POLSCI 1AA3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Government is only part of the domain of politics. Government de nition - government has to do with compulsion, not voluntary decision making. Government is a specialized activity of those individuals that make and enforce public decisions that are binding upon the whole community . Government - institutional apparatus that makes and enforces rules on society. A way of modelling and predicting how human beings will interact given speci c circumstances and assumptions. Prisoners dilemma - a type of game scenario. One de nition: politics is about power; about the forces which in uences and re ect its distribution it is not about government or government alone (held and lefwich, 1984 p144) The study of power: how it is used, by whom, and towards what ends. Governments rely on different types of power to make things happen. In uence - persuasion; language and rhetoric ex. It"s the law, or it"s told by someone with legitimacy so we follow it.
