Presented by-ARIJIT SAHA

Branch- Automobile
NECESSITY OF EDUCATION
IN POLITICS
 VIEWS ON POLITICS
 "My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in
a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth,
there's hardly any difference."
-- Harry S. Truman, US President (1945-52)
 "Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
-- Lester B. Pearson, Canadian PM (1963-68)
 "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics
with bloodshed."
-- Mao Zedong, Chairman of People’s Republic of China
 "Politics is the art of the possible."
-- Otto Von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany
 "Man is by nature a political animal."
-- Aristotle
 "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a
contest of principles."
- Ambrose Bierce, American journalist
 "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking
part in affairs which properly concern them."
-- Paul Valery, French writer and philosopher
 "The mistake a lot of politicians make is in
forgetting they've been appointed and thinking
they've been anointed."
-- Claude D. Pepper, US Senator
The American public’s reactions to the behaviour of their leaders in the
debt/budget battle in Washington, July-Aug 2011, Pew Research poll:
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2078/debt-ceiling-limits-budget-deficit-tea-
party-republicans-obama-democrats-republicans-ridiculous
 Some common definitions of politics:*
 Politics is the exercise of power
 Politics is the public allocation of values
 Politics is the resolution of conflict
 Politics is the competition among individuals,
groups, or states pursuing their interests
*Danziger, James N. Understanding the Political World. NY: Addison-
Wesley, 1991
Politics is often understood as:
The art and science of GOVERNMENT, as affairs of STATE
But:
• The state is rooted in society.
• The state maintains a particular social order.
• Politics outside the state is important.
• Interactions between state and society are at the core
of politics.
So, to understand politics, it has to be examined
As part of the entire fabric of SOCIAL RELATIONS –
cooperation and conflicts between individuals, groups,
classes.
 POLITICS AS CONFLICT -

• As struggle for power.

• Politics is driven by selfish interests of individuals, groups,
businesses, states.
• More natural for the thinking of those who would like to
change the status quo in their favour.
 CONFLICT IN
ASSEMBLIES
How to MANAGE

 Planning
 Organizing
 Directing
 Controlling
?
How to Control ?
 Intelligence  Personality
◦ More ◦ Verbal
intelligent facility
than non-
leaders ◦ Honesty
◦ Scholarship ◦ Initiative
◦ Knowledge ◦ Aggressive
◦ Being able to ◦ Self-
get things confident
done
◦ Ambitious
 Physical ◦ Originality
 Delegating  Selling
◦ Low ◦ High task/high
relationship/ relationship
low task ◦ Explain
◦ Responsibility decisions
◦ Willing ◦ Willing but
employees unable
 Participating  Telling
◦ High ◦ High
relationship/ Task/Low
low task relationship
 CONCLUSION

“Power to” conveys the idea of one’s ability to

realize one’s goals without coercing others
Individually, by exercising one’s freedom
Or collectively, by joining with others in a
free and voluntary way
Associated with visions of a good society, based on
the ideals of freedom, equality, justice, solidarity,
democracy