POL 101 Lecture 2: POL 101 Week 2 Textbook Notes
13 Nov 2015
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Politics: activities related to influencing, making, and implementing collective decisions. Power: the ability to affect the behavior of others, particularly by getting them to act in ways that they would not otherwise have done: politics can be controversial due to contrasting values, opinions and priorities. State: an independent, self-governing country whose governing institutions are able to make and enforce rules that are binding on the people who live within a particular territory. Government: the set of institutions that have the authority to make executive decisions; present proposed laws, taxes and expenditures to the appropriate legislative body; and oversee the implementations of laws and policies. If any groups felt the state was forced upon them, legitimacy may be lost to the state: aboriginal first nations never gave up their right to sovereignty, but the. Democracy: rule by the people, either directly or through the election of representatives.
