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- Causal Relationships
- Small End Comparison
- Economic Approach
- Assume that people's politics are based on their class position
- Political outcomes based on distribution of economic power
- Ex:Democracy made possible through industrial growth
- Con: Economic approach sometimes underestimates noneconomic interests and drives
- Con: People like money, but also other things. Power. Security. Culture. Religion
- Con: Doesn't take politics into account
- Assume that people's politics are based on their class position
- Cultural Apporach
- Ideas/Values at the middle
- Project the assumption that everyone functions economically the same
- Muslim voters in pakistan should function differently from catholics in the US
- Culture is a cognitive lense that shapes the way we see the world
- Max weber argues culturally for capitalism in terms of protestantism
- Cultures Change Slowly. Politics change quickly.
- The Cultural Approach has difficulty explaining it
- Ideas/Values at the middle
- Institutional Approach
- The rules procedures organizations that structure political life. The rules of the political game
- Determine parameters of the political game
- How the rules of the game affect political behaviour and outcome
- These rules often matter MORE than Economic and cultural conditions
- The rules procedures organizations that structure political life. The rules of the political game
- Structural Approaches
- Volunteerist/leadership Approach
- Takes individuals and their needs into account.
- Takes individuals and their needs into account.
- Which approach is most important. Structuralist or Volunteerist?
- Small End Comparison
- There are exceptions to every theory
- No labs except the real world. It's messy
- Accidents
- Many factors difficult to account for
- Don't throw out a theory just because it doesn't work in a specific case!
- Think of Theories in Probabilistic terms
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