POL203Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Collective Action, Overconsumption, Private Good

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Logic of american politics: chapter 1/ sept 16, 17. Politics: process through which individuals & groups reach agreement on a course of common, or collective action, even as they disagree on the intended goal of that action. Each party finds a solution to its conflict. success needs to be bargained. Successful bargaining usually means compromising, in which each side concedes some preferences to secure others. Government institutions: tend to regard preferences as givens individuals and groups know what they want that must be reconciled if they are to agree to some common course of action. Preferences may reflect the individuals economic situation, religious values, ethnic ideas, or some other valued interest. Commonly associate preferences with some sort of self interest. In the absence of effective political institutions they could count on to manage potential conflicts, ethnic and religious rivals became trapped in a spiral of mutual suspicion, fear and hostility.

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