PS 1200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Stuart Mill, Equal Rights Amendment, Social Liberalism
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What is politics: the authoritative allocation values , a means of organizing collective human activity , politics is determine who get what, when, and how . Political science: a process determine how, the systematic study of scarce resources are distributed, it is a process and therefore not limited to governmental institutions, key issues: power and choice. Politics isn"t just government politics: the use of a scienti c approach to study of political phenomena, key issues: theory, variables, and empirical evidence (repeatable evidence) Public goods and free riding (private) (free riding- mooching off public goods) A kind of social contact (u. k. - most age & oldest, france - 15 times since 1789, germany - longest) U. s. , brazil, russia ( division of power) (they all have large land mass) The u. s. constitution: why did the u. s. shift from the articles of confederation.
