POLS 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Aboriginal Peoples In Canada, Front De Libération Du Québec

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Leger marketing"s annual survey of canadians, asking them whether they trust people in certain professions: firefighters 97, teachers 89, politicians 15, car sales 12% Once elected they must balance competing demands and points of view. Arises from the fact of scarcity(desire for wealth, water, clean air-conflicts will take place between rival claimants which is how politics comes about) However it is also about how the conflicts are settled so politics is also the activity by which rival claims are settles by public authorities. State"s authority reaches=where the boundaries of what is considered political is located is inside the boundary line and private realm is beyond this line where the states authority does not extend. Politics is about the exercise of power but marxism, postmodernism(foucault) and feminism think otherwise. For them politics is about the pervasive pattern of oppression. About how inequalities are generated and reinforced through the power relations that exist between classes/gender groups at all levels of society.

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