POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Constitution Of The United Kingdom, E. Peterbus Unum, Negative And Positive Rights
26 Oct 2016
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Agenda: review, power in general, constitutions, the canadian constitution, path dependence, conclusion, review. We are not a post-industrial country; we were never a post-industrial country before. We went from agriculture to the service sector: hence why we never had a strong labor party or socialist party, power in general. Po(cid:449)er is (cid:862) the probability that one actor in a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:449)ill, despite resista(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:863) max weber, political sociologist (weber 1947, 152) Power is: the lifeblood of all politics, exists when everyone perceives it (thomas hobbes, what the people believe it be (i. e. money) Intimidation: authority over others, to get what you want, to influence and control. We(cid:271)er"s defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) allo(cid:449)s for degrees of po(cid:449)er: the more probability that you have to carry out your resistence/will, the more power that you will have, you can also what you want despite resistance.
