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governance, administration policies  

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  • Some decades ago, in the early 1950s, Harold Lasswell defined politics as “who gets what.” This simple but powerful definition emphasizes the fundamental point that virtually all political action is directed toward using the power of the public sector to allocate goods and services among the members of a society. Some politics is symbolic and emotive, but to some extent even those components of political action may help legitimate the political system and the decisions it must make about allocations of costs and benefits among citizens. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Governance, Administration Policies]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-RP6NFB4T-6

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