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Capitalist states Characteristics- From Marxist perspective the states in these countries can be considered as instrument of capitalist class From Emmanuel Wallenstein's point of view, these are core countries. Idea of laissez faire state Also described as “night watchman “ state by Robert Nozick. From elitist perspective, C wright mills Says these are led by power elites. Robert dahl use the pluralist perspective to suggest that the states can be called as polyarchies/deformed polyarchies The parties are pragmatic and institutionalized. They have internal democracies as well. Changing trends Nature of state in capitalist countries are shaped by the changing requirements of capitalism itself. Started as laisez faire states on the ideas of locke, Adam Smith and Malthus, Ricardo Laissez Faire Changed to welfare state to protect capital arm from socialist revolution Welfare state based on the ideas of Rawls, Dworkin, Keynes, Galbraith Dominated till 1970s. Then started rolling back of...

Definition: It is a sub discipline of pol science that focuses  on the study of countries' political systems , Governments, institutions and constitutions across the world As old as pol philosophy , Aristotle is father as he compared 158 constitution and gave theory of constitutions. It was then used by Machiavelli, Tocqueville ( compared USA and France) , Montesquieu in his spirit of laws. Factors for its emergence- Behaviouralism after ww2 —> David Easton—-> wanted to make pol sci as pure science Rise of authoritarianism in the form of fascism,Nazism and communism that political theories were not able to explain. Post world war new post colonial states emerged where the there was a consider Difference between text and context. Since these were prismatic societies, Their politics was too complex to be analysed through traditional normative methods Traditional CP- before WW2 Legal-institutional approach - Study of Western countries and their constitution but since their cultu...