PSC 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Voter Fatigue, 6 Years, Transact
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Institutions- provide the structures and processes by which the authority of principles are communicated to agents as well as through which the agents are made accountable to those principles. Ex) citizens -as voters (principals), make their preferences know via the electoral system (an institutional structure), to send politicians (agents) to serve in various aspects of government, such as the legislature and executive branch (other institutions). The book- the books looks at how one set of institutional choices, such as choosing presidentialism over parliamentarianism, can limit and influence the institutional paths subsequently taken. Political engineering- the application of the principles of political science to a specific set of problems. Ex) the philadelphia constitutional convention of 1787 (alexander. Hamilton and james madison were interested in taking their practical and theoretical knowledge of the political world and applying it to the problems facing the us in its political operations.
