Relationship between Government and Business Organizations Government and business institutions in a country in many ways are interrelated and interdependent. . Direct democracy can be contrasted with modern forms of representative democracy, like that practised in Canada. The De-Centring of the State: Terrorism, War, Empire, and Political Exceptionalism, 17.4. A better approach is for all business units and functions to play a role in managing a company's relationship with government. Tepperman, Lorne. New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. 10. The relationships between politics and administration (the plural form is intentional) represent a long-standing theme and have been one of the most widely debated issues since the early days of . Cambridge: MIT Press, Habermas, Jrgen. Winter Retrieved July 21, 2014, from http://www.ghcisocialscience.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/13590293/political_engagement.pdf. Power refers to both anindividuals ability to control or direct others and the capacity each person has to act and create. Government leaders might have this kind of influence as well, but they also have the advantage of wielding power associated with their position in the government. D| 16. 1982. Recent movements and protests that were organized to reform governments and install democratic ideals in northern African and the Middle East have been collectively labelled Arab Spring by journalists. One of the central organizational forums in the development of second-wave feminism in Canada was the formation of Status of Women committees that pressed the Lester Pearson government in the 1960s to establish the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1970). to support theirclaim. On the other side, the insurgent armies compensate for their military weakness with the unpredictable tactics of guerilla war in which maximum damage can be done with a minimum of weaponry (Hardt and Negri 2004). But the events in North Africa remind us that revolutionary political action is always a possibility, not just a rare political occurrence. Which statement best expresses the shift to postmaterialism? Sociology studies government and governmental relationships as ______________. Eisenberg, Andrew. Just as politics talks about governments, institutions, power, order, and the ideals of justice, governance also deals with the public sector, power structures, equity, and ideals of public administration. This is not an accidental circumstance. Vikings attacked continental European tribes in search of loot, and later, European explorers landed on foreign shores to claim the resources of indigenous peoples. Conflicts also arose among competing groups within individual sovereignties, as evidenced by the bloody English and American civil warsandthe Riel Rebellion in Canada. Determining what is and what is not a substantial issue is a crucial component of political communication. Webers Three Types of Authority Max Weber identified and explained three distinct types of authority: Authority resides in the office, not the person, Patrimonialism(traditional positions of authority), Jesus Christ, Hitler, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pierre Trudeau. Power and Authority Sociologists are typically more interested in the underlying social factors contributing to changes in political demand than in the day-by-day strategies of political supply. 2. Administrative officialsserving in the agencies of governmentare tasked with implementing the policies made by elected officials. Democratic Governance principle is "#Governor governs the #Government for #Re_Public" Derive impo. 17.3. B| 17. 1973. Both men relied heavily on the internet to communicate and even went so far as to call it the GPS for the revolution (Pollock 2011). John Pollock (2011), in an authoritative analysis published in MITs Technology Review, gave readers an intriguing introduction to two transformative revolutionaries named Foetus and Waterman, who are leaders in the Tunisian rebel group Takriz. In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), the post-apocalyptic narrative of brewing conflict between the apesdescendants of animal experimentation and genetic manipulationand the remaining humanssurvivors of a human-made ape virus pandemicfollows a familiar political story line of mistrust, enmity, and provocation between opposed camps. Pierre Trudeauused his relative youth, flair, intelligence,and magnetism to call for Canada to become a just society. He is an example of a(n) __________ leader. One of Proudhons famous anarchist slogans was Private property is theft! (Proudhon 1840). Traditional authority is usually understood in the context of pre-modern power relationships. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Chomsky, Noam and Edward Herman. The states and the federal government have both exclusive and concurrent powers, which help to explain the negotiation over the balance of power between them. The difference in the two 20th century world wars is that advances in military technology and the strategy of total war (involving the targeting of civilian as well as military targets) led to a massive increase in casualties. In democratic societies, power and resources are widely distributed, albeit unevenly, so no one group can attain the power to permanently dominate the entire society. In describing the dramatic reform and protests in these regions, journalists have noted the use of internet vehicles such asFacebook, Twitter, and YouTube, some even implying that this technology has been instrumental in spurring these reforms. D| 10. Theoretical Perspectives on Government and Power. London: John Bohn, Negri, Antonio. The symbolic nature of political discourses and political emblems are of course open to manipulation, which is often referred to as image politics. 