[POLS 242] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 23 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 242
• Professor: John Rapley

Document Summary

Material inequality and political instability go hand in hand. Criminologists found that widening inequality leads to a ride in crime rates. Lately, support for the inequality-instability hypothesis has come from neoclassical economists. Richard easterlin what drives human happiness is not absolute but relative levels of prosperity: is it better to be a rich man in a poor society than a poor man in a rich society. Friedrich nietzche humans derive more satisfaction from gaining power over the lives of themselves and others than they do from gaining power over material objects: international relations theory. In the documentary life and debt encompasses the current radical thinking of globalization. Jamaica is portrayed as a victim rather than an agent. Neoliberal policies have been the effect of raising aggregate income but skewing its distribution, therefore causing a rise in political instability and volatility, which in turn, is undermining the viability of the neoliberal regime.