POL 100 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Liberalism, Industrial Revolution, Free Market
12 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
POL 100
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
POL 100-SFU
LECTURE 1: CHAPTER 1-INTRODUCTION
• Politics:
- Activities that involve the governance of a political community/country. Specifically,
by influencing, implementing and making critical decisions.
- In politics, POWER is the central.
• Power:
- This is the ability to control or influence the behaviors of people in order to achieve
your goals.
- It is stogly used to get people to do thig they ould’t do otheise.
- Power is being exercised in four ways: coercion, inducements, persuasion &
leadership.
➢ Coercion:
-This involves the use of threats of dangerous consequences and fears to force
others to act in a certain way to achieve your goals.
-This is a way that authorities use their power.
➢ Inducements:
-This is when the authorities use the method of bribing or giving rewards to
obtain their ultimate goals.
-This is a way that authorities use their power.
➢ Persuasion:
-When the authorities use the method of convincing or persuading other people
to act or behave in their favors in order to achieve their goals.
-This is a way that authorities use their power.
➢ Leadership:
-This is when the authorities are being great and trustful leaders so that they can
gain the support and trust of the political community.
-It is also a good way to prove the legitimacy of a country.
-This is a way that authorities use their power.
• Political Agenda:
- This is when the issues are being viewed as very important; therefore, in political
deliberations, they have the rights to be discussed and debated on first.
- Political agenda is also ko as “politis’ pioity list-which means issues that have
the most attention from the government will be on the list.
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
• Authority:
- This is the right of a person to use and exercise power and this is strongly depended
on legitimacy.
- There are three types of authority: Charismatic authority, traditional authority and
legal-rational authority
- With legitimacy, the use of power will be approved.
➢ Charismatic authority:
-This is aily ased o the leade’s pesoal haateistis ad ualities.
-It could include having extraordinary or supernatural qualities
-Example: Mao Zedong-leader of the Chinese communist revolution
➢ Traditional Authority:
-This is when the power of a leader is exercised through a set of customs, rules,
traditional practices and beliefs and evil will come if violated
-Also, it based on customs that determine the right of a person to take control.
Example: The Japanese Emperors- who claimed that they are the descendants of
the sun goddess.
➢ Legal-rational Authority:
-This is the authority to exercise power is closely tied to legal rules, procedures
or legal documents.
-The leader is expected to rule according to a set of procedures.
-Example: Prime Ministers or Presidents.
• Legitimacy:
- Having legitimacy means that the ruler obtains the approval to make decisions for
the political community given the people (the ones being governed)
- Legitimacy is very important because it reduces and minimizes reliance and
coercion.
❖ LEGITIMACY IS MAINTAINED BY CHARISMATIC, TRADITIONAL AND LEGAL-
RATIONAL AUTHORITIES.
• Common good:
- It is the goods that the government and the political community set as goals to work
towards to satisfy the needs of everyone.
- In another word, the everyone in the nation works for the common good.
• Individualist perspective:
- In politics- this refers to the perspective that human beings only focus on working
towards their own interests and act in accordance to them.
• Communitarian perspective:
- This is the opposite of individualist perspective.
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Document Summary
Activities that involve the governance of a political community/country. Specifically, by influencing, implementing and making critical decisions. In politics, power is the central: power: This is the ability to control or influence the behaviors of people in order to achieve your goals. It is st(cid:396)o(cid:374)gly used to get people to do thi(cid:374)g they (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t do othe(cid:396)(cid:449)ise. Power is being exercised in four ways: coercion, inducements, persuasion & leadership. This involves the use of threats of dangerous consequences and fears to force others to act in a certain way to achieve your goals. This is when the authorities use the method of bribing or giving rewards to obtain their ultimate goals. When the authorities use the method of convincing or persuading other people to act or behave in their favors in order to achieve their goals. This is a way that authorities use their power.
