Chapter 1: Power and Politics Flashcards
In Aristotle’s definition of politics, he states that “Man, is by nature a political animal”. What does he mean by this?
Politics is ever present, and all people are political.
Whenever two people come together and interact, there is some form of ___.
Politics.
Politics informs how we think about ___, ___, and ___.
Ourselves, others, and the world.
Politics is constantly ___.
Shifting.
Politics is about the ___ and ___ of power.
Negotiation and exercise.
Politics is:
Ever present, relational, negotiating, decision making, and power.
There are two types of power: what are they?
Power to and power over.
Politics tries to understand the intricacies of ___ ___, how people ___ to get what they want, and what will happen in the ___.
Public relations, negotiate, future.
Give an example of the unpredictability of politics.
An assassination of a Tunisian street merchant sparked the Arab Spring and ended two regimes.
For Karl Mannheim, what were at the very heart of politics?
Unpredictability and uncertainty.
Karl Mannheim also drew a clear distinction between ___ and ___.
Administration and politics.
Mannheim described administration as:
Routine affairs of the state.
Mannheim insisted that politics involved:
The play of irrational forces, social competition, and struggle.
