PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Comparative Politics, Totalitarianism, Area Studies

• School: GWU
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Deborah Boucoyannis

Document Summary

I. comparative politics of political outcomes through the comparison of different cases. B. comparativists- comparative politics scholars on the foreign policy/international relations/local politics scholars called americanists . 1. compare and contrast the domestic politics of various countries; do not focus. 2. generally exclude america from their studies (which is studied and taught by. 1. politics- the set of activities that organizes individuals, resolves disputes, and. 2. policy- an official decision on how to organize people, resolve disputes, or address other collective problems the decision making mechanisms that generated this policy are known as the government . 1. power as influence; influence or faces of power ) *exercise of power: having to do something vs. unwritten/unsaid. *effective management of power necessary to maintaining authority. 2. power as capabilities; the conceptualization of power focusing on. Can manifest in many ways (various levels of characteristics that would give a person the ability to influence important outcomes , allows for political scientists to identify more tangible indicators of power.