POG 110 Lecture 1: Lecture One - Sept 15th, 2015
4 Apr 2016
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Lecture: politics: all activities related to influencing, making, and implementing collective decisions, power: a key feature of politics. Real world application (nuremberg trials post wwii, eichmann trial, 1962: state: an independent self-governing country whose governing institutions are able to make and enforce rules that are binding on the people living within a particular territory. International state system (1648, treaty of westphalia, leaders came together in unison to stop the bloodshed. Binding on the people (citizens, relationship to other citizens and to the state. State makes rules, and we follow them, thus binding). Relates that the state is an authority figure (may include federal government, municipal, military, etc. ) Sovereignty (to govern over the particular geographic location) Real world applications: *stanford prisoner experiment (1971), *milgram electric shock experiment* *politics tells us why power is so important* Internal conflicts: quebec (2 referendums on sovereignty from canada, 1980, 1995) Indigenous (contestations on land, and non-reusable resources found on the land, laws)
