POLS-101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Weimar Republic, Canada, Province Of Canada
20 Nov 2018
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Political science ---> international relations ---> non-state actors. Canadian politics ---> studying institutions of canada (parliament, judiciary) and processes of how laws are made and are in canada. Political philosophy ---> political theory (studying political philosophers like plato, Comparative politics ---> studies the differences and the similarities between states (women"s equality in spain vs the equality in another country): also studies the relationship between the rich and poor countries (global north and global south). Municipal government ---> local government and politics within cities. politics comes from the greek word polis (like policy, police, polity). In the greek days, this was the highest form of human organization. It includes a defined territory (like athens) with a constitution with rules that govern the way people run the city-states. Each polis has: constitution, territory, citizens (of the polis). Politics is the making of collective decisions for the community/society/group involving the exercise of power.
