Summary
I read about politics on Wikibooks. There are some information about components of politics, voting patterns and politics and ideology.First, government has political power, authority and violence. These three concepts have intimate relation.
Components of politics
Power helps the govenment controls individuals' or other group's behavior.
Authority has three types. That is defined by Max Weber.
1. Rational-legal authority: This authority is allowed by formal rules or laws. Almost democracy countries' government apply this authority type.
2. Traditional authority: This type of authority is continued since long ago and the govenment consolidate their authority.
3. Charismatic authority: Charismatic authority means the leader has exellent leadership and abillity to attract other people. So charismatic leader makes other people obey the leader.
Violence: Sometimes, the government use the violence coerce the individual or other group's complaint or conflict.
The government can get the power from the Authority, and they can use the violence from the power. So the power, authority and violence mutual relation.
Voting patterns
Most democratic countries adopt election system and the leader is elceted by citizen's vote. But one interesting thing is the voting patterns have differnece according to gender, race or ethnic, age and class. First, in the developed country, women are more likely to vote. Second, the older cast a vote more than the young. Third, the minority ethnic and race groups are less likely to vote. Fourth, well-educated group show higher voter turnout.
Politics and ideology
According to recent research, the group who espouse conservative ideology and who advocate progressive ideology are segregated based on ideaology. For example, in korea most conservative ideology group lives in Gyeongsang-do and progressive group lives in Jeonla-do.
I feel that the reason why there is a lower percentage of young people voting is that they are disconnected from the potitical issues that are supposed to affect all citizens in a country, regardless of age.
ReplyDeleteThere is a certain range of age between the legal age to vote and the age they actually vote. This range is the time when young people are more focused on their further studies and social life rather than on society's problems. Once past that age, they then realise how important and influential their vote becomes and thus begin voting.
Solving this may require more potitical education in teenage education, so young people will be better equipped to deal with politics as a member of society.
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ReplyDeleteI'm wondering the same thing. After I read reading material and posted, I thought. I think that young people's voter turnout lower than older people because maybe young people think that situations are same, whomever the people pick as a president.
ReplyDeleteKorea young people lack political awareness. So, we should seek inducement that young people can be concerned politics such as political education.
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