POL101Y1 Lecture 2: Semester 2: Week 2
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Three theses on power: goals: reframe relationship between power, authority, government, and democracy. Too often, we use these terms synonymously. Let us differentiate how each term operates. Coercion: agenda-shaping, limit and frame debate, circumscribe choices prior to democratic moment of decision, the media we consume & classes we take shape and define the decisions we make, shapes, directs, constrains, without recognizable coercion or constraint, domination. Thomas frank: what(cid:495)s the matter with kansas: what makes people vote against their interests? (objectivity) e. g. kansas used to be radical. Before civil war in us, it was allowing states to enter union (slave state or free state). John brown was from kansas (free state) was part of fanatics (cid:523)(cid:498)slavery(cid:495)s something you stop and not debate(cid:499)(cid:524) and would kill slave owners. Early 20th century, kansas transitioned from state in the frontier of the country to an slavery. agricultural powerhouse. Kicked off farms due to fluctuations and commodity prices.
