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State |
Organization that controls a monopoly of violence over a territory |
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State the significance of "state" |
Needs to be able to be the primary authority over it's territory; passing laws, protecting rights, generating domestic security. |
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Sovereignty |
Ability to carry out actions and policies within a territory independent of external actors and internal rivals |
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Regime |
Fundamental rules and norms of politics |
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State the significance of "regime". |
Embodies long-term goals that guide the state to where power should reside & how it should be used. |
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Government |
Leadership that runs state and all of Merica |
If state is the machinery of politics, and regime is programming, then Government is what controls the machinery |
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State the significance of "govt" |
Govts all hold particular ideas regarding freedom and equality |
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Country |
State, regime, govt. |
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Legitimacy |
Someone/thing recognized and accepted as being right and proper |
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State the significance of "legitimacy" |
Confers authority and power |
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Traditional legitimacy |
Something valid because "it's always been that way" |
Built on history and continuity |
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State the significance of "traditional legitimacy" |
Certain aspects of politics should be accepted because they've been built over a long period of time. |
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Charismatic legitimacy |
Built on the force of ideas embodies by an individual leader |
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State the significance of "charismatic legitimacy" |
Charisma can encompass secular ideas |
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Rational-legal legitimacy |
Based on system of laws and procedures presumed to be neutral/rational |
Politicians in office |
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State the significance of "rational-legal legitimacy" |
People abide by decisions of those in power because those people abide by existing rules. |
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Federalism |
System which significant state powers are devolved to regional/local bodies |
Taxation, lawmaking, and security |
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Asymmetric federalism |
Power divided enevenly between regional bodies |
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Unitary states |
State in which political power exists at a national level with limited local authority. |
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Devolution |
Process where political power is "sent" down to lower levels of state and govt |
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