Theories

• Politics

  • exercise of power
  • making of political decisions
  • the practice of deception and manipulation
  • exercise of authority
  • allocation of limited resources
• Politics

  • study that tries to complement extreme power and interests in the society.
• Politics

  • an art and science in harmonizing both ends together in the name of consensus and compromise.
• Two main things to consider in defining the characteristics of politics:

  1. making a common/uniform decision applying to all members
  2. use of force to affect the behavior of another person.
• Politics

  • a central concept that runs in the hearts of a state.
• Politics is not only about the institutions and channels of government but rather more about the persons working either directly or indirectly in the affairs of the government.
• Wherever there is any government, there must be politics.
• Thomas Mann

  • called the 20th century the "age of politics".
• Harold Lasswell

  • referred politics as the study of who gets what, when, and how.
• Harold Lasswell

  • politics is the attempt to understand influence and the influential
• Robert Dahl

  • emphasized that politics fundamentally involves the study of influence, power, and authority.
• Robert Dahl

  • “Politics arises, then, whenever they are involved in conflicts and whenever they are subject to some kind of power, rulership, or authority.”
• Hans Morgenthau

  • politics is the struggle for power
• Bertram Gross

  • political process includes the activities of people in various groups as they struggle for and use of power to achieve personal and group purposes.
• Political process

  • involves the struggle for power among contending political actors who are guided by particular interests emanating from historically specific social relations.
• political system

  • arena where political dynamics takes place
• Politics

  • activity through which contending interests are conciliated and differences are expressed and considered.
• Through politics, the collective welfare is supposed to be advanced and survival of the community protected.
• Other authors define politics as the science of civil government; the art of governing other people.
• Politics is not confined to formal institutions, and can occur in any organized group
• Perspectives:

  1. Political Science Perspective
  2. Sociological Perspective
  3. Philosophical Perspective
  4. Practical Perspective
  5. Comparative Perspective
  6. International Perspective
• Political Science Perspective

  • politics is the study of power and governance
• Political Science Perspective

  • examines how political institutions, behaviors, and systems operate and how they impact societies.
• Sociological Perspective

  • politics is a social process that involves power dynamics and social structures.
• Sociological Perspective

  • explores how political is distributed and exercised within different social contexts.
• Philosophical Perspective

  • concerned with the ethical and normative dimensions of governance and public life.
• Practical Perspectives

  • politics is often associated with political parties, electoral systems, and government operations.
• Comparative Perspective

  • studying different political systems and cultures to understand how they function and how they differ.
• International Perspective

  • International politics or international relations
  • examines how countries interact with each other on global stage
• Political Science

  • study of the state and government.
• Political Science

  • study of how organized disputes are articulated and then resolved by public decisions made by government.
• "political"

  • comes from the Greek word 'polis', which means a city-state.
• polis

  • only form of government known to ancient greeks
• "ciencia"

  • means knowledge or study
• Rodee (1980)

  • defined political science as a branch of social science that deals with the theory, organization, government, and practice of the state
• Political science

  • also deals with those relations among men and groups, which are subject to control by the state, and with relations of the state to other states.
• Political Science

  • systematic study of the state and government
• polis

  • what today would be the equivalent of a sovereign state
• science

  • comes from to know
• The Science of Politics

  • has its formal object, a basic knowledge and understanding of the state, the principles and ideals which underlie its organization and activities