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40 Cards in this Set
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What does the "public good" usually mean in democratic politics?
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Public policy that benefits society as a whole rather than to favored individuals
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Ideologies :
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"... a rigid closed system of political ideas"
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What are the three broad categories of ideologies discussed in the text?
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Anti-government Ideologies
ideologies of the Right Ideologies of the Left |
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What are the two American approaches to attaining the public good?
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Liberal and Conservative
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Conservatives place primary emphasis on which rights?
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Economic Rights
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Liberals place primary emphasis on which rights?
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Civil Rights
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What opinions are at the root of the differences between liberals and conservatives?
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The role of human nature.
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What are the three components of any ideology?
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Human Nature
Worldview The relationship between government and society |
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Right leaning ideologies see history as a product of what social force?
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Culture
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Left leaning ideologies see history as a product of what social force?
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Economics
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What best describes liberal views on the role of government?
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Activist
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What best describes conservative views on the role of government?
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Minimalist
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A nation's social safety net is also called ________.
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The welfare state
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What kind of economic systems find a balance between state-controlled economies and free-market economies?
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Mixed economies.
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Which ideological leaning places defense of the social order over the promotion of social rights?
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Conservativism
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This theory of the origins of government supports the view that government is only legitimate when it is by the consent of the people governed under it:
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Social contract Theory
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Why are fascism and the Islamic radicalism not ideologies?
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- They are mystical rather than rational
-They are based on emotionalism rather than reason -They do not have a consistent view of the role of government in the economy |
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Which are anti-government ideologies?
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- Libertarian ism
-Anarchism -Nihilism |
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What ideology advocates states "....ownership of all the means of production is the only way to promote prosperity and social equality?
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Marxism- Leninism
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Which ideology promotes the idea of the mixed economy where state and the private sectors jointly own and manage economic producers and service industries having a national scope to promote growth, prosperity, equality, and social stability?
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Democratic Socialism
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What was Lenin's contribution to Marxism?
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- Contributed and analysis of capitalist imperialism to explain the failure of proletarian revolutions in Europe
-Promoted the strategy of telescoping revolutions in the Soviet Union, to establish an industrial revolution in the soviets to advance to the soviet socialist revolution - Lenin's advanced the concept of the communist party as the vanguard party of the masses of working people |
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What was Mao's strategy for socialist revolution in China?
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Mao advocated peasant- based revolution and peasant- based socialism
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What goal did African socialism advocate?
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-To establish a non- Western and non- Asian African- centered socialism that rejected wide scale collectivization and promoted village communalism and local cooperatives
-To integrate traditional African cooperative customs, traditions, and local village rule into socialist ideology -To position Africa as non-aligned by not taking sides in the ideological struggle between the US-USSR during the Cold War |
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What was Stalin's contribution to socialism?
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The concept of building socialism in one country rather than promotion of a simultaneous world socialist revolution
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What is the ultimate goal of revolutionary or scientific socialism?
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Creating the socialist man and woman
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What are the core values of Liberalism?
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-Equal opportunity and majority rule with protection of minority rights.
-Capitalism and individualism -Constitutionalism and rule of law |
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Which ideology was a negative response to the Enlightenment?
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Fascism
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What do the Left and the Right represent?
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Right- Conservatism
Left- Liberalism |
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Where did the terms right and left originate?
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In the French Estates General
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What kind of rights do American conservative champion above all others?
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Negative rights
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What kind of rights do American liberals advocate?
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Positive rights
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Which political concept is an essentially contested concept?
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Freedom and Democracy
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Which are not ideologies?
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Fascism, Islamic fundamentalism, Democracy
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In a democracy, what is the focus of policy debates?
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The means rather than the ends of policy
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What do progressives stand for?
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They are liberals:
- who believe strongly in the well -faring of the people -who are suspicious of corporate power in society and believe corporations should be regulated for the benefit of society at large -believe in equal rights for all the people |
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What are the differences between socialism and communism?
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-Socialism believes in the democratic process to advance its goal while communism believes in revolution to advance its goals
-Socialism believes in working in partnership with capitalists while communists want complete control over the entire economy -Socialism is democratic while communism us totalitarian . |
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What is laizze-faire capitalism?
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Capitalism unfettered by any government regulation or control.
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What concept did John Locke contribute to Liberal theory?
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The concept of the right to own private property
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What concept did John Calvin contribute to Liberal theory ?
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The concept of induvidualism
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What concept did Adam Smith contribute to Liberal theory?
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The concept of capitalism
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