POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bernard Crick

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Eleanor Mac Donald

Document Summary

Emphasis on institutions: the state, the government, political parties, interest groups. Emphasis on power in its various forms: control, influence, authority, coercion. Emphasis on distribution of resources or of values: who gets what, when and how or allocation of values (harrod glasswell) Emphasis on process of conciliation- groups get the influence equivalent to their importance (bernard crick) Common concerns of a group, community, region, nation, humanity. Therefore subject to change through actions, processes, development of structures and systems. The definition of politics itself is political. What or whom you include or exclude has political effects.