POLS 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Santa Barbara City College, Loss Aversion, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship
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Changing the membership: assumption: characteristics of the people making the decision affect its contents, so, by changing the people, we can affect the decision, descriptive vs. In the end stone says the key is accountability: ex. Changing the size: long lasting debate in the us about whether small or large government is better, silly debate according to stone. The answer is it depends: focus on size hides key questions of power distribution. Give a satisfying account of the rightness of treating like cases alike or differently : political reasoning is primarily concerned with rightness and wrongness, good and bad, sameness and difference. Jeff"s summary: do unto others as you would have others do unto you, law consists of the prophecies of what the courts will do in fact. , oliver wendell holmes. Blue states: mostly west coast/northeast coast (house), more blended amongst middle ground states for senate (51 r, 49 d) Process: procedures and relationships through which power is exercised.