POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: David Easton, Harold Lasswell, Security Studies
6 Sep 2016
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Week 1 (jan 7th) introduction to comparative politics and international relations . How politics is organized in different countries through systematic comparisons. Understanding political phenomena and processes in various types of contexts, including states and institutions, political culture and society, regimes, nationalism and ethnicity, and state-society relations. Field of study that focuses on politics in the international milieu: the evolution of the international system, security studies, diplomacy and foreign policy, international organizations, and international political economy. Harold lasswell: who gets what, when, and how . This definition puts emphasis on distribution of resources (such as material resources, cultural resources, language rights, freedom of religion. David easton: the authoritative allocation of values for a society. some people have power and others do not. The authority can be small, such as the central government, but it doesn"t have to be the only authority in the state. Values seem to be more important than physical materials.
