Poli Sci.
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- Shively
- Power= the ability of one person to choose another to do what one wishes by whatever means
- Thomas Hobbes
- People are agressive, tolerant anti social
- Aristotle
- People are social and intersted in others
- Social contract theorists
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John Locke, Jean Jaques Rosseau
STATE of NATURE=STATE of WAR - Hobbes
- People running around on their own stealing, threatening, killing
- Manifest power
- based on observable actions by A to get B to do what A wants
- Implicit power
- no observable words or actions to get B to do A's bidding
- Radicals
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Power has many dimensions
1.) Observable
2.)Decisions made about what is going to be discussed in politics (deciding what gets decided and when)
3.)Thought control (brainwashing, conditioning)
4.)Michel Foulcault- Power/Knowledge - IDEOLOGIES
- - organized set of ideas that helps us make sense out of politics for ourselves and to present arguments affectively in public
- Liberalism
- highest goal of society is for individuals to develop their capacities to highest extent
- Class
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- group that shares relationship with ‘means of production’
Owner- (CAPITALISTS) ‘upper class’
Workers- (LABOR) live by selling labor upon the means of production for less that its value - Authority and Sovereignty
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(the authority of a state to govern itself or another)
Authorities is a special kind of power based on a general agreement
1.)Person or group issue certain commands
2.)Those commands should be obeyed - Legitimacy and sources
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collective feeling that the state has right to undertake actions that it has
Sources
1.)Legitimacy by results “train runs on timeâ€
2.)Legitimacy by habit
3.)Association with others
4.)Procedures
5.)People (you)= supreme source of government authority - Characteristics of people in a democracy
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1.)Tolerance
2.)Participation- vote and letters
3.)Sustain a high level of interest in politics
4.)Citizens are supportive of state they live under - Non- democracies (Autocracies)
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1.)Military government
2.)One party state
3.)“Court†politics - Nation
- group of people who are bound together and recognize a similarity among themselves because of a common culture or language
- State
- Political unit that has sovereign authority within its borders
- Constitutions
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rules by which power is distributed among members of a state
1.)Decide where power will be located EX: all power in central government - Unitary government-
- one that keeps all power centrally
- Federated government
- - local authorities have monopoly on certain political decisions
- CONSTITUTIONALISM
- degree to which leaders adhere to rules that are written in the constitution