ABSTRACT
Most generally, politics has to do with the activities through which human actors try to realize their goals by influencing other human actors. This generic sort of politics occurs everywhere, in all arenas of human life, and pretty much all of the time. Thus, there is a politics of the family, of the church, of the university, of the street, that helps to explain, in the famous Harold Lasswell definition, who gets what, when, and how, in those arenas.1
