Lecture ?, April 10th: Review Session

• Indeterminacy: There is no one outcome

  • Laws are not always clear, so judges have significant power

• Weak form judicial review vs strong form judicial review:

  • Judicial review = Judges having justification to make decisions

  • Strong: Between legislatures and judiciaries, judges are stronger

  • Weak: Between legislatures and judiciaries, judges are weaker

• Individuals decisions in litigating vs lobbying:

  • Baskets of explainations

  • Always overlap, distinctions get messy up close

  • Hard to know one versus the other

  • Economic factors, cost versus benefits

  • Imposing burdens, costs (Interest based arguments)

  • Institutions as rules, parliament vs presidential

  • Rules are different based on how legislative powers are structured

  • Rules about elections: Institutional

  • Conceptions about equality tends to be a hard basket

Neoinstitutionalism vs corperatism

• Neoinstitutionalism: Organizations are organized into different networks

• Corperatism: In the context of POLI222 refers to hierarhcy; govs states, interest groups organized by sectors and heirarchies

Lobbying for specific ethnic groups vs unions:

• When thinking about what it is you’re trying to study, or look at various factors

• One explaination: Immigration act was modified, explains shift of migration policies to restrictions. Look to who is doing the lobbying. Strength story or political power story?