POLS 1400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Peter Drucker, Royal Assent, Political Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1400
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

Document Summary

Private sectors: the profit oriented, non-governmental part of the economy. Voluntary sectors: the non-profit sector of the economy. Public sectors: the part of the economy operated or financed by the government. Power: the ability of one actor to impose its will on another to get its own way, or to do or get what it wants, usually considered to be the essence of politics and the government. Coercion: power based on authorized physical force (police, prisons) on which government has a near monopoly. Also what the government does when the state cannot otherwise get the public to accept its decisions. Authority: a type of power based on legitimacy; the subject regards the decision maker as having a right to make a decision. Government: the set of institutions that make and enforce collective, public decisions for a society and the group of people the prime minister and cabinet and their supporters in. Parliament who are currently charged to make such decisions.