second lecture
concepts
institutions - regime types
	feudal - tends to be low tech, monarchical or depends on divine right, tends to have nobles that the monarch consults, absolute monarchies don't tend to last long
	authoritarian - dictatorship, autocracy (don't tend to last long, totalitarian), oligarchy, 1-party system, military, theocracy, 
	democratic - parliament, republican, presidential, technocratic (unce), bureaucracy, constitutional, direct, monarchical (aka constitutional monarchy), representative

political culture
	almond and verba (people) - came up with typologies, wanted to see what people believed about polotics, interactions that occurred, 1950's (post WWII context), three basic cultures using awareness, engagement: parrochial (not engaged or informed), subject (know a lot, no engagement), participant (know and engaged), what about the bureaucrats that don't know what they're doing, but are very engaged?
	social cleavages (unce) - demographics, geographic divisions (N/S, E/M/W), socioeconomic class (education, working class, occupation), race/ethnicity, religion, age, sex/gender, residency/national origin, sexual orientation
		SC reinforce each other across certain lines, can also weaken with cross-cutting

citizen interaction
	each other
	gov't - how do peoople relate to government in concrete way, happy/unhappy, what do they do? elections, protest, communication (letters, meetings, lobbying), participation, petitions, social movements, interest groups, political parties, boycotts/civil disobedience, 


definition of a country varies widely
anarchists reject a head/primary authority
ramble ramble ramble about anarchists and how it's bad

how do you get from one form of gov't to an other? viva la revolucion!, external force (US in Iraq...), what else?

awareness - what do people know about politics, etc
engagement - how much are people involved with politics, etc

PC is not static