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Examples
H1 What is politics?
Politics 1) Politics is what concerns the state: making and enforcing collective policy. 1+2
(contested 2) public affairs: Politics takes place in the public sphere. Public institutions of politics as
concept) government Arena
3) Compromise and consensus: Politics relates to how decisions are made 3+4
with compromise and consensus. politics as
4) Power: broadest definition of politics. Politics is where decisions are made. process
It is a struggle for power
Dimensions of Idea that power can be divided in three dimensions (essay) Lukes
power
Schools of analyses politics:
Philosophical normative questions about what should be? Plato
tradition
Empirical Descriptive/analysing research (developed into positivism)
Bahaviouralism Research should be on basis of quantifiable data
Rational choice Actors act rationally out of self interest
theory
New Revision of concept institution: bit entity but set of rules, hard to change.
institutionalism:
Critical Multiple political views that try to show how the system has a bias against a
approach: minority.
Post-positivism Theory that states there is not one objective reality reality based on
construct.
Post-modernism Change of society from industrial to modern (fragmented/information)