POLB50Y3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Parliamentary System, Lower Canada, Protestantism
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Private or voluntary sectors parts of society and the economy that function separately from the government. Public sector is pretty much everything to do with the government, that"s not private. Government intervention normally cost money, which is gathered in the form of taxes. Government is defined as the set of institutions that make and enforce collective, public decisions for a society. Power is often defined in political science as the ability of one actor to impose its will on another, to get its own way, to do or get what it wants. We have four branches of government, the legislature, the executive, the bureaucracy and the judiciary. In some instances an action requires the combined action of any two of the four branches. Interest groups , pressure groups , and advocacy groups are all important to canada. (these are groups people make to raise a point when they are dissatisfied with a current government decision.
