GOVT2552 Lecture 2: week 2.

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government Relations
• Course: GOVT2552
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Collective activity, involving people who share a common membership. Politics involves reconciling such differences through discussion and persuasion. Political decisions become authoritative policy for a group. Shively a way to work out rationally the best common solution to a common problem . Government: a government consists of institutions responsible for making collective decisions for society. More narrowly, government refers to the top political level within such institutions. The danger of hobbes"s common power is that it will abuse its own authority, creating more problems than it solves. The state is a political community formed by a territorial population which is subject to one government. A country usually refers to a state"s territory and population, rather than its govern- ment. In international law, a state"s territory extends to its airspace, continental shelf and ter- ritorial waters. Sovereignty refers to the ultimate source of authority in society. the sovereign is the highest and final decision-maker within a community.