Institutions and the state

Question 1

What Describes an Institution?

Answer 1

A pattern of repeated behaviour that adds predictability to social life.

Question 2

What is a formal Institution

Answer 2

A codified set of rules ex. Government institutions, political parties more formally constructed and legally based.

Question 3

What is an informal institution?

Answer 3

A set of unwritten rules that arise do to social attitudes and preferences. Ex. ethnic group.

Question 4

What three things do Institutions do?

Answer 4

1)Structure and constraint behaviour
2)Provide tools and resources
3)Help to solve issues that require collective action and cooperation

Question 5

What two ideas summarize the Structure and Agency debate?

Answer 5

Structure may have an impact on political outcomes but Agencies also shape political outcome

Question 6

What are three components to Giddeon’s Structration theory?

Answer 6

System
structure
structration

Question 7

In Giddeons model system refers to?

Answer 7

The political system

Question 8

In Giddeons model structure refers to?

Answer 8

Political institutions

Question 9

In Giddeons model Structration is?

Answer 9

The factors that provide resources for change in the operation of the political system

Question 10

What does state capacity refer to?

Answer 10

The ability of a government to administer and it’s territory effectively.

Question 11

Describe “The state”

Answer 11

Highest level of sovereignty that a region / territory can achieve. The state it’s self can be described as numerous institutions working together to maintain stability and order

Question 12

What 4 ways does state capacity come in?

Answer 12

Extractive capacity
steering capacity
legitimation capacity
coercive capacity

Question 13

Who said “War made the state and the state made war”?

Answer 13

Tilly, 1975

Question 14

When did the modern state emerge?

Answer 14

The 17th century

Question 15

What are some consequences to state development?

Answer 15

When modern states arise permanent beuracracies tend to follow

Question 16

What are some negative but key aspects of the modern state?

Answer 16

1)Impersonal
2)Rule-based
3)Goal oriented
4)merit and performance based promotion

Question 17

What was the point of colonialism? What were some of its impacts?

Answer 17

Was meant to be extractive and provide more resources for the colonizing nation. Because of this Europeon bureaucratic structure as well as their institutions were adopted by post colonial nations.

Question 18

What is a patrimonial state?

Answer 18

A state in which the ruler claims the realm or territory as their own personal property - problematic ideology low key

Question 19

Why did countries adopt the western state model for themselves? What did this create?

Answer 19

To compete with Europe , it created a state system that branched globally

Question 20

What are the two functions or roles of the modern state?

Answer 20

Internal - the state acts as a tool

External - the state manages relations with other states and protects it’s population from forge in affairs

Question 21

What 3 things do string states have the capacity to do?

Answer 21

Provide human security
Posses Predictable ways of adjusting
freedom of participation tolerance for dissent civil and human rights

Question 22

What is law boundedness a major factor of?

Answer 22

The idea of the modern state

Question 23

Before the state what existed as the source of law?

Answer 23

Religion or clan groups

Question 24

What is legal positivism?

Answer 24

It is summarized as the western perception that law is what the state says it is

Question 25

Secularism

Answer 25

The idea and practice of separating legislative powers from religion to the state

Question 26

What is the rule of law?

Answer 26

The rule that society is expected to obey the law and no one member of its ranks resides above it.

Question 27

What are legislators?

Answer 27

Law making bodies

Question 28

What 3 things do laws determine?

Answer 28

Criminal behaviour
punishments for criminals
Impartial rules for adjudication of disputes

Question 29

What are the two uses for a constitution?

Answer 29

Denotes the overall structure of a political system

It outlines the institutions of the state the procedure for changing them and the basic rights and obligations of it’s citizens

Question 30

When did Canada get it’s constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms?

Answer 30

1982, when the Canada act was implemented

Question 31

What did the Canada act do?

Answer 31

Made it so that Canada could implement its own laws without having to get parliamentary approval from Britain.

Question 32

What is Judical review

Answer 32

The ability to challenge government decisions through the court

Question 33

What do all States have?

Answer 33

Courts specifically designed for the adjudication of constitutional laws.

Question 34

What is federalism

Answer 34

It is the division of power between and responsibility to different authorities in states.

Question 35

what are three reasons to implement federalism

Answer 35

Geographical locations - local givernmanets make regional control easier

Diversity of population - Guarantees minority groups government representation

Asymmetrical Federalism - Denotes certain level of autonomy to certain regions