2013. However, some argue that the formation of a contemporary global order has seen the development of a new unbounded and centre-less type of empire. Secondly, in the transition from an industrial economy to a postindustrial service and knowledge economy, people whose work or educational level promotes high levels of communicative interaction skills (education, social work, health care, cultural production, etc.) It offered a neat solution to the problem of confused and overlapping political jurisdictions in medieval Europe, but is itself inherently unstable. Similarly, a governments power is not necessarily limited to control of its own citizens. However, in recent years, among many other examples we could cite, we have seen how the events of the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt (20102011) put seemingly stable political institutions and processes into question. This has led to a new postmaterialist cleavage structure in political preferences. Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jennifer-a-smith/trudeau-boxing_b_1399696.html, Thomas, Gregory. Revolutions are thus to be distinguished from insurrections, rebellions, revolts, coups, and wars of independence (Huntington 1968, p. 264). 2004. Political life was life oriented toward the good life or toward the collective achievement of noble qualities. Sociology is interested in studying the conditions of such examples of citizenship and power. Certainly the working-class does not vote en masse for the traditional working class party in Canada, the NDP, and voters from the big business, small business, and administrative classes are often divided between the Liberals and Conservatives (Ogmundson 1972). As we defined it earlier, terrorism is the use of violence on civilian populations and institutions to achieve political ends. 1995. Boston: South End Press, Chomsky, Noam. For example, protecting the pornographers freedom of speech enables the continued exploitation, use, and abuse of actual girls and women who often do not have a meaningful choice to refuse such employment.. Against the State. Ideas. (An absolute monarchy is agovernment wherein a monarch has absolute or unmitigated power.) Essays on Freedom and Power. 77-128) in Gerth and Mills From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (NY: Oxford University Press). Empire. Sociologists, however, tend to be more interested ingovernment more generally; that is, the various means and strategies used to direct or conduct the behaviour and actions of others (or of oneself). Toronto: Random House Canada, Galloway, Gloria. Les Affiches de mai 68 ou lImagination graphique by Charles Perussaux (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imagination_Graphique_05_SS.jpg) is in public domain, Figure 17.10. Until the moment of contact, the apes are able govern themselves by a moral code and mutual agreement on decisions. 1985 (1922). While Biden won urban areas with 60% of voters, Trump won rural areas, with 57%. A| 24. The tradition of anarchism developed in Europe in the 19th century in the work of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (18091865), Mikhail Bakunin (18141876), Peter Kropotkin (18421921) and others. On the political stage, especially in the age of mass-mediated interactions, image management and party branding are subject to sophisticated controls, calculations, and communications strategies. 2010 [1887]. Although this incident is the most famous example of political exceptionalism in Canada, there are a number of pieces of legislation and processes that involve the mechanism of localized suspension of the law, notably the use of Ministerial Security Certificates under the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act, which enables the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists; thePublic Works Protection Act, which was used to detain protesters at the Toronto G20 Summit in 2010; and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (2002), which enables the routine confinement and detention of stateless refugees and boat people arriving in Canada. They would observe, for example, that the Canadianpolitical system is a constitutional monarchy divided into three distinct branches of government (legislative, executive, and judicial), and mightexplore how public opinion affects political parties, elections, and the political process in general. The people of the polis take it upon themselves to collectively create a way of living together that is conducive to the achievement of human aspirations and good life. Forrest, William. The abstractness of Parsonss language is both a strength and weakness of the functionalist approach to government and the state. Samuel Huntington defines revolution as: a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of a society, in its political institutions, social structure, leadership, and government activity and policies. Esenwein, George. What is the significance of the different analyses of the state by Marxists, feminists, and Foucaultians. London: New Left Books. How would functionalists criticize critical sociology and symbolic interactionism, and vice versa? In this case, the state is regarded as an institution that can be used to transform gender relations through legislation on sexual equality, maternity leave, access to birth control, reproductive rights, child care, etc. Talcott Parsons(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Talcott-Parsons.jpg) is in CC BY SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en), Figure 17.20. Governance is the system of procedures and policies implemented by politicians elected into office through a culture or process called politics. The United States is a Leading Terrorist State. Monthly Review. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. Political demand and political supply refer to __________________. Theyare part of the legitimation function of the state. