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Empowering Decision-Making: Understanding Politics and Choice

Explore the intersection of power and choice in political science, from empirical research to collective action and human rights repression. Delve into the dynamics of political behavior, institutions, and more.

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Empowering Decision-Making: Understanding Politics and Choice

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  1. Power and Choice

  2. And so it begins… • Why do we need this class? • Empirical research • Applied v. pure • Winners and losers • Who votes? • Human rights repression • Judicial decision-making • Effects of campaign ads

  3. Politics • What is it? • The making of common decisions for a group of people through the exercise of power by some members of the group over others • Why are we so fascinated?

  4. Collective Action • What is collective action? • Why does it work/why does it not work?

  5. Power • What is power? • Coercion, persuasion, construction of incentives • How does it relate to authority? • Manifest v. implicit? • Does it matter which is used? • Hard to analyze • Hunter v. Dahl v. Bachrach and Baratz v. Digeser

  6. How Do Power and Choice Relate? • Two viewpoints: • Politics consists of public choice • Politics consists of the use of power • Voting example • Which is right? When? Why?

  7. So, Again, What is Political Science? • Politics of the state • Interpretive v. Behaviorialist • Theory • Empirical v. normative

  8. The Field • American • Political behavior, institutions, public law, state/local • Comparative • IR • PA/Policy • Theory

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