POLS 1000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)

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This underpins the declining rates of participation in democratic institutions. Politics is crucially important if we are going to survive in this world. Political decisions affect the economy, the quality of the environment, the freedoms you enjoy and whether your country will send troops to fight in another part of the world. Rising levels of co2 traps heat which results in global warming. Often a result of industrial process (burning of fossil fuels which leads to emissions of co2 which go into the atmosphere and trap heat) Relation to politics: new set of political structures of power and authority which. Powerful forces will allow dramatic change (revolutionary) in how production, consumptions, and living standards are determined. Power (page 5): the ability to achieve an objective by influencing the behavior of others, particularly to get them to do what they would not have otherwise done. Dimensions of power (all forms of power have some form of this):