POL SCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Precommitment, Grou, Robert A. Dahl
5 Dec 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Kjkv ch1, ks 1-1, 1-2, reader what is politics . The logic of collective action by mancur olson. Politics are inevitable in contexts with cap, involve authority, is conversation of demands into policies, conflicts and collaboration. Moral authority to extract obedience, create legitimacy. Need gov for physical security (hobbes) and public goods. Address cap (pre-commitment)- cc, fr problem, pd, electoral incentives. Power based on skillful use of resources. Costs & benefits (dispersed or concentrated): 4 politics (majoritarian, entrepreneurial, client, interest group) Inverse relationship between coordination cost and conformity cost. Framer"s tool kits (apply tc & cc): especially veto, agenda setting (positive and negative) and principal-agent (agency loss) 3 settings and 5 logics of politics (cid:2) Inevitable, everywhere, involves rules/ power/ authority: 1) culture (values/ beliefs, individual liberty vs. social equality), falling groups), power) collective goods, 2) structural (demographic and economic makeup, rising vs, 3) institutional (government makeup, fragmentation of. Purposes 1) resolving conflicts & scarcity 2) cooperate to achieve.
