GOV 310L Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: System On A Chip, Totalitarianism
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De nition of politics: the con icts and struggles over the leadership, structure, and policies of government. Power is the ability to in uence or cause change or control others. Who gets to decide how researchers are distributed. If person a can in uence person b to do something which person b would not otherwise do than person a has power over person b. Actors are the people, organizations and institutions who struggle for power. Individuals (president, law makers, legislators, judges, some religious leaders, some celebrities, voter) Collective actors ( political parties, social movements, governments, Collective actors su er from collective action dilemmas: may be internal as well as external politics. Tragedy of the commons: similar to game theory. Opec gas price setting, people sell lower than the set price. Actors pursue their interests in a context de ned by institutions. Make b do what a wants them to do. Institutions are rules and procedures that provide incentives for behaviors.
