After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• Describe ways in which the study of politics involves both moral judgment about goals and a scientific understanding of the way politics works.
   
• Define the key concept of power.
   
• Evaluate the efficacy of the main ideas of the destruction, accommodation, and conversion continuum.
   
• Discuss the political game of wipeout.
   
• Explain the political game of lion and fox.
   
• Describe the political game of civil disobedience.