POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bernard Crick, Robert A. Dahl
14 Jan 2016
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*no lecture on wednesday this week or next week. Politics dictate the way of living among a community/society: e. g. : how should taxes work. What makes us human is that we"re political; in order to be human we must be able to live together. aristotle. Politics involve a relationship with non-human things as well (e. g. : nature) Emphasis on institutions: the state, the government, political. Emphasis on power in it various forms: control, influence, Emphasis on distribution of resources or of values: who parties, interest groups authority, coercion (robert dahl) gets what, when, and how or allocation of values (distribution of goods; are all people valued equally) Emphasis on conflicts and differences (wars, belief systems, etc. ) Emphasis on process of conciliation: groups get the influence equivalent to their importance (bernard crick)
