- When you look at two very different counties look at the SIMILARITIES (ex: Iran and Great Britain)
- Impuraical(usually multiple choice questions)- questions of fact or observations -answerws can be refuted, mathematical (ex: Do Iranians hold elections on a regular basis? Amount of voters?, etc.)l must be able to measure
- Normative (usually essay questions)-Issues that require4 some value judgement; may ask for comarisons or value judgemnets; don't buy assumpton of question, reject it sometimes; validity of these statements cannot be empirically tested since they are based on the value judgements.
- Nation-tribe or culture
- state-(accoring to Max aver) provides institutions, has many nations (any sub0culture is a nation); states is the hierarchy (ex: USA national gove3rnment is state but each state may be considered a nation). To be a state you need a population, a defined territory, sovereignty (n order to have sovereignty you need to be able to cede sovereignty),
- political system-set of institutions and agencie sthat implement goals of a scoiety
- governments-the policy-making arts of the such systems
- inputs from (domestic) environment to system-->outouts
- -domestic economy(Input) pol (output)
Globalization
- expands sovereignty of some countries in some ways and decreases that of the country being "invaded". ex: McDonald's, Disney
- process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, ad governments of different states
- a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology
- this process has effects on the environment, culture, political systems, economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world
- proponents of globalization argus that it allows poor countries and their citizenbs to develop economically and raise their standards of living
- opponents of globalization claim that unrestricted international free market has benefited multinational coorporations in the Western world at the expense of local enterprises, local cultures, and common people takes away true meaning of Americans, Chinese, British, etc.
- economists agree that globalization is driven by two forces
2. development in policy (must occur domestically, we have to open free trade and politicians must vote in every coutntry, taking away their own power by letting this happen)
- it is the government policy that has changed that has allowed globalization to cement in society. Ex: Nigeria should nationalize oil and kick Shell out of Nigeria and share the wealth and sell to U.S.
- protectionism, capital controls and barriers for human migration spread from country to country
- inputs-the way average citizens annd the group, organizations affect political life
- policies-regulatory, redistribute, assertive and symbolic actions by government
- feedback-the way in which peoples reaction to policy helps shape the next hase of political life
- all foprms of government have feedback
- from the people it just may occur through different method, through different time, and different results
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