1. Summary
This wiki page explains Politics. In
politic, there are three kinds of forces, Power, Authority and Violence. The
authority is divided into three categories
(Rational-legal, Traditional, Charismatic authority) by Max Weber. Moreover,
this page introduces various types of governments, from democracy, which is the
most popular form of government now and monarchy that used common until
medieval century to rather unfamiliar type of totalitarianism, oligarchy and
communist state, theocracy. After description of government type, it explains
political parties with two examples of USA and Sweden. USA has two major
parties, Sweden has multi-party system. Next part is voting patterns and
inequality. Because of various reasons like gender, age, race and class,
inequality must occur.
2. Interesting, new thing
I was interested the part “Power, Authority, and
Violence.” This part divides the force of country to power, authority and
violence. I didn’t think of distinguishing between the powers of the country. So,
this idea is interesting to me. When government get power for use violence to
the public is something needs to think in ‘Violence’ part.
3. Discussion point
The ‘Voting patterns and inequality’ part starts by “In any political system where voting is allowed, some people
are more likely to vote than others (see this Wikipedia article on Voter turnout for more information on
this).” But, is it inevitable result? Isn’t it a result of a lack of national effort? of
course, it would be impossible for the nation to realize complete equality in
the vote. However, many vested interests don’t actively want political participation
in the lower classes. So, sometimes voting rights are limited or voting don’t
have sufficient support. I want another opinion about this topic.
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