POLS 101 : 101notes.doc
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Who gets the benefits and who pays the costs. Expected to have a monopoly on legitimate coercion and violence: rules: directives that specify how resources will be distributed or what procedures govern collective activity. The how of who gets what, and how: institutions: organizations in which government power is exercised. Branches of government (judicial, legislative, executive: the institution of government is necessary because in the absence of such authority or order, human life is solitary, cold, nasty, brutish, and short (thomas hobbes, purpose of government: To provide hope for a life of reasonable peace (secure in our persons and property) Regulated capitalism has government procedural guarantees, whereas laissez-faire capitalism doesn"t: socialist economy: the state determines production, distribution, and price decisions; property is government owned. Monarchy: government power vested in a king or queen (saudi. Theocracy: government claims to draw its power from divine or. Fascist government: policy is made for the ultimate glory of the.
