POSC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oligarchy, Jus Sanguinis, Human Nature

• School: CSULB
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC 100
• Professor: Dr.Larry F.Martinez

Document Summary

Politics: who gets what, when, and how; process of determining how power and resources are distributed in a society without recourse to violence. Power: the ability to get others to do what you want. The way power is managed must be legitimate or there will be violence. Government: a system / organization for exercising authority over a body of people. Authority: the power that people recognize as legitimate. Rules: directives that specify how resources will be distributed or what procedures govern collective activity. The how of who gets what, and how. Institutions: organizations in which government power is exercised. Economics: the production and distribution of a society"s material resources and services. Both politics and economics focus on the distribution of society"s resources. Economics was meant to be private, whereas politics was meant to be public. Capitalism: market determines production, distribution, and price decisions. Regulated capitalism has government procedural guarantees, whereas laissez-