POLS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mao Zedong, Philosopher King, Nationstates
11 Oct 2013
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Activity related to influencing, making or implementing collective decisions for a political community. Negative view: involve the selfish pursuit of one"s own interest, without concern of people and community, people distrust government, inefficient, corrupted, laws and policy"s favor the dominant groups, lead to neglect of weak, abuse power and authority. Positive view: engage in political activity to advancing common good of political community, eg. Establish peace and security , fair justice, health care. The ability to achieve an objective by influencing the behavior of others, particularly to get them to do what they would not have otherwise done. Using fear, threats to achieve an outcome. Nazi threat to invade czech, successful allow them to control part of territory, employer threaten to fire you unless you do a specific task: inducement. Employer promise you promotion if you support a particular candidate: persuasion. Persuade other to think and act in a particular way.
