Exam 1: Approaching the Study of Politics

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Power resolves political issues by influencing decision-making and shaping the outcomes of conflicts or disputes. In politics, power can be exercised through various means such as coercion, persuasion, negotiation, and manipulation. Those in positions of authority or with access to resources can use their power to enforce their will, suppress opposition, or incentivize cooperation. Power dynamics also play a significant role in shaping the agendas of political actors and determining the distribution of resources and benefits within society. Ultimately, the use and distribution of power can determine the resolution of political issues by determining who has the ability to shape policies, make decisions, and enforce their preferences.

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The pluralist approach would assume that students could join together to form an interest group that would lobby for student concerns, including lower tuition rates. The pluralist argument would continue, however, that if student organizations were larger and stronger, and if student identities led them to take a more aggressive part in the political system, they might have greater success.The class analysis approach would first examine the class composition of the postsecondary educational cohort-in particular, what proportion of such students come from the less affluent levels of society? Do high tuition fees and inadequate financial assistance programs keep lower-income students out? Second, much depends on whether the bourgeoisie believe that the state should pursue student-friendly policies. Well-educated students are an asset to the corporate elite, and if they can be hired fully trained, it will save corporations money. Since corporations provide much employment for this group as well as others, grateful politicians will be responsive to their concerns on these as well as other issues. Third, attitudes toward student concerns on the part of the population as a whole, as well as of many students themselves, will have been influenced by the way such issues are portrayed in the corporate-owned media. Fourth, student protestors, especially on wider issues such as globalization or poverty, may well be victims of coercive actions on the part of the police, but, on the other hand, students can influence the system if they function as a class.Applying the state-centred approach to postsecondary student concerns, such demands would have little effect on the authorities unless the latter were themselves concerned. Student-friendly public policies would depend on the extent to which bureaucrats and/or politicians saw the value in postsecondary education to society as a whole.