,Summary chapter 1-7, 9-10, 12-17, 19-20
Chapter 1.
• 1775 Samuel Johnson: Politics is nothing more than a means of rising in the world
Politics:
1. Location in which case behaviour becomes ‘political’ of where it takes place
2. Process in which case ‘political’ behaviour is behaviour that exhibits distinctive qualities
and can take place in any social context.
3. Bernard Crick: ‘Defence of politics’
a. Politics = differing interests within a given unit of rule are conciliated by giving them
a share in power in proportion to their importance
4. Adrian Leftwich: Politics as power
a. Politics in essence = Power
b. Power = The ability to achieve a desired outcome, through whatever it means
• Bismarck: Politics is not a science, but an art => The exercise of control within society
through the making and enforcement of collective decisions
• Polis = City state
• Politics = Affairs of the polis
• David Easton: Authorative allocation of values
• Polity = A system of social organization centred on the machinery of government
Public and private polity:
There are two views in the divergence between public and private polity
Public Private
1 Apparatus of government Autonomous bodies: Business,
trade unions, clubs, family,
and so on…
2 Public realm: Politics, commerce, work, art, culture Personal realm: Family and
domestic life
, • Power:
o Power as decision- making
o Power as agenda setting
o Power as thought control
▪ Propaganda
Chapter 1.
• 1775 Samuel Johnson: Politics is nothing more than a means of rising in the world
Politics:
1. Location in which case behaviour becomes ‘political’ of where it takes place
2. Process in which case ‘political’ behaviour is behaviour that exhibits distinctive qualities
and can take place in any social context.
3. Bernard Crick: ‘Defence of politics’
a. Politics = differing interests within a given unit of rule are conciliated by giving them
a share in power in proportion to their importance
4. Adrian Leftwich: Politics as power
a. Politics in essence = Power
b. Power = The ability to achieve a desired outcome, through whatever it means
• Bismarck: Politics is not a science, but an art => The exercise of control within society
through the making and enforcement of collective decisions
• Polis = City state
• Politics = Affairs of the polis
• David Easton: Authorative allocation of values
• Polity = A system of social organization centred on the machinery of government
Public and private polity:
There are two views in the divergence between public and private polity
Public Private
1 Apparatus of government Autonomous bodies: Business,
trade unions, clubs, family,
and so on…
2 Public realm: Politics, commerce, work, art, culture Personal realm: Family and
domestic life
, • Power:
o Power as decision- making
o Power as agenda setting
o Power as thought control
▪ Propaganda
