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CHAPTER ONE: POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

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a. In your view, is the essence of politics to be found in making public choices or pursuing private interests?

b. Explore the concepts of, and connections between, power and authority.

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch. 1.

H. Arendt, On Violence

K. Boulding, Three Faces of Power

B. Crick, In Defence of Politics

C. Hay, Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction

M. Haugaard, ed., Power: A Reader

M. Laver, Private Desires, Political Action ( Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage,

1997)

S. Lukes, Power: A Radical View

S. Lukes, ed., Power

W. Shively , Power and Choice: An Introduction to Political Science

E. Watt, Authority