POG 100 Lecture 1: Lecture One & Two - Sept 9, 2014

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Joerg Wittenbrinck

Document Summary

Any persistent pattern of human relationships that involves (to a significant extent) control, influence, power or authority (dahl, 1961) Activities that influence the authoritative allocation of values for a society (easton as cited in mintz et al. Activity related to influencing, making, or implementing collective decisions for a political community (mintz et al. Power the ability to achieve an objective by influencing the behaviour of others, particularly to get them to do what they would not otherwise have done (mintz et al. Three faces of power: ability to affect decisions, ability to ensure that issues are not raised, ability to affect the dominant ideas of society. Empirical analysis (ask questions about facts, what is really in the world) Descriptive: what is canada"s climate change policy? *describe* Explanatory: why does canada have universal health care, while the us does not? *explain* What is the common good? /what is the good society? *ask these questions in the essay*