POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: David Easton, Radical Change, Antoine Destutt De Tracy
12 Jan 2017
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Word politics comes from ancient greece, refers to anything to do with civic affairs/public matters. Aristotle was earliest recorded man to use the word political man is a political animal. Aristotle called politics the the master science of the good . Bismarck known as the iron chancellor, key role in the unification of germany in the. Described politics as the art of the possible. Politics is made up of two words: poly- many and tics- which are bloodsucking insects . Among political scientists, the academic definition of politics by david easton is the authoritative allocation of value . Everything you do is effected/regulated by society: taxes, laws, etc. Wlm king- canada"s longest serving p. m. - degree in political economy. Any systematic scheme of political ideas is an ideology. Estates that wanted radical change sat on the left; estates that wanted things to stay the same sat on the right; created left wing and right wing in politics.
