POLI 200- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 200
• Professor: Manuel Balan

Document Summary

Democracies change to regain support from populations (revolutions) Static: after industrial revolution democracies froze electoral incentives. > parties only change when there"s electoral reform. Frozen around particular social change, after memorable event. i. e, democratization, elites. Industrialization cleavage of the working class versus the owners. Parties are going to be stable because it takes a huge/historical change to change parties: institutional changes. Kind of resources a party already had -> their background. Built capacities what they can maintain in their political scene. Priming of issues (making something the most important* issue) Obama: we will fight terrorism : provoke endogenous change. i. e. try to take things from green platform to take their voters. Focus on balance issues (we won"t be corrupt) No party will say it is against economic growth. This creates a divide some parties are better for social issues, other economic, etc. New democracies -> more volatile: do not know who they want to support, causes many parties to emerge.