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Political conflict is the incompatibility between social systems with regard to the security of a population, the integrity of a territory, or the maintenance of a political, socioeconomic or cultural, and national or international order. The concept of political conflict therefore does not include phenomena such as domestic violence or homicide.
Summary. Politics is a system for managing social decision making in a diverse group. In that sense politics is a conflict management system. The experience of conflict in politics as painful is due to the fact that the content of political conflict is about the most fundamentally important human needs and values.
In other words, politics is the process through which we live together with and respect those who are different, without us trying to convince them to become ‘like us’, or them trying to convince us to become ‘like them’. It is also the process through which conflict is organised, and in fact made productive, rather than erased.
Political conflicts do not concern individuals as such but groups of various kinds. They involve directly or indirectly state institutions. They require a “political solution”, that is, a solution achieved through discussion and not through violence. The analysis of those features leads us to some reflections on politics and the ...
Political conflicts appear rampant even in single party or dictatorial political systems where rival factions and administrative departments within the same political organization battle for position and power. Of course, the level of conflict in a political system is related to the structure of that system and the degree to which it pits constituencies against one another.
Aug 21, 2016 · If Lipset claims that political legitimacy therefore ‘requires the manifestation of conflict’ (1960:1), it does not mean that political conflict explains political legitimacy, but that suppression of conflict is the breeding ground of political extremisms and of possible crises of legitimacy, that is, ‘symbols of legitimacy’ of the regime are questioned with the rise of sharp cleavages ...
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Crick defines politics as a particular way of resolving conflict – the proportional sharing of power by different interests – and narrows its scope by noting that it takes place ‘within a given unit of rule’ (such as the state). Arguably, Heywood’s definition is broader, extending political activity beyond ‘units of rule’, and ...
