Comparative Politics

• The policy of colonizing other countries
• (Literally establishing empires)

Term to talk about economic, social, cultural and technological forces affecting events in countries

The decision made by a state that define what it will do

The richest countries with advanced economies and liberal states

One with the capacity and the political will to make and implement effective public policy

All individuals and institutions that make public policy whether they are in government or not

• Theory that young middle class voters are likely to support new issues
• Feminism
• Enviromentalism

Philosophies or attitudes that stress the importance of extend in the power or support for a nation

The selling off of state owned companies

Right wing regimes often drawing on the racist philosophies in countries

A key concept stressing the degree to which people accept the regime

The principle that legal rather than arbitrary and personal decisions determines what happens

The part of the government of technical experts who remain from administration to administration

Economic policy that stresses a limited government role

• The rights to do things
• Right to vote (African Americans)

British social theorist of the seventeenth century who emphasized a STRONG STATE

• Leading democratic and liberal theorist who stressed
• Life
• Liberty
• Pursuit of property

One without the capacity and the political will to make and implement effective public policy

Regime in which the state has all but total power

• The institutions and practices that endure from government to government
• Such as constitution order in democracy

• 1. Territory
• 2. Sovereignty
• 3. Population
• 4. Legitimacy
• 5. Capacity
• 6. Autonomy
• 7. Bureaucracy

• Elected officials
• Free and fair election
• Inclusive suffrage
• Right to run for office
• Freedom of expression
• Access to alternative info
• Associational autonomy

• Schmiter "One election is always the best for Democracy
• Mc Garby Should be fair and free

Everyone eligible should be allowed to vote ( South Africa )

China & Cuba restricting GOOGLE

1961 S. Africa Legislature stopping large groups to assemble