POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Otto Von Bismarck, David Easton, Scientific Revolution
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A characteristic of being human is debating and deciding things together that happen in our community. David easton- post world war 2, politics: the authoritative allocation of values. No organization has that authority besides the government. People can leave religions, people can"t leave the state structure. Allocation: distribution, certain things will be given to one group of people, division of resources. Economics: the allocation of value (economic value, dollar value) Harold laswell: who gets what how and when book. E. g. healthcare- everyone gets it, they get publically funded healthcare. Prime minister of germany otto von bismarck defined politics as: the art of the possible. Conflict is not the only thing that goes on in politics cooperation. Members of a political party are cooperating. Legislative body has lots of cooperation between individual members of parliament. Conflict and cooperation are present in politics, depends on who"s analyzing. Heclo: politics is about puzzling; it"s about trying to find solutions to problems.
