Semana 2A Regímenes políticos

Hello, how are you? This week we continue working with the texts in the toolbook. We will be studying and deepening the analysis of the content related to the concept of political regime, democracy, polyarchy, moments of transition, federalism and also populism. The first thing we have to take into account to analyze the concept of

political regime is that it is a concept that we in this subject consider one of the most important conceptual tools that will run throughout the study of what will be this first part of the first three units. The political regime is a broad concept, an abstract concept, and we are going to take the meaning that

political science gives to the political regime, uh, understanding it as a set of rules that will regulate how power is accessed, but also how it is exercised. And this is not insignificant because the political regime is a polysemous concept, that is to say, it has different variations, it can be understood in different ways, and we opted in

this subject for this conceptualization which will help us to study the entire academic path of the subject and the proposal that we make to you for the study of Ix. Um, we're going to see in this also that there is a specific need when we use this concept of political regime related to the levels

of abstraction. Uh, if we consider the political regime as a set of tools or rules that regulate access to and the exercise of power, we will be using a conceptualization that manifests a high degree of abstraction. Because? Because it will help us to study many cases, but what it wo n't be useful for is being

more specific, because it will always tend to be something more general. So, the challenge when we are analyzing different political regimes is to be able to work with specific criteria that are both necessary and sufficient to establish a differentiation or to include or exclude different cases. In this sense, political science will use, you will