PO111 Lecture Notes - Democratic Ideals, Plurality Voting System, Liberal Democracy
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How do we get to decide how things are decided we have to have some way to decide the conflict when people don t agree on how things should be ran. Debate about legalizing drugs first of marijuana. Its costly to imprison people who are using (treat it like a public health issue) Euthanasia where do we draw the line. Intelligent design belief that an intelligent thing created us (still focuses on science) attempt to look at creationism through a scientific lens. Originates in conflict over scarce resources and or differing values if politics is a struggle between the proponents among these ideas and if it involves the resolution then what is the mechanism that we use to allocate our resources . government. Specialized activity of individuals and institutions that make and enforce collective decisions that are binding on the community.