Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
26 Mar 2013
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Elections - (people with formal decision making powers are elected classified as formal politics) Demonstrations - (informal protests 99 percent, tea party, etc. Policy decisions reaction by the people to policy decisions (obamacare) Social (demonstrations, elections) politics is about groups (politics is a collective action) Food for thought (questions relating to politics based off the video) Social science claim : democracies do not engage each other in war. Capacity as human beings for war and peace (stressed choice of humans rather than inevitability) Steady decline in number of deaths from 1960 (half a million per year) to 2012(30,000) A nation is a community of belief, a state is a political community (territorial communities with boundaries) Centralized governing authority states have definite borders (boundaries) Weber state is characterized by a monopoly of legitimate force/violence. In whose interest (in the interests of the governed) Power can be thought of as the currency of politics.
