POLS 1400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Foreign Investment Review Agency, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Investment Canada
18 Oct 2016
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Chapter 1 introduction to canadian government and politics. Politics activity related to influencing, making, and implementing collective decisions. Power the ability to affect the behaviour of others particularly by getting them to act in ways that they would not otherwise have done. State an independent self-governing country whose governing institutions are able to make and enforce rules that are binding on the people living within a particular territory. Government the set of institutions that have the authority to make executive decisions; present proposed laws, taxes, and expenditures to the appropriate legislative body; and oversee the implementation of laws and policies. Legitimacy the acceptance by the people that those in positions of authority have the right to govern. Democracy rule by the people either directly or through the election of representatives. Direct democracy a form of democracy in which citizens are directly involved in making the governing decisions.
