PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Common Good, Ancient Greek, Hard Power
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Po 102 - b: lecture: thursday, january 4th, tuesday, january 9th, and thursday, Politics: activity related to or influencing, making or implementing collective decisions for a political community. Politics is about resources and resolving disagreements and conflicts over values and world views. Political conflict originates over scarce resources deciding on priorities, and/or differing values. Politics involves struggle among different groups in society who want different things. The activity of individuals and institutions that make and enforce collective decisions. A general idea usually a big idea which tends to be more abstract. Involves interpretation, so it can be interpreted in various ways. Democracy, justice, citizenship, security, government - key political science concepts. Among many things, government is the conflict manager, canada. No such thing as solution, just trade offs, can"t please everyone. Achieving an objective by influencing the behaviour of others. Getting someone to do something they would not have otherwise done. Often involves a relationships, power is relational.
