POLITICS AS

GOVERNANCE
 the “government” and “governance” are
interchangeably used, both denoting the exercise
of authority in an organization, institution or state.
Politics is the art of government, the exercise of
control within the society through the making and
enforcement of collective decisions.
Politics as about governing
•being in charge of a community that has an ascribed set of rules and a
physical boundary, be it a state, county, city, province, or country. 
•governing isn’t all about the rules and codes of a society, because they
have been popularly elected and it can be assumed that a majority of
people have decided to agree with them or because they have seized
power through authoritarian means and therefore have solid control over
their population’s beliefs or at the very least the expression of dissenting
beliefs.
Politics as “The Authoritative Allocation of Values for society”

•Late political scientist David Easton once defined politics

as “the authoritative allocation of values. More precisely,
politics (in a representative democracy) is the system
where one group or another gets to determine how
society will operate and can compel adherence to their
set of preferred values through laws, sanctions, and
rewards.
Politics as “ Who Gets What, When, and How”
•In the 1930s, Harold Lasswell reputably defined politics as a competition about who
gets what, when, and how. The core of politics in developed democratic countries
rivets around the money around the rate of taxation and utilization of collected
money.
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