POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clan Macpherson, Operationalization, October Crisis
3 Oct 2016
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Exams are not directly cumulative (knowledge may carry over but not actively) Do m/c from oup canada, but short answer from book & website won"t be on exam. Exam is a mix of m/c & short answer. Slides (1&2 on the 8 th , 3-5 on the 10 th ) Chapter 1: an introduction to political life: 1) conflicting sentiments. Cynicism, mistrust, apathy; (refer to angus-reid survey of career respectability) Answer: the inevitable messiness" of democratic politics: 2) the nature of political interaction. Democratic politics is messy; somewhat unclear what is democratic and what is not. Will not be black and white in a pluralistic society. These definitions differ in terms of the scope and biases of politics. Public and private realms: political conflict is in large measure about where to draw the line: 4) power. Coercion (force) influence (persuasion) and authority (compliance because of internalized norms) The base of the 1970 flq crisis (pierre.
