Pol201 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This lecture discusses the shift toward the promotion of free market principles as a way to increase wealth globally. It discusses the cuts to social spending and the lowered prices of trade, promoting the widespread use of cheap labor to produce goods for the core countries at even lower rates. It also looks at the increase of wealth, and how it has been produced highly unevenly.

This lecture looks at impacts of modernization and ISI in Africa, and the political and economic impacts of it.

This lecture is a continued discussion on the neoliberal movement, and how its proposals were created and enacted by the US government. It also talks about the emerging importance of debating closed vs open economies, as opposed to left vs right wing ideology.

This lecture looks at core-periphery economies, where the core nations depend on the periphery for primary goods as they produce secondary goods, trapping them into a volatile economic position. Where the core promotes modernization, the periphery is theorized to be unable to achieve it, due to the low and volatile prices of their primary goods.

This document includes an assignment done on how well political parties and interest groups help new democracies establish democratization.