POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intolerable Acts, Mutiny Acts, John Marshall

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1101
• Professor: Audrey Haynes

Document Summary

Politics is a process through which individuals and people reach collective agreements, even if they disagree on the goal of the collective agreement. It is important because each party need to find solutions to its agreements and disagreements in order to move forward and make positive changes. Why are bargaining and compromise important to politics. Because it can help a group of people come to a collective decision efficiently. Successful bargaining sometimes works but usually ends in a compromise. Compromise= settlement in which each side generally concedes preferences. What are preferences? to secure others (cid:498)givens(cid:499)- individuals and groups know what they want- that must be reconciled if they are to agree to some common course of action. Unstructured negotiation yields a non collective results all parties can accept. They are organizations which create and enforce and apply laws: make policies; representation for the populous. Power is the influence over an institution.