Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liberal Democracy, Identity Politics, Civil Society
28 Sep 2015
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The discipline of political science, paradigms & methodology. Defining politics: many definitions, conflict over interests and values, scarcity, reconcile & agree, make collective decisions, laswell: who gets what, when, how? , the good life, best kind of society, stoker: liberty versus equality preference. Politics everywhere: different thinkers, marx & engels: organized class power to oppress, fukuyama: end of history , consensus and cooperation, end" of politics, different societies, western liberal democracies, african nationalist dictatorships, middle east theocracies. Political questions: 3: consider: ontario"s sex ed curriculum , 1. What values do the decisions serve: 2. who makes and who should make the decisions, 3. Boundaries of the political 1: actors & relations: the state, only relevant institution, artificially separated. Political sociology & political economy: weber: monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force in enforcing order within a given territorial area .
