POLI SCI 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Modernization Theory, Comparative Advantage, Oligopoly
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Lipset: wealthier countries have a lower level of inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. A system of economic policy-making which includes a limited number of associations representing business and labor, and prominently featuring the state, is called: Fuels alienation among people from different parts of the world. Normative approach: meant to give claims about what is desireable, what should be. Sen: no democracy ever experienced a famine because of the alarm role of the press and political opposition. False: according to barro, the most important precondition for democracy to take hold is setting up the right democratic institutions. Institutions can be thought of as rules that constrain people"s behavior. Institutions vary from country to country in terms of their norms, rules, and specific functions. Institutions can not only be built by states and maintained by a state"s monopoly use of force. Institutions are exemplified by the military, tax laws, elections, and the bureaucracy.
