POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Stateless Society, Ruling Class

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Heuristic framework- to provide us with a framework created to give us the opportunity to think analytically about the political might be, a framework of politics in different ways. The community and its affair- about the community rather then the individual, the business of the community. Interests and their intersection- everyone has interests that they want expressed, how everyone"s interests connect to each other: there are connections between what i want and what you want, example. Rules reflect interests: a reflection of interests that last and those that don"t. Interests and power: who is getting their interest served and those who aren"t is seen from power. Governance and power: revenues aren"t meeting expenditures, how to government expresses their power through taken measures, example how a university ups its prices or course load. Making authoritative choices for and about the community. It is a process that makes choices for the community that are backed up by authority and power.