POL 128 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lowest Common Denominator, Wireless Telegraphy, Australian Army Reserve

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Good life- participation + government: decision- making mechanism for society. 5000 years ago human beings discovered agriculture: conflict resolution. Human beings develop systems to resolve conflicts: authoritative allocation of values. Political systems allocates these values: search for just society. Definition of just society is not the same for everyone. Analysis of government in eastern med and wrote a book about politics. Lays out a blueprint on how politics should be. In the us very few limitations on its power. Relative concept: example canada is relatively powerful compared to jamaica. 3 forms: expressed as influence ( operated through persuasion reason emotions) (influence behaviour) or persuasion = reason and emotion, expressed as coercion- force (takes money as punish, expressed as authority willingly. Best way to think of this is to think of what politics were like back in monarchs. Kings/queens had absolute power; what they said was the law. Current day example of saudi arabia power is still passed through the family.