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41 Cards in this Set
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seperation of power |
devision of power among several government institutions reg.legislature, executive to avoid concentration of authority.age |
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agency |
individual or group action in a social context Concept |
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concept |
General idea emerging from events or instances |
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Welfare |
Legislation or social action taken to provide citizens with physical , financial, health or other assistance |
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license |
unlimited freedom to do as one pleases |
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community |
social , political , cultural and economic ties that bind individuals to one another |
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policy |
law or principle of performance adopted by government |
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body politic |
entirety of a political community |
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freedom |
ability to act without constraint |
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negative Liberty |
areas of activity in which governments do not interfere and an individual is free to choose |
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positive Liberty |
Freedom to achieve one's full potential |
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laws |
rules imposed by the governing authority |
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Legitimacy |
what is lawful,proper and conforms to the standards of a political system |
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Legislation |
laws enacted by a governing authority |
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war |
use of armed forces in conflict with an enemy |
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identity |
a persons understanding and expression of their individuality or group membership |
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values |
principles,standards, what and individual or community esteems as meaningful |
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equality |
parity in a political system |
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social order |
recognized structure of power , responsibility and Liberty |
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security |
freedom from danger or injury |
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authority |
power or right to force obedience |
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international system |
system of two or more actors that interact regularly in the final arena , using established processes in given issue areas |
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tyranny |
government by a single ruler who uses power to his own benefit |
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monarchy |
form of governance meant by a single ruler who holds at least nominally absolute power |
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democracy |
political system based on the principle that governance requires the assent of all citizens throught participation |
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order |
condition in which both units and interaction working a political system are marked by regularity and stability with the imposition of accepted and enforced rules structures and practices |
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rights |
socially acceptable morally correct and just priveleges granted to members of a political community |
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leadership |
groups of individuals that lead society |
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Liberty |
freedom from despotic control |
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progress |
advancement in society towards a better and improved state of affairs an integral element of liberal political theory |
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justice |
state of affairs invading the maintenance of what is right and fair whithin a society |
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social justice |
equitable distribution of goods and values whithin society |
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duties |
responsibilities to protect rights |
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economic justice |
redistribution of economic resources from certain groups to others ( money from the rich goes to the poor) |
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nation state |
autonomous political unit of people who share a predominant common culture , language ethnicity and history |
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nation |
group of people who share an identity |
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sovereigny |
recognition by other political authorities that government is legitimate and for a political community |
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state |
recognized political unit considered to be sovereign with a defined territory , people and governement |
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institutions |
groupings that have developed to attend to different societal needs |
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organizations |
structures relation existing wishing a political community that are established to distribute the responsibilities and priveleges that arise from formal associations with others |
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system |
group of individual entity or actors that interact with each other to form an integrated hole |
