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Politics: Who Gets What, and How?
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Chapter 1:
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Politics:
who gets what, when, and how; a process of determining how power and
resources are distributed in a society without recourse to violence
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Power:
the ability to get others to do what you want.
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Politics and government
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Government: a system or organization for exercising authority over a body of
people
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Authority: power that people recognize as legitimate
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Power vs. Authority
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Rules: directives that specify how resources will be distributed or what
procedures govern collective activity
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The “how” of who gets what, and how?
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Institutions: organizations in which government power is exercised
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The “where of political struggle
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Politics and Economics
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Economics:
production and distribution of a society’s material resources and
services.
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- Fall '06
- Sullivan
- Government, Democracy, Political Philosophy, fascist government, authority Authoritarian Systems, democracy Elite democracy
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