class 7 Flashcards
what is the constitutional framework of institutions?
a. provide stability
b. enduring constitutions are considered good
c. western constitutions (1st world countries last thrice the time African or Latin America do
4. the amendment processes are different (difficulty, culture and procedure)
what is an informal institution?
socially shared rules, normally unwritten, that are created, communicated, and enforced outside officially sanctioned channels
explain the iceberg (Andrews) theory.
formal institutions are the tip of the iceberg and informal are the base of it (informal institutions sustain the formal institutions)
explain the typology of relationships between informal and formal institutions.
- (outcomes: convergent), (effective formal institution: complementary), (ineffective formal institution: substitutive)
- (outcomes: divergent (against)), (effective formal institution: accommodating), (ineffective formal institution: competetive)
explain four curious cases regarding complementary institutionalism
- Nigeria: instability with independent supreme court means that some part of the institutions are working with compliance = stable environment
- Kenya’s promotion of strong anticorruption reform (highly diffused)
- Peru’s feeble parties (disappearance of ideas when win), informal organizations rallying up voters
- India’s caste
what is a neo-patrimonial institutions?
combines patrimonial and formal institutions. could be linked to “ corruption, institutional decay, communication breakdown, authoritarian rule, development failure, economic dysfunction, poor growth, civil and political unrest and especially armed conflicts
REREAD DATA REGARDING AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA
what is necessary?
states
what is the role of the state?
they function as an asymmetrical relationship where institutions and the State are affected by Politics
what does the state do?
The state is the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory
what are weber’s characteristics of the state?
a. differentiated state of institutions and personnel
b. centrality
c. territorially demarcated area
d. monopoly of binding rule-making
e. rational-legal principles
f. monopoly of physical violence
what is the definiton of a state according to young?
State is an ensemble of affective orientations, images, and expectations imprinted in the minds of its subjects, formalized by by territorial sovereignty and citizenship, further anchored in society by its symbols.
