POL 607 Lecture Notes - Boogie 2Nite, Ultimate Power
6 Mar 2013
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Politics can be seen as a decision making mechanism for society. Everything in society and human life is governed by politics. Politics can be seen as a system for conflict resolution. Values in the sense of things: things like wealth, health, status. If big corporate leaders call the pm, he surely will pick up and answer the call however if regular citizens make that call, it will not be possible to reach the pm. Corporations does not want government to do something that will hurt their companies: authoritative means it"s done by legislative institutions like government. Philosophers always argued what is the best kind of society. Some writers believe just society is a society where people can live freely and have freedom to say anything, criticize government. Some believe just society has equality, there is no difference between rich and poor, no people on the streets begging for money.
