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1 Power. Power. If your instructor instructs you to sit in alphabetical order, would you? Probably, even if you didn’t really want to Why? Because the instructor has power over you Of what type? Grades, expulsion, etc. Power. What power does a student have over the instructor?

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  1. 1Power

  2. Power • If your instructor instructs you to sit in alphabetical order, would you? • Probably, even if you didn’t really want to • Why? • Because the instructor has power over you • Of what type? • Grades, expulsion, etc.

  3. Power • What power does a student have over the instructor? • He could not enroll, face the back of the room, boycott, complain to the Dean, etc. • How could this student be more effective? • If he could get the rest of the class to join with him in his act of civil disobedience • Power never flows only in one direction

  4. Power • Power is the ability to get something done • Power is the key variable in politics • Power is often associated with the use of force • However, power is often employed much more subtly

  5. Power • Political Science differs from other sciences in part because of its emphasis on power (Machiavelli) • Politics determines how power will be exercised; Politics Matters • Will we go to war? Who will Fight? • Who have to pay taxes and who will avoid them? • Who will amass wealth and who will have their wages frozen? • Public Policy allows for the repeated exercise of power

  6. Liberty v. Order • Politics essentially decides the tradeoff between Order and Freedom • We like both but can’t have maximum amounts of both • Where this tradeoff lies is the central feature of any political system

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