POL 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Collective Action, Enrolled Bill, Supermajority

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1
• Professor: Robert Huckfeldt

Document Summary

Politics is the process thorugh which iindividuals and groups reach agreementon course of common or collective action even as they disagree on intended goals of that action. Reconciling preferences represents a fundamental problem of governance. As participants and prefernces inc/ issues become more complex and divisive, unstructured negotiation rarely leads to collective decision (risk the other side will not hold up agreement) In absence of effective political institutions conflicts rise w mutual suspicion fear and hostility: collapse of yugoslavia communist gov resurrected ancient enmitites. Summer of 1787 constitution drafted in a way to convince all that this was better than the previous articles and to adopt it and become part of the whole- reassure their diverse interests would better under const. Instituitonal design is product of politics, institutions may enjoy a temporary adv and try t make it permanent w difficult to change rules: -department of ed jimmy carter.