[POLSCI 2D03] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 27 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Democracy-contested notion: cannot compare the us and canadian democracy in the context of who is more democratic because all democracies are different. Democracy is relative to the country itself. Is canada a democracy or not?-exam question. Might be an issue with our democracy because only 60% feel the need to vote. Theoretical approaches: societal, pluralism & elite pluralism, marxism/political economy, feminism/gender, individual, rational choice, institutional. Institutional approaches: state based view of politics, structure and agency argument, formal and informal institutions. !4: rules that govern the space in which political actors can operate. Thursday, september 8, 2016: politics is driven by present and past decisions, path dependency, politics as a web/network, critique, structural, party discipline- not on the constitution. Legislative seems to answer to the executive branch yet it is suppose to function the. Acts only through the governor general;bound by constitutional convention.
