PPT-Introduction to Politics

Hobbes Hobbes Wrote Leviathan 1660 Argued that the state of nature is solitary poor nasty brutish and short The best way to protect life is total power in an absolute Monarchy Hobbes. week 15]. Green parties. SOURCE: guardian.co.uk. Green shoots (tee . hee. . hee. ): three subcultures come together. Anti-establishment left-ism of 1960s. Alternative subcultures of 1970s generation. Will Jennings & Gerry Stoker . University of Southampton. @. ProfStoker. @. drjennings. Defining Anti-Politics . Shorthand phrase for “popular disillusionment with mainstream politics and politicians”.. By . Zacharys Anger Gundu, PhD. Dubai Leadership Summit, December, 2011. LEARNING OBJECTIVES. We will get down the bus with these. Destination: Dubai Leadership Summit. The meaning of organizational politics.. American Culture & Society Elective. USW ESL Department, Autumn 2013. Contents. Political parties and elections. Democrats and Republicans. Politics: left wing and right wing. The 2012 elections. Making History Block 4: 1979 and all that. Questions. What happens to the question of 1979 as a turning point if we think about the politics of identity?. Can we trace this history through analysis of popular culture, and here in particular music? And does the emergence of punk in the late 1970s represent a crisis and turning point in this regard?. Building and Staging Politics: Livy and Augustus. Kennedy’s ‘. Augustan and Anti-Augustan…. ’. What . are the problems associated with discussing the ‘. politics. ’ of ancient literature. Tobias Müller, . Department of Politics and International Studies. Why . and . how . do societies come together?. . 2. Hobbes and the origin of contract theory. Historical Background: ”Age of discovery,” Civil war in England and mainland Europe. ? . Andrew . Heywood: Chapter 1, pp. 3-13. . Chapter Outline: . Defining . politics. . Politics as the art of government. Politics as public affairs . Politics as compromise and consensus . Politics as power . Key terms. USA:. US presidency. Domestic politics. Issues within the USA that directly concern citizens, e.g. health . care, gun . control, racial issues.. Electoral mandate. An electoral mandate is the permission granted to a political leader . Essential Question: What is the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state?. Politics . The process by which groups make decisions. Cause of social change. Democratic governments exercise power through the will of the people. Aviva Lee-Parritz, MD. Chief. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Boston Medical Center. Chair and Associate Professor. Boston University School of Medicine. objectives. Self assessment. Understand underpinnings of political intelligence . Syllabus. Dr. Patricia j. woods, ph.d.. Depiction of politicians. Image credit: www.canarytrap.in. TO CONTACT ME:. Office: 222 Anderson Hall. Office hours: 5-6 periods, Monday and Friday in person, by phone, or by Skype. Melancholia: Introduction Justin Clemens Dominiek Hoens At rst sight, politics and melancholia can only appear as an odd couple. Whereas the realm of politics evokes enthusiastic activity and Syllabus. Dr. Patricia j. woods, ph.d.. Depiction of politicians. Image credit: www.canarytrap.in. TO CONTACT ME:. Office: 222 Anderson Hall. Office hours: 5-6 periods, Monday and Friday in person, by phone, or by Skype.