POLS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Harold Lasswell, Member States Of The United Nations, Network Governance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1500
• Professor: Andrea Paras

Document Summary

Authority = legitimate or socially approved use of power. Identity = characteristics belonging to an individual or a group, formed in relation to other individuals or groups. Politics is who gets what, when, and how -harold lasswell, 1935. Formal and informal institutions and processes that guide and control the activities of states and non states. Globalisation> the process of increasing interconnectedness among societies such that events in one part of the world more and more have effects on peoples and societies far away. Global culture - especially in urban areas. Cosmopolitan culture think global, act local . Network governance ( or emergence of global polity) time/ space collapse. The bad the ugly > **lack of accountability in governance ** Multilateral governance > shared amount of decision making. > different kind of powers like > social power celebrity. Igos > only open to states > examples un, eu, nato, imf g20, undp, oecd ,