POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: People Nation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralaski

Document Summary

Two approaches can be taken when looking at politics. Power: ability to get regardless of what you want, the more often you do this, the more powerful you are. Through persuasion: reason- appeal to rationality (smoking example: government talked about diseases, emotion- appeal to emotion (government showed pictures of what would happen if you smoked, coercion, force-> death penalty (canada got rid of it, authority. Citize(cid:374)s do what they"re supposed to do willi(cid:374)gly: legitimacy + obligation. Sour(cid:272)es of politi(cid:272)al authority: these are the thi(cid:374)gs that (cid:373)ake people do what they"re supposed to willingly: traditional factors, look at the past political system. Political power was caste down, old king to eldest son (offspring of the king) We, the west, have rejected this concept of inheritance power but the rich people have political power in north america. Catholic church supported the idea that the king should have the power.