Tuesday Lecture Notes
- Political science is taking an event, and asking questions about it
- What issues are in each of the following political ad’s, either explicitly, or implicitly?
- Liberal - Having each other's back in spite of geographical differences, very
big picture of pushing forward, finding a way to make things work, leave
nobody behind, think bigger & move forward for everyone
- Conservative - Get the economy surging, recover a million jobs, mental health
action, balance the budget, let's get to work, very quick ad, felt like a hardware
ad
- NDP - Connect to my family, end racism and injustice, make the rich pay their
fair share, better is possible
- Bloc Quebecois - Keep an eye on Quebec's culture and preserve it and its
values and language, provide tools for those who want to live in Quebec
- Elections issues - military policy, Quebec culture & borders, making more jobs,
taxing the rich, carbon tax, the environment, political institutions
- Sem 2 has an expansion part in 1AB3 for this course which focuses on international
issues
- Read the course guide on avenue to learn. Crucial to prep for the course
- End of every module will have a short quiz which you have 20 minutes to answer
- Mid-term test/exam will be a single question posted on A2L focusing on one of the
theories we focused on in the first half of the class
- The exam will be a list of questions which you chose three of to answer in an essay
format
- The first quiz is up on A2L, due Sept 10th which talked about the lecture on the 7th &
10th
Friday Lecture Notes
- Today's quiz will be about the course syllabus & course outline and what we talked
about in today's lecture
- A variety of definitions can apply to one word, this is not a course where you will
repeat definitions
- Government is a specialized activity when governing individuals make and enforce
public decisions that are binding upon the whole community
- Game theory is establishing rules that are assumed to be true and then seeing what
happens to come to a conclusion
- We will assume that people are individually rational
- When there are no above-level rules that decide how people will behave, with these
two rules, what should happen?
- The prisoner's dilemma shows that people will do irrational things in spite of
assuming they as rational
- An argument for the existence of government is that individuals don't always act
rationally, and so a collective is needed to make rational things happen
- Types of political power:
- Coercion is the ability to force someone to do something they don't want to
do, no option of free will in this choice
- Political science is taking an event, and asking questions about it
- What issues are in each of the following political ad’s, either explicitly, or implicitly?
- Liberal - Having each other's back in spite of geographical differences, very
big picture of pushing forward, finding a way to make things work, leave
nobody behind, think bigger & move forward for everyone
- Conservative - Get the economy surging, recover a million jobs, mental health
action, balance the budget, let's get to work, very quick ad, felt like a hardware
ad
- NDP - Connect to my family, end racism and injustice, make the rich pay their
fair share, better is possible
- Bloc Quebecois - Keep an eye on Quebec's culture and preserve it and its
values and language, provide tools for those who want to live in Quebec
- Elections issues - military policy, Quebec culture & borders, making more jobs,
taxing the rich, carbon tax, the environment, political institutions
- Sem 2 has an expansion part in 1AB3 for this course which focuses on international
issues
- Read the course guide on avenue to learn. Crucial to prep for the course
- End of every module will have a short quiz which you have 20 minutes to answer
- Mid-term test/exam will be a single question posted on A2L focusing on one of the
theories we focused on in the first half of the class
- The exam will be a list of questions which you chose three of to answer in an essay
format
- The first quiz is up on A2L, due Sept 10th which talked about the lecture on the 7th &
10th
Friday Lecture Notes
- Today's quiz will be about the course syllabus & course outline and what we talked
about in today's lecture
- A variety of definitions can apply to one word, this is not a course where you will
repeat definitions
- Government is a specialized activity when governing individuals make and enforce
public decisions that are binding upon the whole community
- Game theory is establishing rules that are assumed to be true and then seeing what
happens to come to a conclusion
- We will assume that people are individually rational
- When there are no above-level rules that decide how people will behave, with these
two rules, what should happen?
- The prisoner's dilemma shows that people will do irrational things in spite of
assuming they as rational
- An argument for the existence of government is that individuals don't always act
rationally, and so a collective is needed to make rational things happen
- Types of political power:
- Coercion is the ability to force someone to do something they don't want to
do, no option of free will in this choice
