After studying this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

1. Describe ways in which the study of politics involves both moral judgment about goals and a scientific understanding of the way politics works.

2. Define the key concept of power.

3. Evaluate the efficacy of the main ideas of the destruction, accommodation, and conversion continuum.

4. Discuss the political game of wipeout.

5. Explain the political game of lion and fox.

6. Describe the political game of civil disobedience.