POLSCI 1AB3 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Senate Of Canada, Responsible Government, Province Of Canada
12 Oct 2018
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Fall 2018
Political Science 2D03
• A itrodutio to istitutios deliitig the pratie of itizeship i Caada ad of the
politial alues the eod
• Need to define:
o Institutions
o Citizenship
• Consider values
• Marshall 9: Citizeship is a status estoed o those ho are full eers of a
community. All who possess the status are equal with respect to the rights and duties with
hih the status is edoed
• Issues: Who possesses the status? What is included in the status?
• Marshall sees the otet of itizeship as deelopig oer tie, fro iil rights liert of the
person, freedom of speech, thought and faith, the right to own property and conclude valid
otrats, ad the right to justie through politial rights rights to partiipate i the eerise
of politial poer
• Ad oto soial rights rights...to lie the life of a iilized eig aordig to the stadards
preailig i the soiet
• Enduring tension between the equality of citizenship, and the inequality of a growing capitalism
Division of the Economy and the Political
• The Political
o Protection of rights
o Enforcement of contracts
o Protet puli goods atioal defee,eights ad easures, fair opetitio
• The Economic
o Ability to ejo oes propert
o Decisions about allocation of social resources and economic surplus, seen as apolitical
o Forall free laour/laour as a oodit
Marshall p.: For oder otrat is essetiall a agreeet etee e ho are free ad
equal i status, though ot eessaril i poer
• What if political rights were used to reduce inequalities in power?
Democracy and Liberty
• Malolse ad Mers preset these as regie priiples that are alaed to proide
coherence
• But the history of development of Western political regimes is one of conflict between them,
and of finding ways to incorporate the democratic claims of the masses into existing
liberal/capitalist institutions
Institutions
• The rules of the game?
• Marland and Wesley: A structure that defines and constrains behvaiour within a political system
• Often seen as aligning competing interests towards mutually beneficial ends or as increasing
social efficiency
• Alteratiel, the residue of soial oflits: the rules of the gae reflet past oflits, ad
privilege certain outcomes and interests over others
• In this view, institutions are power-laden: they enable the normalization of unequal social
power
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• A problem with this alternative view is it does not grant room for unintended outcomes
Last time
• Citizenship as a status shared with others, giving rise to rights and responsibilities
o An object of political conflict over the course of centuries
o At first civil rights: protection of individuals and a new order of private property against
an older feudal order (division of the political and the economic)
o Political and social rights follow, creating tensions between equality of citizenship and
inequalities in a capitalist economy
• Institutions
o Rules of the game, constrain action
o In constraining action, they are likely to favour some interests and outcomes over others
▪ Ex: election spending laws, voter registration, drawing constituencies
o Alteratiel, the residue of soial oflits: the rules of the gae reflet past
conflicts, and privilege certain outcomes and interests over others
o In this view, institutions are power-laden: they enable the normalization of unequal
social power
o A problem with this alternative view is it does not grant much room for unintended
outcomes
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• ‘egies hae priiples uderlig their arhiteture
o We may even agree with these principles
• But as social scientists we need to understand how those principles arose from conflict and
compromise, and how they continue to bias the system
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Document Summary
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