POL 1101 Study Guide - Political Philosophy, Area Studies, New Institutionalism

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Influence: coercion, ability, although all 3 are used, authority has the most significance for political governance. Influence and coercion have limited value so far as governments are concerned, although both are used extensively in all political systems: authority is the political systems can on to make binding sessions regarding the allocation of resources. Domestic political comparative politics, and international politics to these are sub displaces and political economy, public economy, public policy, and public administration, etc. Political science has five major subfields: political theory, comparative politics. International politics: canadian (national or domestic) politics, public policy and public administration, political theory. Encompasses both normative political philosophy and empirically oriented theory. Political theory concerns itself with the ends or purposes of political action. Western politics can be divided into five major historical periods: classical (greeks and roman), medieval (christian thinkers), enlightenment (social contract theorist such as hobbes, locke and.