Political Power
Nature of Politics
• Politics is that process through which authoritative allocation of value that takes place in society.
• Its concerned with who get what when and how or allocation of scare resources.
• It’s about conflict management: it involves disagreements and reconciliation of these disagreements.
“If there is conflict, there is politics.”
• Negative: when you desire it so much that scarcity pushes you to do unwanted things.
Focus in POLISCI:
• Politics is the process by which goals of society are selected or ordered in terms of priority of allocation of available resources for the common good.
• The process by which the state makes decisions that addresses people’s concern.
Politics & Power:
• Any discussion of politics revolves around power some even say politics is the struggle power.
What is Power?
➢ It is being able physically, intellectually, or both to achieve what one wants.
➢ The ability to cause others to do what one desires thru threats; sanctions or coercions
Power:
• Structuralist view of power: relationship between two or more actors. winner or loser: strong or weak, rich or poor.
• Functionalist View of Power: ability to get things done: like the capacity to mobilize resources for the attainment of societal goals.
• Power: the ability of governments and leaders to make and enforce rules, influence behavior of citizens.
• Power can be “hard” in form of brute coercion or “soft” through personal attraction or persuasion.
• Power is not equally distributed and demands question of “WHO RULES?”
• Related but different rom authority and legitimacy. Authority stems from societal norms as well as traditional sources of political power. Legitimacy – legitimate authority assumes power is exercised through established institutions and by freely accepted rules.
Political Order:
• Political Order is the structures, rules, procedures, and practices that comprise a political system.
• Governments are
• Politics is that process through which authoritative allocation of value that takes place in society.
• Its concerned with who get what when and how or allocation of scare resources.
• It’s about conflict management: it involves disagreements and reconciliation of these disagreements.
“If there is conflict, there is politics.”
• Negative: when you desire it so much that scarcity pushes you to do unwanted things.
Focus in POLISCI:
• Politics is the process by which goals of society are selected or ordered in terms of priority of allocation of available resources for the common good.
• The process by which the state makes decisions that addresses people’s concern.
Politics & Power:
• Any discussion of politics revolves around power some even say politics is the struggle power.
What is Power?
➢ It is being able physically, intellectually, or both to achieve what one wants.
➢ The ability to cause others to do what one desires thru threats; sanctions or coercions
Power:
• Structuralist view of power: relationship between two or more actors. winner or loser: strong or weak, rich or poor.
• Functionalist View of Power: ability to get things done: like the capacity to mobilize resources for the attainment of societal goals.
• Power: the ability of governments and leaders to make and enforce rules, influence behavior of citizens.
• Power can be “hard” in form of brute coercion or “soft” through personal attraction or persuasion.
• Power is not equally distributed and demands question of “WHO RULES?”
• Related but different rom authority and legitimacy. Authority stems from societal norms as well as traditional sources of political power. Legitimacy – legitimate authority assumes power is exercised through established institutions and by freely accepted rules.
Political Order:
• Political Order is the structures, rules, procedures, and practices that comprise a political system.
• Governments are