POLS 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Round Table Pizza

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 150
• Professor: Alan Segui

Document Summary

Pizza & politics: sunday nov 10 3 pm @ round table pizza (this sunday) Institutionalized powers of us presidency a. b. c. d. e: f. roosevelt. Establishes expectation that president is leader of us & people and how they should assume this consistently throughout their administration: but still remain within means in constitution (unlike lincoln, playing a more active role. Public interests promoted if components in system can be empowered. Takes away incentive for individuals in system to create opp for themselves for inidivudal/personal gain--corruption: weak government=bad government. Opportunities for corruption (via individuals) at the expense of gov is much more common b. Immortality due to human tendency towards individualized, self-inverted behavior. Its human nature to behave towards self interests: eg tyranny, violence, corruption, disloyalty, or incompetence. Institutionalization comes important when individual is socialized that their job is more important than themselves moral behavior.