PO110 Study Guide - Al-Qaeda
Document Summary
The whole decision-making apparatus of the state; the constitutional principles and arrangements according to which government decisions are made; the fundamental rules of the game. Regime is applied to the comparative study of different social formations. It is an organized governance experience, a form of rule, etc. It contains four spheres: state, society, market, and global insertion. Attributes of one regime type are often found in another. Democratic aspects of authoritarian regimes, for example, should not be ignored. It is helpful to think of concrete regimes as composites or hybrids, both unique and comparable. As the processes of globalization accelerate, variations in contemporary political regimes are both expanding and contracting. We should expect regime diversity and more regime composites. Citizen: without/ no society/ no state (multi- culture) Removing an old government system and replacing it with something new. Regime change can remove threats (al-qaeda, weapons of mass destruction)
