PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ernest Gellner, Michael Oakeshott, Bertrand Russell
Document Summary
Power ability to achieve goals in a political system and to have others do as you wish them to. Influence the ability to change behaviour in others without exerting direct power over them. Political science - formal study of politics within and among nations. Government - the institutions and people responsible for carrying out the affairs and administration of a political system. Conflict differences in preferred outcomes among social groups. Conflict resolution - process in domestic or international affairs that attempts to reconcile antagonism (either existing or potential) through the use of meditation and negotiation. Socialization process whereby individuals act in a social manner; creation of social and political authority and rules to regulate behaviour and thus permit operation of social units. Decision-making - mechanism or pattern of relations involving different levels of government in which determinations and judgements regarding the governance of the political system are made (sometimes referred to as the black box)
