CPO 3703- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Could also be waiting in line, norms of courtship. Roberts rules of order newly revised (guide book: agenda control, parliamentary procedures, electoral rules, organization rules and bylaws. Social norms: political scientists have differences of opinions about what (cid:1688)counts(cid:1689) as an institution. Carey introduces us to the concept of a parchment institution: the syllabus, constitutions, (cid:1688)brick and mortar(cid:1689) institutions, electoral rules, procedures, carey says the parchment institutions are neither necessary nor sufficient. Just the act of writing them down matters little. Institutions must be self reinforcing: the act of writing down rules creates mutual expectations for behavior, under these circumstances, the institutions are worth more than the paper on which they are written. Studying institutions: formal institutions have a long history in political science, to understand where we are, need to understand where we came from (cid:1688)old(cid:1689) institutionalism in comparative politics, how a bill becomes law, comparative politics. Two intellectual counter-currents: 1950-1960s, social choice and new institutional economics, the behavioral revolution.
