1. PS1101E/GEK1003
Introduction to Politics
Lecture 2

2. Key terms
• Authority
• Tradition
• Legitimacy
• Rational-legal
• Charisma
•Great Man Theory
• Max Weber

3. Politics
• “the making of decisions by public
means” (Deutsch)
• “(1) politics always involves the making of
common decisions for groups of people and
(2) those decisions are made by some
members of the group exercising power over
other members of the group” (Shively)

4. Power
• the capacity of one person to shape the
behaviour of another?

5. What makes a good leader?

6. Leadership quotations
“What makes leadership is the ability to get
people to do what they don’t want to do and
like it.” --Harry Truman

7. Leadership quotations
“The question, ‘who ought to be boss?,’ is like
asking, ‘who ought to be the tenor in the
quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing
tenor.” -- Henry Ford

8. Leadership quotations
“I have a different vision of leadership. A
leadership is someone who brings people
together.” -- George W. Bush

9. Confucius
500 BCE
Born in Qufu
Public servant

10. Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527
Born in Florence
Civil servant

11. Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad
1925-
Born in Kedah
Malaysian PM, 1981-2003

13. Mahathir the blogger (http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/)
HOW TO MUZZLE YOUR CRITIC
By
Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
on July 30, 2009 3:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (308) | TrackBacks (0)
1. I would like to thank everyone for the comments on the above.
2. Of course I don't like to be criticised. Anyone who says he likes criticism must be a hypocrite.
3. I admit that ever since I became Minister of Education in 1974, through my period as Deputy Prime Minister and then
22 years as Prime Minister I committed a lot of mistakes. I would not be human if I did not.

14. Confucius on leadership
• Know your place
•“ ”
• A lord should act like a lord, a minister
like a minister, a father like a father, and a
son like son.

15. Leaders and virtue
• Confucius: Leaders should possess
virtue
• Machiavelli: forget virtue

16. Ends and means
• Machiavelli vs Confucius
• Machiavelli on love: “for love is preserved by the
link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of
men, is broken at every opportunity for their
advantage”

17. Mahathir on leadership
• Potential leaders = 1,000
• Malaysian population = 27,000,000
• Leaders = 1/27,000, or .0037%

18. Does leadership matter?

19. Great Man Theory

20. Authority

21. Why do people follow an order?
- Force
- Positive incentives
- Rules
- Belief
- Habit?
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22. Authority
Coercion vs authority
Authority: involves a belief that an order
should be followed
Legitimacy
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23. • Charismatic leadership
• Personal obedience to an
individual because of belief
in his/ her special qualities
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24. Legitimate authority of an institution
• Obey because proper procedures were followed
• Impersonal authority
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25. POWER
AUTHORITY COERCION
INSTITUTIONALIZED CHARISMATIC
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26. Three types of authority
• Charismatic
• Traditional
• Rational-legal

27. What is the source of authority for...
• the family?
• court decisions?
• the Pope?
• police officers?

28. For discussion groups
• Do reading before discussion group
• Print and read essay samples from IVLE