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21 Cards in this Set
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Shively
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Power= the ability of one person to choose another to do what one wishes by whatever means
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Thomas Hobbes
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People are agressive, tolerant anti social
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Aristotle
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People are social and intersted in others
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Social contract theorists
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John Locke, Jean Jaques Rosseau
STATE of NATURE=STATE of WAR |
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Hobbes
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People running around on their own stealing, threatening, killing
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Manifest power
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based on observable actions by A to get B to do what A wants
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Implicit power
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no observable words or actions to get B to do A's bidding
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Radicals
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Power has many dimensions
1.) Observable 2.)Decisions made about what is going to be discussed in politics (deciding what gets decided and when) 3.)Thought control (brainwashing, conditioning) 4.)Michel Foulcault- Power/Knowledge |
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IDEOLOGIES
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- organized set of ideas that helps us make sense out of politics for ourselves and to present arguments affectively in public
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Liberalism
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highest goal of society is for individuals to develop their capacities to highest extent
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Class
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- group that shares relationship with ‘means of production’
Owner- (CAPITALISTS) ‘upper class’ Workers- (LABOR) live by selling labor upon the means of production for less that its value |
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Authority and Sovereignty
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(the authority of a state to govern itself or another)
Authorities is a special kind of power based on a general agreement 1.)Person or group issue certain commands 2.)Those commands should be obeyed |
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Legitimacy and sources
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collective feeling that the state has right to undertake actions that it has
Sources 1.)Legitimacy by results “train runs on time” 2.)Legitimacy by habit 3.)Association with others 4.)Procedures 5.)People (you)= supreme source of government authority |
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Characteristics of people in a democracy
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1.)Tolerance
2.)Participation- vote and letters 3.)Sustain a high level of interest in politics 4.)Citizens are supportive of state they live under |
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Non- democracies (Autocracies)
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1.)Military government
2.)One party state 3.)“Court” politics |
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Nation
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group of people who are bound together and recognize a similarity among themselves because of a common culture or language
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State
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Political unit that has sovereign authority within its borders
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Constitutions
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rules by which power is distributed among members of a state
1.)Decide where power will be located EX: all power in central government |
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Unitary government-
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one that keeps all power centrally
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Federated government
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- local authorities have monopoly on certain political decisions
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CONSTITUTIONALISM
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degree to which leaders adhere to rules that are written in the constitution
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