POLS 1400 Lecture 1: POLS Lectures 1
10 Nov 2018
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Politics: who gets what, when and how (harold laswell) Not voting for the governor general who represent us! 3 levels of government (federal, provincial, municipal) Then there are three sub levels of power who do certain things (executive, legislative and judicial) When?- vote for the federal level every 4 years. : we call ourselves a democracy but past elections had a 60% turnout so 40% aren"t voting. : 18 years and older, must be a canadian citizen. Government : set of institutions that make and enforce collective, public decisions also the current group in power. Ideology: body of ideas used in support of an economic, political or social theory. Public administration: the way in which governments conduct themselves through bureaucratic processes, a discipline and a practice. Basically how the government manages itself and how it micromanages tasks to otherwise branches. Democracy: ruled by the ppl. , for the ppl. , of the ppl. (ab lincoln)
