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32 Cards in this Set
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authority
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the legal right to have power and enforce rules
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examples of authority
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Police, teacher, principals, courts, parents, etc...
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government
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instituions and officals who behave in an organized way to establish and carryout pulic policy
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examples of gov't
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city council vote to build a new library, a judge strikes down a law as unconstitutional, the president authorizes a military force
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power
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the ability to cause others to behave as they might not otherwise choose to
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ex: of power
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American president, anicent Chinese ruler
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formal authority
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power that comes from position.ower that has been defined in an offical or legal way.
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example of formal authority
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the principal can suspend you, a police officer writes a ticket
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expertise
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pwer that comes from having certain skillls or experince
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ex of expertise
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a batting coach in baseball, a doctor
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coercion
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power that omes from havinf the ability to punish or penalize others
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ex of coercion
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your parents threaten to ground you if your grades don't come up, the use of force
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rewards
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power comes from the power holders ability to give something of value such as money, resonsibility or praise
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ex of rewards
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voters can give a canidate or litical party their vote
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PERSUASION
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POWER COMES FROM HAVING THE ABILITYTO INFLUENCE OTHERS
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ex of persusuion
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your friend always convinces members of your group to choose the social acticity that they desire
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abolsolte power
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when somebody uses power in an unfair self-serving or corruprt way
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quotes on abuse of power
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"Power tend to be corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
"a thirst for absolute power is the natural diease of monarcy" |
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ex of abuse of power
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British rule over the colonies
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legitmacy
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the extent to which a leaders power is seen as being valid and appropriate by the people over whom they govern, In many places where the government is corrupt, the leader is seen as lacking legitimacy
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ex: legitmacy
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Richard Nixon, Kwami Kilpatrick
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early forms of goverment
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leaders throughout history have claimed a "mandate heaven" (1100 BCE China) or "divine rights of kings" (1500 CE Western Europe) that argued leaders were installed by God, or even that they represented God on Earth
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divine Right/ mandate of heaven
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The right to rule was God given monarches didn't have to anwseer to people. Replaced by te social contract theory
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social contracts theory
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proposed by the euro political philosophers Thomas Hibbes and John Locke
Said that there is an unspoken unwritten agreement between people and their leaders. People qilll obey their leader so long as the leaderroectstheir rights. If the lader abuses the people the deal is violated and their legitmac vanishes |
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the purposes of Government and some examples
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1. Maintaining public order
ex: traffic lights 2. Protect life and property Ex: certificate of title 3.Provide public goods ex: School/ Police force/National Parks/ Benches, street lamps |
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quotes on the purposes of government
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"people would be condemed to live in continual fear and danger of violent death" - Thomas Hobbbes
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Public goods key chacateristics
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1. More than one person can cosume them without reducing the amount avaiable to others
2. once a public good is avaible alll people have right to use it |
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Building Blocks oif Government:
-Coercion |
the way that government forces citizens to behave in certain ways
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example of coercion
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the police, courts, prisions, conscription, jury duty, etc...
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Building Blocks of Government:
-The ablity to collect revenue (taxes) |
anything that the government does has to be paid for and the way that the bills are covered through taxes
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nation-states
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geographic area controlled by a single government that also shares a people who have a common culture and language
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ex of nation-states
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United States, Michigan, Novi High school
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