PO110 Lecture Notes - Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court, Walmart, Empowered
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An understanding of politics is not a gift, it is an achievement . Contrast different definitions of the work politics . Recognize how defining politics is a political act. Co-operative cooperate in ways to get things done. Some parts are very formal elections. Some parts are informal decentralized, no actual leader, but still defines an idea, eg. occupy movement. Distance between leaders and led: how much distance between the leaders and led until the leader doesn"t represent the led. Subjective, you are always part of it. Defining politics shape how you view politics. Science and art of government; dealing with the form, organization and administration of a state or part of one, and with regulation of its relation with other state. A process by which decisions are made within groups. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human (and many non-human) group interactions.
