What principles are important for understanding California politics?
What will be an ideal response?
1. Choices: choices are at the heart of politics. To elaborate, everyone makes choices in a political system; successful political system provides a process for narrowing choices to a manageable number and allows many participants to reconcile their differences as they make choices together. 2. Political culture: every system has a distinct culture that reflects the decisions that emerge from a political process, decisions that together express a political community's customs, values, and beliefs about government. 3. Institutions: institutions bring people together to solve problems on behalf of society. They are arrangements that manage conflict, define roles and rules for those who participate in them, and organize action by facilitating compromises, trade-offs, or bargains that lead to acceptable solutions or alternatives. 4. Collective action: the concept of working together to solve problems and allocating goods or values for a society. 5. Rules: rules matter, because they define who has power and how they may legitimately use it; rules create incentives for action or inaction. 6. History: history shapes the opportunities and incentives for political action (decisions often build on prior ones).
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