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Module 1 What Is Politics

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Course
POLSCI 1AA3 (POLSCI1AA3)

Institution
McMaster University (mcmasteru)

This document is my lecture notes from the lectures given on module 1, covering Canadian political parties, the course format, and types of political power.

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Uploaded on May 17, 2023
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Written in 2021/2022
Type Class notes
Professor(s) Dr. todd alway
Contains Government power & politics

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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

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