PO101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Non-Governmental Organization, Conflict Resolution, Liberal Democracy
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Definitions: power: ability to achieve goals in a political system and to have others do as you wish them to. The necessity of politics: four dimensions of politics, formal dimension, informal dimension, the role of the past, the role of ideas in politics. Different views of politics: art of government. Otto von bismark, believed politics is not a science but an art. Understood as a system of social organization centered upon the machinery f government. Politicians as power seeking hypocrits: public affairs. Private: civil society such as business organizations, trade unions, clubs, and families (ex. Politics as the art of the possible. The activity by which differing interests within a given unit of rule are conciliated by giving them a share in power in proportion to their importance to the welfare and the survival of the whole community. Politics as solution to the problem of order which chooses conciliation rather than violence and coercion.
