politics/week5/Ami Kim

1.       Summary

Politics is the process of a group of people making socio-economic decisions. Politics can be seen not only in civilian governments but also in all human-group interactions, including businesses, academia and religious institutions. There are various forms of government, including monarchy, democracy, totalitarianism, oligarchy, communism, and new government. There are usually political parties in the government that are political organizations that want to acquire and maintain political power by participating in the election campaign. In the U.S. political parties, they are more loosely organized than those of other countries and, as a result, the central organization is weak and has few central ideologies except for consensus. Sweden also has a multi-party system (a system in which more than one party has the power to control the government separately or in a coalition), and neither party often has the opportunity to gain power, and parties must work together to form a united government. Political systems allow voting, so some people have easier access to political power. However, the recent increase in media consumption has raised distrust in the government and democracy.

2.       What is interesting / what did you learn

I learned about political parties in many countries (U.S., Sweden). Each country learned about unfamiliar terms that were run by some political system and related to politics. It was also interesting that many social networks and large corporations knew that people trust information received from family and friends rather than from news, and used someone's social network members to target ads for that individual to take advantage of them.

3.       Discussion point

Why has the conflict between those who support conservative ideology and those who support progressive ideology intensified in politics these days?