Posting by JI SOOGEUN - W5

Summary

Politics are not only behavior within civil government but all human groups’ behavior including corporate, academic, religious institutions.

Politics have three features: power, authority, violence. Political power is not limited to politician. Insurgency, corporation, even terrorist group have political power too. Political power influences people. Authority include legitimacy. Legitimate authority is classed as three type by Weber. First type is rational-legal, second is traditional authority, third is charismatic authority. Violence means government has power that force citizen to observe the law.

There are many types of government. Monarchy is simply thought as dynasty. It was a common form of government in the world during the ancient and medieval. In monarchy, head of country has great power. Democracy is run by citizens. Democracy has two major definition. First is that all members of the society have equal access to power. The other is that all members enjoy universally recognized freedoms and liberties. And there is totalitarianism, oligarchy, communist state and theocracy.

There is inequality in politics. First, gender. If women vote, in developed countries, women are underrepresented. Second, age. Young people less vote than older people do. Third, race. Racial and ethnic minorities are less vote than majorities. These phenomenon influenced by ongoing tendency to make voting harder for racial minorities. And there are also existed class, ideology.

 

Interest Thing

Originally I knew just few types of government: monarchy, democracy, communism. But after reading this writing, I know that there are many types of government such as totalitarianism, oligarchy, communist state, theocracy so on.

 

Question

This writing refers to all human groups do politics. Then exactly what behaviors are politics? Just talking with other people is politics? Questioning in class is politics?