POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Responsible Government, Constitutionalism, Cabinet Collective Responsibility
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Its about balancing competing interests and views, making decisions, allocating resources or power, there may not be right or wrong answers or approaches to things. Politics arises from scarcity of resources and power. Disagree about what power relations count as political. Political conflict is about where to draw he line between public and provate realms. Ability to influence what happens: not restricted to government e. g. governments want amazon, ymca, brings jobs and boosts economy. Thee reasons of (cid:498)faces of power(cid:499) coercion (force), influence (persuasion), authority (legitimate) e. g. governments putting calories on food to make us choose healthier options. Deals with two sets of relations: between the citizens and the states: democratic constitution limits power, it identifies individual rights and sometimes group rights that can be infringed. 2. ) the distributions of functions and powers among the different parts of the state, which can be analyzed under three main function headings. Written, decisions of courts (common law), unwritten constitutional conventions.
