POLS 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ideal Class Group, Structuration Theory
13 Mar 2017
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Ch 7 institutions and states book notes. Institutions - regular patterns of behavior that provide stability and predictability to social life, some are informal with no formally laid down rules the family, social classes, kinship group, etc. Duverger"s law stated that the first-past-the-post electoral systems produce two-party systems. Structuration refers to the complex of factors that both constrain and also provide resources for changes in the operation of institutions and the system as a whole. Can range from level of economic development through regional or class group activity, to the behavior of individual political actors. Institutions play a vital role in structuring political behavior: political, economic, and social factors provide structuration in political life and determine particular outcomes, structure and agency perform complimentary and contrasting functions in determining outcomes. State the state is sovereign, its institutions are public, it is based upon being legitimate, it is in the business of demonization, and it covers a particular territorial area.
