And so it begins…
0 Why do we need this class?
0 Empirical research
0 Applied v. pure
0 Winners and losers
0 Who votes?
0 Human rights repression
0 Judicial decision-making
0 Effects of campaign ads
Politics
0 What is it?
0 The making of common decisions for a group of people
through the exercise of power by some members of the group
over others
0 Why are we so fascinated?
Collective Action
0 What is collective action?
0 Why does it work/why does it not work?
Power
0 What is power?
0 Coercion, persuasion, construction of incentives
0 How does it relate to authority?
0 Manifest v. implicit?
0 Does it matter which is used?
0 Hard to analyze
0 Hunter v. Dahl v. Bachrach and Baratz v. Digeser
How Do Power and Choice
Relate?
0 Two viewpoints:
0 Politics consists of public choice
0 Politics consists of the use of power
0 Voting example
0 Which is right? When? Why?
So, Again, What is Political
Science?
0 Politics of the state
0 Interpretive v. Behaviorialist
0 Theory
0 Empirical v. normative
The Field
0 American
0 Political behavior, institutions, public law, state/local
0 Comparative
0 IR
0 PA/Policy
0 Theory