Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Action, Decision-Making
10 Dec 2016
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Decision making powers changing hands: demonstrations. Politics matters: decisions that affect you, laws assign rights and duties, decisions are enforced. Hispaniola: first place christopher columbus arrived, wiped natives. Haiti and the dominican republic: different environmental conditions. Dr 74 natural reserves, covering 1/3 of the land vs. haiti 4: consequences of political decisions. Haiti used to be richer than the dr. Meanings of (cid:494)politics(cid:495: formal government activity, dishonestly seeking personal gain, noble pursuit of the public good (cid:494)who gets what, when, and how? (cid:495) Primates humans are the cruellest primates. The elements of politics: social, process, conflict, binding decisions, enforced, a social process or activity with conflicting interests that reach binding decisions that are enforced. Between love and war: pure conflict = war, pure cooperation = true love, politics = conflict and cooperation. Where is politics: family, economy, state, international and everywhere, economics is basically political.
