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2. Government Structures
• What are government structures?
• the basic things that allow
governments to function; like what?
• Legislatures, Courts, Bureaucracies,
etc.
• For example, because all
governments must establish the rules
of acceptable behavior, governments
must have a legislative structure for
creating laws.
• It may take many different forms, but
it will always be there.
• Because laws and decisions must be
implemented, every government must
have an executive or a political
structure
3. Structures or Institutions?
• Structures are generic while
institutions are specific.
• A legislature is a political structure,
name a legislative institution:
• i.e. the British House of Commons
• If a judicial system is a political
structure what would be a judicial
institution?
• i.e. U.S. Supreme Court
• Political institutions are the
organizational structures through
which political power is exercised.
4. Human Nature and Political Institutions
• A society's basic view of
human nature is reflected in
their political institutions.
• What was Madison and the
U.S. Framers’ view of
human nature?
• They were pessimistic about
human nature assumed that
human were self-interested
• That basic perspective is
abundantly clear in basic
construction of U.S. political
institutions.
5. Human Nature and Political
Institutions
• The framers of the U.S. constitution built a
system based on a basic mistrust of human
nature.
• They created a complex set of interlocking
institutions with overlapping responsibilities that
pitted separate portions of the government
against itself.
• Each section jealously guarded its power and
the power of those that supported it and it was
this pursuit of selfish interests that kept the other
sections honest.
6. Human Nature and Political
Institutions
• The U.S. system’s separation of powers is
specifically designed to make it difficult for the
government to infringe on citizens’ rights.
• It prevents bad things from happening, but it
also makes it hard to get much done at all.
• Taking a more positive view of humankind,
other governments are more likely to have
simpler systems that make it far easier to enact
policy.
• For example, in some European democracies
the winning party has a much freer hand in
making changes.
7. The Reality of Political Institutions
• Given the opportunity to craft ideal governmental
institutions from scratch, we would all choose institutions
we believe support our most important values and
traditions; like what kind of values?
• Values like democracy, individual rights, and personal
freedom can all be bolstered and protected, or
weakened and repressed by the types of institutions a
nation uses.
• Similarly, the personal wealth, power, and security of the
leader can be bolstered or impeded by particular types of
institutions.
• Given the personal nature of utopias and the variety of
the people found in every governed society; the push for
compromise quickly takes us away from anyone’s ideal
institutions.
8. Context, Evolution, and the
Unbearable Weight of History
• Nations rarely have an opportunity to install their
ideal institutions from scratch. How do they get
them?
• Most government institutions are not designed
or even intentionally created; they tend to
evolve.
• Even when institutions are rationally and
intentionally designed, nations seldom, if ever,
have anything close to a blank page when they
start creating a government.
• Almost every government’s institutions carry the
legacy of generations.
9. Context, Evolution, and the
Unbearable Weight of History
• What about after a revolution?
• Even revolutions may not lead to dramatic changes in
institutions.
• A nation’s structures may have been imposed upon it by
another source.
• Newly independent colonies often started with political
institutions created by their former colonial masters.
• Even if a nation could plan its structures, it is not
necessarily true that that which is planned will work as
intended in the end.
• Government institutions are shaped by history, culture,
necessity, and circumstance.
• They are always imperfect and they can be hijacked by
those with less than noble intentions
10. Legitimacy, Information, and
Human Nature
• Institutions can enhance the voluntary acceptance of
decisions, policies, choices, or even the leadership as a
whole.
• Governmental institutions can teach and shape public
demands as much as they react to the publics’ wishes or
enact policy.
• The types of institutions we utilize can shape our basic
behavior in our day-to-day lives.
• Governments demanding citizen participation also
demand that citizens be more aware.
• Governments acting paternally are likely to breed
citizens dependent on strong leadership.
• Institutions that hunt down and punish dissent will
generate fear, isolation, and atomization.
11. Choosing Institutions:
Picking a Terrain
• The structures that are put into place will be affected by
the basic political culture.
• According to Sidney Verba, a nation’s political culture is
comprised of “the system of empirical beliefs, expressive
symbols, and values, which defines the situation in which
political action takes place.”[i]
• This political culture can involve religious values,
expectations, morals, ethics, and traditions.
