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What is politics?
Prof. Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza, PhD
Department of Political Science
Ateneo De Manila University
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“The word „politics‟ is derived
from the word „poly‟, meaning
„many‟, and the word „ticks‟,
meaning „bloodsucking
parasites‟”.
(Larry Hardiman in Planet
Dexter’s This Book Really
Sucks, 1999)
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“a study of the authoritative
allocation of public values or
resources for a society”
(David Easton)
Well, seriously --- ‘politics’ is…
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“a study of who gets what, when,
and how”
(Harold Lasswell)
or is…
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“any persistent patterns of human
relationship that involve to a
significant extent control, power,
influence and authority”
(Robert Dahl)
or about…
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4 Core Concepts in the Study of
Politics
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(1) Power...
relational
intentional
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“the ability of person A to make
person B do something minus
the probability that person B
would do it on her/his own
accord”
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For non-compliance...
• There is a threat of sanction;
• as Niccolo Machiavelli said, “it is
better to be feared than loved...
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(2) Influence...
•An informal form
of power
•No threat of sanction
•No severe
deprivation for
non-conformity
•Opposite of Machiavellian
thought, “it is better to be
loved than feared”
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(3) Authority...
•Right to exercise power
and influence because of
a particular position
•Placed in the position
through a widely
accepted procedure
• e.g. elections
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(4) Legitimacy...
•Being considered to be
correctly placed in a
particular position
•Carrying out the
functions of that role
correctly
• has moral acceptability
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Political legitimacy...
• Government‟s rule is valid
• government should generally be obeyed
• legitimacy is not automatic for it is created
over a long period of time
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Conceptual Bounds of the
„Political‟
‘Political’ ‘Extra-Political’
Public Private
Governmental Extra-governmental
State Society
institutional personal
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Political Puzzles: Approaches
• Studying political behavior
• Studying political structures and functions
• Studying political phenomena
• Studying political ideas
• Studying political documents
• Studying the political future