GVPT 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Plurality Voting System, Equality Of Outcome, Free Rider Problem

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 170
• Professor: kristinamiler

Document Summary

**keep up with current events in the news! Donald trump - pledge to run as a republican nominee. Government: the system for implementing decisions made through the political process. Two of the central goals of government are to provide for the common defence and issue domestic tranquility . 1. to provide/maintain order a: hobbes and the anarchy of the state of nature . Law and order (security: life in the state of nature would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short . If men were angels, no government would be necessary. (james madison) Madison assumed people were self-interested = we want the best for ourselves and. Tendency to form factions with like-minded people family and to satisfy those interests we tend to form with like-minded people. Importance of checks and balances factions: groups of like-minded people who try to influence the government.