POL 3133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mike Duffy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3133
• Professor: Jozef Orocz

Document Summary

The common good function: referring to considerations affecting the good order and functioning of the community and government affairs, for the well being of citizens. Politics: human activity concerned with different aspects of public questions and the resolution or settlement of possible controversies. *public questions: questions or issues which relate to the public. Public problems: any problem with a large number of persons, or any issue the majority feels where the government should step in. *politics redefined: concerned with controversies over public questions and the resolution of those controversies. Objective political reality: political events as they actually occurs; Subjective reality: the reality of political events as they are perceived by actors and citizens. Constructed reality: events as covered by the media. Impartial communicator: inform the public on important events, act as a watchdog, provide an open forum to the expression and critical discussions.