[HLST 2020] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 25 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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Hlst 2020 power and politics exam notes: tamara daly. How are you feeling: quantitative analysis- numerical information- ex. Interest in common: public policy is trying to achieve a goal as a community. Essential elements: public interest ( not self-interest, goals based on consensus - the majority- not always good because minority people excluded, sometimes you do thing that are good for a community. Information is never complete and never fully available to everyone- information is hidden. Information is a matter of interpretation- political activity is an attempt to control interpretations. People belong to them in multiple ways- ex- women, professor: policy making is about solving public problems and how groups are formed and dissolved. Information in the polis (deborah stone: politics= how we interpret information, political spin- making things seem better than it is. Passion and power (deborah stone: the more people work together the more they are committed to an idea, adds personal connections.
