[POL208Y1] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (39 pages long)
30 Mar 2017
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Different approaches and philosophical assumptions about politics and the state. Enlightenment = age of reason, searching for rationality. What kind of society will be rational for citizens to live in. The world is governed by law, discovered by empirical laws. The relationship between the one in power and the subjects. The leader serve the people, he has to address the need of people which brings change to meet those needs. The nature science seeks to expose the laws that govern the natural world. In the nature sciences, there has been a progression in the understanding of the world. The political science is more difficult than studying the nature science. It looks at some core concepts and will discover that there"s no agreement about what they mean. No consensus about the meaning of the word politics. D. easton and the liberal tradition: politics as allocation - who gets what when and how. Contract model of states of origi/ consent of the governed.
