POLS 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Student Debt
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Engagement of younger generation: voting spike in 2008, big drop in 2010, not volunteering on campaigns, don"t know important leaders, low current event information. Not a great economic situation: student debt high, job availability low. Eating; at home or going out to eat. What is american government: presidential administration, congress, courts, state house, state senate. Create and enforce rules we live by. Government is a place where politics happens. How institutions within our government are influenced. The process of who gets what, when, and how. laswell. Government helps: organize our life, provide rules we live by. People fight: settle on our own, government settles the dispute. To provide us with things we can"t provide ourselves. Therefore, we : agree to do what the government wants: Authority: government"s ability to make laws impacting our lives. Power: ability to get people to do something they may not otherwise do.
