Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
8 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Paul Kennedy's theory of why the great powers declined? |
rising commitments → imperial overstretch·
institutionalization of success factors →rigidity· combination against dominant power → failure |
|
|
Easton's contribution to political change |
-Functionalism -all political systems have boundaries and steps of decision making. |
|
|
Easton's 5 steps of political change. |
1. changes in the political environment cause demands for action 2. competition/pressures cause government to make changes to environment 3. the decision impacts upon the environment and makes changes 4. the impacts upon the environment gathers support or increased demands (feedback 5. This feedback causes the cycle to return to step 1 |
|
|
Tilly's view on political change? |
-political systems can withstand pressure as long as they have coercive power and are willing to use it. |
|
|
4 theorists and their theories in political change |
-Kennedy - states fail because of overstretch -Easton - state is self-stabilising - respond to demands and support of policy. -Tilly - political systems will withstand political conflict if they possess and use coercion -Marx and Engels - class struggle incites political change, economic struggle incites social change and the proletariat will always up rise and overthrow |
|
|
Huntington's definition of revolution.... |
“a rapid, fundamental and violent change in the dominantvalues and myths of a society, in its political institutions, social structure,leadership, and government activity and policies”
|
|
|
Robert Dix, regimes (un)likely to have a revolutioin |
LIKELY - isolative, corrupt and personalist regimes UNLIKELY - military acting in institutional capacity in alliance with other key elites. |
|
|
Theda Skocpol theory on revolution |
- countries succumb to revolution at wartime -Russia china and france study -country forced to raise taxes to fund war -hits poorest hardest -if lose war (fail to compete internationally) there will be an uprising of the proletariat (as marx and engels identify) |
