Final Key Terms Flashcards
Collective challenges with common purpose and sustained interactions with elites and authorities
Sydney Tarrow’s view of social movements
Sustained challenges in the name of disadvantaged groups to power holders throug public display
Charles Tilly’s definition of social movements
Repertoire of Action
How social movements operate and work to make their goals known ie. parades, marches, flash mobs
Political Process/Opportunities Model
A model of social movements with states thier success depends upon the political climate they have and the political opportunities they are afforded
Resource Mobilization Model
A model for social movements with predicat their success will be based on how effectively they mobilize/organize people and money (resources) around thier cause
Strong Form Judicial Review
When judicial decisions on thier interpretations of the constitution impact the workings of all other government branche
Legal Model of Judicial Behaviour
States that judges act by and are constrained by the law, thus limiting thier power during decisions/interpretations. However, this is indeterminate.
Section 33
The Notwithstanding Clause
Section 15
Equality of consideration without discrimination on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion
Section 36(2)
The Section outlining Equalization Payments
Section 38
The 7/50 rule -> House, Senate plus 7 provs with 50%
Section 41
All provinces and House and Senate agreeing
Section 28
Ensures the equality of men and women without discrimination before the law
Section 52
The Supremacy of the Constitution, which is interpreted as giving the Supreme Court the ability to interpret the Charter
Bill of Rights
Deifenbaker, 1960, Statuatory, Parliamentary legislation ensuring non discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin
Federalism
Political structure, needs atleast 2 levels of government and a guarantee of autonomy between those levels, thus requireing a decentralized government
Benedict Anderson on Nation
An imagined community made in the mids of its members
Horizontal Fiscal Imbalance
The disparity in fiscal capacity between provinces
Regionalism
The territorialization of politics
Fiscal Capacity
The capacity of the provinces to raise revenues, through taxes and natural resources
Sovreignty
The concept of a state’s supreme authority over its members
The White Paper
A 1969 announcement of policy intention written by the Trudea government which sought to do away with previous legislation regarding Indigenous rights and treaties to fully assimilate them into Canadian society
Multiculturalism
The notion of a diverse population within a state or nation, whihc was made a part of the federal policy agenda with the Trudeau government in 1971. Multiculturalism was entrenched as a supreme part of Canadian identity with the 1982 Constitution Act
Neo Institutionalism
Paul Pross’ model for interest groups,w hich states that there is a complex and fluid community fo interest groups with larger organization at the centre, and peripheral (lesser) interest groups whihc come and go.
Corporatism
When interest groups are organized into a rigid hierarchical structure in order to act with the government to achieve thier interests
The Logic of Collective Action
Posited by Mancur Olson, a theory that states majority diffuse interests will not be mobilized because of a free-rider mentality in the population
Schattschnieder’s theory of politics
Sees them as a mobilization of bias, thus there is never a neutral party in politics
Pluralism
regards interest groups, states that there is a highly competitive field of views, whihc the government must act as a neutral arbiter of
Loss Aversion
The theory that people will feel the effects of losing something more than they will the effects of gaining the same thing
Rational Choice Theory
Posits that people will make decisions that will benefit them and thier self interests
External Inducement
Part of Olson’s logic of collective action, which seeks to explain why people would organize around public goods, as they become non-exclusive. He states that external inducements are the private benefit people would experience from organizing.
