POLISCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Common Rule
1 Apr 2016
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Why politics: we are social, we need each other, we need rules, there is no choice, we are involved: and diversity of interest, ideas and judgment. The first definition: aristotle: the good of man must be the end of the science of politics, good/happiness a very different definition. The second definition: laswell american political scientist: who gets what when and how, conflict of interest and ideas, his emphasis wasn"t on state power but on increasing the scope of disagreement to change policy. The third definition weber: slow boring of hard boards. All politics is backed by violence (law, police, etc think about refusing to pay your taxes) As a result the stakes are high. This means that political process is a slow and frustrating series of compromises. He said that politics is the slow boring of hard boards . Crick: wants to restore politics as a great activity, politics is an activity, it is not just something else.
