Nieves Micolta
Class: POL 166
Professor: Barry Murdaco
Lehman College
Reflection Essay On Power
“Power has been observed in different ways by political scientists and sociologist”according to Bachrach and Baratz in 1962. In the other hand, sociologist find that power is “highly centralized” while political scientists describe it as “widely diffused.” Basically, “power is divided between different groups”(dahls). A familiar American example is the division of power between the federal and state governments. America governance is a hybrid arrangement that combines elements of both centralized and decentralized political system.
This passage makes me understand why is the reason to pay two difference income taxes (federal and State); and where do my income tax money go. In addition, the government has the power to obligate all the citizen and residents of the united states to follow this rule. Likewise some people do not agree with this because they think the government uses our money for unnecessary things, like wars that only causes more innocents dead and conflicts between nations, instead to invest the money in education, for examples more after school programs etc…
I chose this passage about power because as citizen I see a lot of injustice. That’s not fair that the upper class always gets the benefit of all our effort and the lower class has to keep working everyday, follow rules and we never gets anything for it. An example is the public transportation, that’s the worse service in new york city, the most of time dirty and homeless sleeping on the sits etc. Moreover, some people believe that government power does not work as much as they pertained.
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