POL 101W Lecture Notes - Rand Dyck, Otto Von Bismarck, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 101W
• Professor: Andy Heard

Document Summary

Pol 101w intro to politics & government. 2. the authoritative allocation of values for a society. 4. that activity in which conflicting interests struggle for advantage or dominance. Inputs > decisions > outputs > feedback (david easton) 1. political power the ability to impose one"s will on another or to get what one wants. 2. coercion the imposition of one"s will on another by the use of penalty, force, or the threat of force. 3. influence to create a state of mind in others where they anticipate your needs and interests and then accommodate them in their actions. 4. persuasion actively engaging people to convince them of the soundness of your ideas, or of the problems they will encounter if they follow other ideas. 1. legitimacy an ethical judgment that something is right and proper. If one accepts that morality is the unique product of each society, morality is relative to each society and outsiders cannot make moral judgments.