POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Confederation Bridge, Morgenthaler, Secret Ballot
15 Apr 2013
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The monadic definition: focusing on one primary element as the most important to understanding a phenomena. Politics as a totalized activity: how do you think about a political realm that is separate from, and different from other realms, 2-3 million cambodians were killed/died because of removal in order to establish a new regime. Politics is about : government, law, power and its exercise, control, the pursuit of good (or the good life, the distribution of good things. Lasswell s who gets what, when, and how (and why: the maintenance of order, a social process. Ideas and issues: the resolution of conflict between people. Unmentioned possibilities: practices that once invented, can never be un-invented. Attractions of a monadic definition: the comfort of a pithy definition (one word, simplify complex phenomena. Problems of a monadic definition: complexity. What drives individuals to engage in war: especially to enjoy it. Beyond a monadic definition: multidimensional, heuristic framework.
