POSC 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aristocracy, Antithesis, John Maynard Keynes
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Forms of government vary as widely as the different ideologies we examined in the. Difference often lies in our views about what life would be like without government (see previous lecture. Governments may look different, but all perform similar tasks. Two main purposes for government: security and welfare: important relationship: must have security to achieve welfare. Primary responsibility is to make public policy for an entire society and to keep society heading in the right direction. ". The institutions of the government "regulate the relationships among members of a society and between the society and outsiders" and that they "have the authority to make decisions for the society" to meet goals and maintain order. Process and structures of government help us understand decisions governments make. Government must regulate society through rules and regulations: executive, legislative, judicial, and administrative structures (more detail later) Rules mean agreement on how system should be run: football game vs. jungle hunt.
