POLS 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Town Hall Meeting, Harold Lasswell, Capitalism
2 Oct 2017
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Politics affects how much money you have, what you can legally do, and it can threaten your life: harold lasswell, politics is who gets what, when, and how. In theory- sometimes the gov does things which they say in the goal of keeping us safe, Trump and n. korea- if nk does anything, he"s basically promising nuclear war some people like how he"s taking a stand, others feel like he"s declaring ww3 but they can actually making us more venerable. Why do we need government: governments help maintain order and stability, government keeps peace (in theory) - defend nation and people, government provides public services. Paved roads, hospitals, schools, welfare, preserve national parks, law enforcement, fire. We pay for these services in the form of state and federal taxes protection. Types of government: totalitarian- government controls all aspects of political and social maters (nazi germany, authoritarian- governments where only the government is fully controlled by ruler (china,
