PAP 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Old Age Security, Ideal Type, Proletariat
23 Feb 2020
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The managerial practices and institutional values by which officials will enact the will of sovereign authority. Set of administrative practices that provides services through the body of officials. Power the ability to authorize, influence, or coerce the behaviour of someone else. Politics is the authoritative allocation of values. About who gets what, when and how . Exemplified in public policies, i. e pension policy. No longer individual reasonability, but collective welfare. Public pensions: universal payments based on general tax revenue: old age security, guaranteed income supplement. The government those individuals that make and enforce public decisions that are binding upon the whole community. States monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Legitimacy the acceptance of an actor"s right to rule. Legitimacy is not coercion (although both are mechanisms through which power is exercised) Traditional long established custom or habit (always been this way) Direct democracy popular assemblies constituted by the people directly to govern themselves.
