PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World Wide Fund For Nature, North American Free Trade Agreement, United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea
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Politics: activity related to influencing, making or implementing collective decisions for a political community (textbook definition) Example: laurier given 5 billion $ - political community must decide how to use it (updating res, better wifi, invest in programs, debts, invest) Politics is about how we spend money. There are limited resources (money, benefits) but there are many demands (health care, We need to have a process to decide which groups and which goals receive support. We need to resolve any conflicts that could arise. When politics turns violent it means all of our resolutions for politics have failed. People argue these are the hardest to resolve. Quebec"s ban of religious symbols in the government workplace. It is about division between church and state being clear. That political conflict originates over scarce resources and/or differing values. It involves struggle among different groups in society who want different things. Government (main kind of mechanism we use to resolve conflict)