[i] Verba, Sidney, “Comparative Political Culture,” p. 513, in Lucian W. Pye and Sidney Verba
(eds.), Political Culture and Political Development. 1965. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press.
12. Political Culture
•
Comprises the distinguishing
attitudes, habits, and behavior
patterns that characterize a political
community--the ethos of a place (i.e.
freedom or order)
• Agreements on the fundamentals of
Political Culture is important even if
the society is heterogeneous
• Thus, in America, Protestants,
Catholics, Jews, Muslims, atheists,
agnostics, Democrats, Republicans,
independents, African Americans,
whites, Hispanics--these and other
groups all strive to work out
successful patterns of
accommodation because of
agreement on the basic principles of
the U.S. Constitution.
13. Choosing Institutions:
Selecting a Basic Form
• Aristotle identified six basic types of government.
• He noted three good forms and three perverted
forms.
• If the government worked for the benefit of all of
its citizens, Aristotle called it good.
• If it benefited only the ruling class, Aristotle
labeled it a perverted type.
• The other major distinction Aristotle drew among
the governments was the size of the group in
charge.
14. Choosing Institutions:
Selecting a Basic Form
• A nation led by one person could be either a
monarchy (good form) or a dictatorship
(perverted form).
• A government ruled by a few could be either an
aristocracy (good form) or an oligarchy
(perverted form).
• A government led by the many could be either a
polity (good form) or a democracy (bad form).
• In Aristotle’s day democracy was synonymous
with mob rule, that is, everyone acting in her or
his own best interest with little or no regard for
the community.
15. Choosing Institutions:
Selecting a Basic Form
• Some countries that have monarchs do not actually give
them much power.
• A country that does not have a monarch is, according to
one very basic definition, a republic.
• Aristocracy is actually a common feature of democratic
governments, e.g., constitutional courts.
• Democracy is not the only alternative to monarchy and
aristocracy; there are mixed systems.
• Those countries that many think of as democracies also
have some very undemocratic elements involved with
them.
16. Constitutional Features
• Limited or unlimited
government
• Representative government
or direct democracy
• Separation or connection of
powers
• Federalism or unitary
government
17. (De)Centralization of Power:
con-federal, federal, or unitary systems
What are the tradeoffs with more or less
centralization?
Decentralized
• Closer to People
• More Responsive
• Flexible
• Open to Innovation
Centralized
• Uniform Policy
• Equity
• Less Conflict
• Coherent
• Clear Action
Which is Better?
18. Choosing Institutions:
Connect Your Government
• There are essentially three systems
through which the relationship can be
ordered; the unitary system, the federal
system, and the confederal system.
• Most nations don’t choose to have one or
the other.
• The makeup of the nation, its history, its
culture, and its geography tends to
determine the type of structure.
19. Choosing Institutions:
Connect Your Government
• A unitary system is one where sovereignty rests quite
clearly on the shoulders of the national government.
• In a federal system sovereignty is, at least theoretically,
shared between the national and the local government
units.
• In a confederal system the local government units that
have the real power; they have sovereignty.
• The key to the confederal system is that the individual
units within it can defy the national or galactic level of
government. Essentially, every single local unit
effectively has the power to veto any national level
policy.
20. Choosing Institutions:
Connect Your Government
• In reality, nations opt for either a federal or unitary
system.
• Each system has its benefits and its drawbacks.
• Federal systems are more appropriate in large countries
with geographically diverse populations.
• Federal systems also allow local governments to act as
laboratories for the trial of policies before they are used
at the national level.
• Federal systems fit in well in capitalist countries,
because both people and businesses have the capacity
to move; local governments must compete to keep
people and jobs within their borders.
21. Choosing Institutions:
Connect Your Government
• Unitary systems also have their benefits.
• Every citizen in the country is entitled to the same rights
and benefits.
• Unitary systems make it easier to maintain a sense of
national identity.
• Unitary systems tend to run more smoothly because
policy is easier to implement and less effort is spent
sorting out who should do what.
• Regulatory consistency across a larger entity also has
economic benefits, since one product can be sold across
the whole nation and efficiencies of scale can be more
easily capitalized upon.