ENGL 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Harold Lasswell, David Easton
11 Mar 2018
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Politics as an essentially contested concept that we can ponder through the timeless insights of. According to w. b gallie (1956), essentially contested concepts are shared concepts that. Essentially involve endless disputes about their proper uses on the part of their users. : notably, he saw democracy as one such concept, and the study of politics assuredly features many others not least, politics itself. Harold lasswell defines politics as who gets what, when and how (1936) David easton defines it as definition of politics as the authoritative allocation of values for a society . For commentators like harold lasswell and david easton, politics seems to be about the allocation of resources, values, and power. For carl schmitt, the political seems to be about the need to counter the mortal threat posed by the latter.
