Administrative decisions - e.g. decisions by the head of a government agency | Advocacy groups |
Arguments about politics | Boycotts |
Charismatic authority - leading based on the strength of your character | Checks and balances - distributing authority to different branches of government to prevent a concentration of power in one person or group |
Civil disobedience - nonviolent refusal to obey something that you disagree with | Civility - the ability to continue to get along and cooperate even where you intensely disagree |
Coercive power - the use of physical force or the possibility of physical force | Compromise |
Corruption - misuse of authority | Creative tension - a group that intensely can't agree on politics that remains civil |
Cronyism - giving friends political power and advantages | Debate |
Discussing political issues in social media | Dollar voting - not spending on firms based on their behavior |
Elections | Executive decisions |
Executive orders | Expert authority - leading based on your knowledge |
Governance - structures that have the authority to remove management | Group harmony - a group that appears to have little political disagreement often due to complacency or intensive groupthink |
Groupthink - an environment where people must pretend to agree with a group or face the wrath of the group | Influencing others |
International agreements | International organizations |
Leadership - the ability to get people following you independent of any formal authority you may have | Legal authority - leading based on the legal right to do so |
Lobbying | Malicious compliance - resistance that is technically compliance |
Management decisions | Media that reports / discusses political issues |
Meetings to discuss what to do | Negotiation |
Organizing political events | Organizing political parties |
Oversight - structures that provide a means to monitor authority and create accountability for misuse of authority | Overturning laws |
Passing laws | Passive aggressive resistance - resisting policies without technically resisting them |
Pitching ideas for change | Political accountability - tying decision authority with the duty to answer to the success or failure of that decision |
Political activism | Political advertising |
Political authority - defining who has the power to make a decision | Political freedoms - basic freedoms such as freedom of speech that allow for political participation |
Political ideology - a set of shared beliefs, values and principles | Political messaging |
Political polarization - politics dominated by two opposing groups that fail to cooperate | Political pragmatism - an environment of compromise, flexibility and realism whereby groups don't agree but get things done nonetheless |
Political strategy - planning how to win power or implement your policies | Political systems |
Power struggles | Presentations that touch on political issues |
Protests | Public speaking that touches on political issues |
Publishing political opinions | Resistance to government policy |
Resistance to management decisions | Revolutions |
Roles & responsibilities | Sidelining - ignoring or not including the opposition to your ideas |
State power - the coercive power of a government such as police forces | Traditional authority - leading based on a long established role such as Mother or Father |
Voting |
| Overview: Politics Examples | ||
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Definition | The process by which groups decide how to act as one. | |
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