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Through the collective action of ordinary citizens, the long-lasting authoritarian regimes of Ben Ali, Gadhafi, and Mubarak were brought to an end through what some called revolution. Not only did the political institutions all of a sudden not function as they had for decades, they were also shown not to be at the centre of political action at all. Politics as trinagular behaviour among #Re_Public, #Governors & #Government of said Democracy/Governance. There is increasing emphasis on the need to create a public image for leaders in electoral campaigns, both by tweaking or manufacturing the personal qualities of political candidatesStephen Harpers sudden propensity for knitted sweaters, Jean Chretians little guy from Shawinigan persona, Jack Laytons moustacheand by character assassinations through the use of negative advertisingStockwell Days scary, narrow-minded fundamentalist characterization, Paul Martins Mr. Constitutional governments often provide a formal mechanism for declaring a state of exception or emergency powers, like the former Canadian War Measures Act. It is a strength in the sense that it enables functionalist sociologists to abstract from particular societies to examine how the function of collective decision making and goal attainment is accomplished in different manners in different types of society. For instance, a person who sees the flashing red and blue lights of a police car in his or her rearview mirror usually pulls to the side of the road without hesitation. 220-221). The words politics and political refer back to the ancient Greek polis or city-state. 17.2. People would live in continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man [would be] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short (1651, p. 113). Government electorates or appointees may get ensnared in politics one way or another. One central tenet of the apes moral identity was that ape does not kill ape, unlike the humans whose society disintegrated into violent conflict following the global pandemic. 2001. 13. Lyall, Sarah. The key point that Goffman makes is that ones identity, face, or impression is not something intrinsic to the individual but is a social phenomenon, radically in the hands of others. The anarchist program was (and still is) to maximize the personal freedoms of individuals by organizing society on the basis of voluntary social arrangements. Only on the basis of the meanings attributed to politics can coherent political courses of action and behaviour be undertaken individually or collectively. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan. Indeed, the concept of power can have decidedly negative connotations, and the term itself is difficult to define. There is a give and take between the attempts of the rulers to direct the behaviour of the ruled and the attempts of the ruled to resist those directions. B| 4. Durkheims functionalism suggests that societal power and structure is predicated on cooperation, interdependence, and shared goals or values. We might also point to the distortions that a valuing ofcharisma introduces into the contemporary political process. Authority refers to accepted powerthat is, power that people agree to follow. Only 62 people were ever charged with offences, and the FLQ cells responsible for the kidnappings did not number more than a handful of individuals (Clment 2008). Schmitt, Carl. In what ways have the activities of supranational agencies, economic agreements, and military alliances been responsible for the decline of sovereignty? So, do image politics, image management, and image events necessarily make democratic will formation less substantial and less issues oriented? The individuals give themselves the responsibility to create the conditions in which the good life can be achieved. Michel Foucault (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michel_Foucault.jpg) used under CC BY SA 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en), Figure 17.21. 43-115 in Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. Noam Chomsky argues, for example, that the United States government is the most significant terrorist organization in the world because of its support for illegal and irregular wars, its backing of authoritarian regimes that use illegitimate violence against their populations, and its history of destabilizing foreign governments and assassinating foreign political leaders (Chomsky 2001; Chomsky and Herman 1979). In this model, the state is an autonomous institution that acts on behalf of society as a whole. Weber, Max. Afghans model village will work as long as Canadian forces stay put. Globe and Mail. Theoretical Perspectives on Government and Power, 17.1. The feminist understanding of the states role in society and gender hierarchies is ambiguous. The root of the word democracy is demos, Greek for people. Democracy is therefore rule by the people. People are more concerned today with Green politics than with social conservatism. legitimation function the role of the state in securing social harmony and the consent of the public to be ruled, monarchya form of government in which a single person, or monarch, rules until that individual dies or abdicates the throne, nation-state a political unit whose boundaries are co-extensive with a society, normalization of militarization the contradictory and tense social process in which civil society organizes itself for the production of violence, oligarchy a form of government in which power is held by a small, elite group, one person, one vote a concept holding that each persons vote should be counted equally, patrimonialism a type of authority wherein military and administrative factions enforce the power of the master, pluralist theory the state acts as a neutral mediator to balance the competing interests and demands of divergent interest groups in society, politics (1) the means by which form is given to the life of a people, politics (2) the activity of striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state, political demand the underlying societal factors and social changes that create constituencies of people with common interests, political supply the strategies and organizational capacities of political parties to deliver an appealing political program to particular constituencies, postmaterialist concerns with quality-of-life issues: personal autonomy, self-expression, environmental integrity, womens rights, gay rights, the meaningfulness of work, habitability of cities, etc, post-security a condition in which lethal violence is present as a constant potentiality, always and everywhere ready to erupt. 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