POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liberal Democracy, Berlin Wall
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12pm- 1:30 pm senior common room 140 mclaughlin college. Mall office (mclaughlin college) -> peer mentors (monday friday 11-4pm) assistance. Politics is an action of making, influencing and implementing collective decisions for a political community. Power is the ability to achieve an objective though influencing the behaviour of other and by having them to do something they would not have done otherwise. Politics is persuasive common understanding of politics, in common understanding of politics there is notion that its simple corrupt arena which can be safely ignored. Lower participation is notion that politics is a waste of time. The common understanding that politics is not very important, which is wrong. It is persuasive because politics deals with the fundamental questions of how, who, and in what way decisions are reached and made. Every society has to come up with frame to answer these and as such they go to the core of social organization.