POL SCI 50R Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Suharto, Investment, Gross National Income
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*composed from provided lecture outlines, lecture slides, and self-taken notes in class* Basics: what is politics, politics is the study of decisions that are public and authoritative. Decision making, power, the allocation of making decisions on behalf of a given society: what is public varies among nations and populations. In example: the sex lives of politicians; in america its public knowledge, in other countries it may not be. Other types are self-government (people ruling the people): in america, it is the general principle that a small group will make decisions for the greater society on their behalf. This is why societies are joined to exist. In example, minorities may be oppressed based on the temporary mob-mentality of the majority. The reality of the revolution is that colonists saw british parliament as the oppressors, not necessarily the king. Parliamentary of britain, of that time, was ruled by the rich.
