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32 Cards in this Set
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All gvts are rooted in ideology -different views about relation to citizens -differences often lie in what life would be like without gvt |
Gvts may look diff but perform similar tasks -fundamentally about regulating society -secutity in numbers, protects us from isolation -important for security and welfare |
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The Process of Gvt |
Gvt must regulate society through rules and regulations -executive, legislative, judicial, administratine |
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Gvt Regulation |
Rules are how a system should be run. not all rules are the same in countries, GVTs are the outcome of politics since political organization leads to structure |
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Shared Objectives of GVT |
-achieve independence, stability, aconomic and social well-being of all citizens
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GVT Legitimacy |
What is lawful, appropritae, proper, conforms to strandards of a political system
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Legitimacy: |
recognition by other political authorities that a gvt is legitimate and rightful for a politica community requires domestic llegitimacy and external recognition 4.2, 4.3 |
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Activities of GVT |
Initially concerned with ssurvival and threat of war More attention now to "welfare benefits" |
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Four main activities: |
1: Economic management 2: Gvt aid and subsidies -payments made be gvt to compensate businesss for inefficiency or lack of comptetition 3: Institutional and dureaucratic regulation 4: Program devlopment and admin |
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Economic managment |
Gvts pass resources from one revenue source to other bodies w/o setting designated requirements as to ther use -diversify econ conditions in canada leads gvt to intervene to distribute wealth box 4.3 |
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GVT Aid and Subsidies |
More active form of intervention -money is provided to groups with regulation on use -subsidy of economic sectors |
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Regulation |
Rules of conduct imposed by gvts on its individual and corporate citizens and their affairs regulating policy on law, econ, scil and political affairs |
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Program Development and Admin |
Beyond supervision and oversight of society -gvt creates and persues Initiatives on their own, "active" gvt role free trade agreement or health care reform |
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Laissez-faire |
reduction in political control will benefit the system -econ and political -gvts should reduce regulatory role individuals should act in their own best intereS |
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Socialism |
gvt not individuals ought to maintain ownership and control -left to themselves individuals would only see self-benefit -suppress interestes for good of all |
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Welfare state |
Laissez faire w/ gvt. regulation -mix -representative of most systems today -private interests run the economy -close relation between gvt and economy |
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Libertarianism |
ideology based on freedom of speeech, action and thought, role of gvt limited, often linked to anarchism, but with a link to gvt |
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Totalitarianism |
complete control by gvt in society, influencing and affecting all aspects of social, econ, and political life |
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Monarchy |
form of gvt with monarch head of state |
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theocracy |
ruled by religious leaders |
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Aristocracy |
Hierarchical elite |
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Despotism |
absolute power and authority |
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Juntas |
Military gvts, usually dictatorships |
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Goals of gvts |
1. Maintain political system 2. Adapt political system 3. Integrate interests and needs 4. Goal setting All mutually independent |
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Constitutions |
"basic law" of a country on which all other laws are based. can be written and unwritten not just democracies "living docs" core of countries political system and tradition -rel'n between gvt and citizens |
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Liberal Democracy |
the people |
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Pluralism |
society in which several disparate groups (minority and maj) maintain their interests and a number of concerns and traditions persists |
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Components of liberal dem. |
-equality of political rights -political participation division of political responsibilities among ruled and rulers -majority rule: all votes considered equa; -political freedom ferdom to part. in process |
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Authoritarianism |
political system requireing absolute obedience to constituted authority Anithesis to liberal democracy: coersion, suppression, and ideology as a tool of control -concentrated power, insulated from external world |
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transitional gvts |
political systems in which the move from authoritarianism to liberal democracy results in elements of both, with a gradual change in democracy |
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Totalitarianism |
authoritarian political system that control not only most social interaction ut also marked by the desire by gvt to forec its objectives and values on citizens in an unlimited manner -ideological control + authoritaianism Ideoloical changes to society to benefit leadership |
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Canada and gvt |
Liberal democracy, constitutional monarchy Monarch rep, by Gov-gen, head of state Prime mInise head of gvt Westminster parliament -Bicameral: house of commons and senate Provinces have unicameral leg. |
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Canada gvt cont. |
Not quite confederak or federal state "quasi-federal ultimate authority rests in central gvt Trading state: highly dependet on us Regulatory state: capitalist with high degree of gvt involvement |
