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POLITICAL SCIENCE : AMERICAN GOVERNMENT FALL 2015 MONDAY 6:30-9:15 PM, OWENS 103

 Bancroft 340  (Mailing address Bancroft 346)  (803)    Office Hours M 3:30-6:00, TR 2:00-3:15, or by appointment

Susan Welch, John Gruhl, Sue Thomas and Maryanne Borrelli Understanding American Government Fourteenth Edition, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2014.

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 Name  What do you like to be called?  Where are you from?  Do you have any experience in politics or government?  Why are you taking this class? (Constitution requirement, prospective political science major, general interest, etc.)

 The use of scientific methods to study some aspect of society (human beings and their interactions).  Anthropology  Economics  History  Political Science  Psychology  Sociology  Etc.

 Study of power and the organization of power  Harold Lasswell: “Who gets what, when and how.”  Power: Creation and enforcement of laws and rules deciding  What you have the right to do (MAY)  What you have the obligation to do (MUST)  What you’re prohibited from doing (MAY NOT)

 Use of the scientific method to:  Observe: “What’s happening?”  Explain: “Why is it happening? Why is it happening that way ?”  Predict: “What’s going to happen?”

 Do whatever you want  No rules, no laws, no restrictions  Unlimited right to acquire property  What’s the problem?

 No way to protect your own property or otherwise prevent your rights from being violated  What’s the answer?

 Government in a free society exists to make and enforce laws in a way that protects the rights of the people  Power to make rules and laws gives you a great deal of power over others’ lives  Imprisonment  Taxation  Etc.

 Divine Right  Monarch endowed by God with power  Democracy  People govern directly  Republic/Indirect Democracy  People choose leaders who make decisions  Dictatorship  I make the rules because I have the biggest gun.

 m/elections/2016- presidential-quiz m/elections/2016- presidential-quiz  Did your results surprise you?  Theories of power