POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Robert A. Dahl, Comparative Politics, Bernard Crick

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: David A Mc Donald

Document Summary

5 fields of politics offered at queens : Intro to politics -electronic access (need a code) Making sense: a student"s guide to research and reading. To use laptops sit on the right side of class. No class tuesday this week and next week. If you know that you will miss a class, try go to section 001 at 930 monday and 1030 thursday. Aristotle: man is a political animal we make decisions about how to live together, instead of instinct. Emphasis on institutions: the state, the government, political parties, interest groups. Emphasis on power in its various forms: control, influence, authority, coercion (robert. Emphasis on distribution of resources or of values : who gets what, when and how or allocation of values . Emphasis on process of conciliation - groups get the influence equivalent to their importance (bernard crick) Emphasis on who is engaged (actors, institutions, populations, etc. vs. emphasis on focus of concern (resources)