POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Public Administration, Political Philosophy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1101
• Professor: Daniel Pierre- Antoine

Document Summary

Large groups complexity & diversity of views conflict. The necessity & inevitability of politics: resolving or reducing conflict shared norms (justice, fairness, decision-making procedures, politicians: no worse than the rest of us, particularly difficult job, high stakes, high drama, visibility. Anything about governing, the rulers, the exercise of power. Conflicts between the people involved in the above. Separation between politicians & the rest of us. Anything having to do with life in group. Interactions & debates between politicians, between politicians & the rest, between the rest of us. Longer answer: differences among individuals & among groups, conflicts between needs, preferences, interests, ideas of the good, etc. impossibility to resolve conflicts forever, (cid:862)me(cid:863) (cid:894)or (cid:862)us(cid:863)(cid:895) a(cid:374)d the (cid:862)spe(cid:272)ial i(cid:374)terests(cid:863), a common complaint, also an illusion. We are forced to live together get along or leave avoid discussing some issues or confront them. Politi(cid:272)ia(cid:374)s (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t a(cid:448)oid the issues it"s their jo(cid:271) to deal (cid:449)ith the(cid:373) avoidance generates complaints from members of society.