POG 110 Lecture 8: pog110 midterm exam notes

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 110
• Professor: Matthew Flisfeder

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Politics: is the activity by rival claims are settled by public authorities. Power: the ability to influence what happens. State has three characteristics: coercion, authority, influence, it has territorial boundaries, the ability to wield public authority via complex public, has the legitimate use if physical force in its order? institutions. Whose interest does politics work for 4 answers: pluralism, class analysis, feminism, post-modernism earned to settle it down, examples protest. Government is considered only when consent by the governed is. Governments held up by force are totalitarian regimes: suppress all dissent sin the name of one supreme goal. Public protests or rebellions occur; government may have to use force. Dec 7 2009, 20 protestors arrested during a green space. Feb 13 2013, 48 people locked themselves to the. January 2013 provincial judge publically rebuked a police officer for not carrying out the terms of two injunctions he had ordered. Governments that rely on force and threat are not stable.