POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liberal Democracy, Representative Democracy, Direct Democracy
Document Summary
The struggle for dominance and inluence in the making, execuion and enforcement of collecive public decisions and policies. The aciviies related to inluencing, making, and implemening decisions: there is a struggle/controversy with poliical aciviies because of the diferent opinions, interests, values, and prioriies people have, aciviies related to inluencing, making and implemening collecive decisions. Also involve aciviies that try to resolve conlicts: ie quebec divisive referendum. Who gets what, when where and why: poliics is about collecive decisions and acions. Examples of poliics: the canadian lag is a poliical statement of what our poliics stand for. Points on leaves = provinces: people who go to hospitals. Represents how canada has values of waning free healthcare. Gov and poliical discussions: taxes, twiter. Taxes fund the government for resources to disrepute to the community. Diference between government and poliics: gov is structure of how country is run, insituion, poliics is based on policies and the processes for gov to funcion.
