POLI 2051 Chapter : CH 1 Lecture
Document Summary
Government - a formally established way of making and. Politics - the competition to shape government"s impact on. Introduction - chapter 1: what is government and why do we have it? carrying out political decisions. society"s problems and goals. Social contract theory can guide us here, to some extent. It is not a written contract, but rather, a general agreement between the people and their government. Normative - the way things ought to be. Empirical - the way things actually are: providing public goods, promoting equality, protecting life, protecting rights and liberties. Citizens disagree about which functions are most important and which functions should be most vigorously enforced. Disagreements usually arise from differences in individual priorities, and the way these priorities are organized is called a, Political ideology - a coherent set of beliefs about how policies affect society and which policies are desirable. Popular sovereignty people are the ultimate source of all public authority.
