Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes -Market (Place), Observational Error, Environmental Policy

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Bruce Morrison

Document Summary

In all societiestwo classes of people appear a class that rules and a class that is ruled. The first class, always the less numerous, performs all political functions, monopolizes power and enjoys the advantages that power brings, whereas the second, the more numerous class, is directed and controlled by the first. Its members are selected by virtue of their economic, political or ideological resources. Class conflict is the commanding facet of all societies after primitive communism. Public-private partnerships in economic development; reform of the welfare state through managed welfarism, and, reinventing government through decentralization and the opening-up of government. Epistemic community theory at the international level; the statecraft approach at the macro- level; the policy network approach at the sub-sectoral level and urban regime theory at the city level. Michels thoughts on the nature of elite structures, as it emphasizes the ominance of the leadership over the rank and file membership.