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3 General Qualities of Political Culture
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Awareness of rules, acceptance of political system, expectation of a certain behavior within the system
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Politics of Culture
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The accumulation of beliefs, expectations, and attitudes that are found in all ways of politics
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Political Customs
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Accepted practices that are recognized as part of the system, and reinforced through legal action
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Political beliefs
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Deeply held convictions about political reality
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Political Symbols
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Entities that represent something else
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Political Values
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What they feel is correct/incorrect
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Political Attitudes
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Learned predispositions that relate to issues/events
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Customs made legitimate by long continuing practice
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Political Traditions
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Government
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A developed poltiical elitism by detailing legal codes to keep control
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1 Ruler
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Ideal = kingship
Degenerate = Tyranny |
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A Few Rules
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Ideal =Aristocracy
Degenerate = Oligarchy |
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Majority
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Ideal= Polity
Degenerate = Democracy |
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Aristotle's Democracy
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Rule of many was good as long as its' lawful, pursued common good, respected those who disagreed
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Guardians
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Consists of rulers & non rulers. Rulers =Polity Makers Non Rulers = Civil Servants
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Auxiliaries
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Soldiers
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Machiavelli
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Political behavior should be separated from the ideals. Criteria for behavior is not political success. Human beings are fickle. Be feared, not hated.
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Continualismo
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A strategy to keep an executive in power by changing the constitution
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Imposition
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Tamperng wiht the lection. e.g. Rigging, banning, media control
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Thomas Hobbes
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Human life is nasty, brutish, short. Law must be enforced harshly.
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John Locke
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Humans are reasonable and know right from wrong. Humans are born with certain rights. SOcial contract can be broken. Authority must be in a constitution
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JJ Rousseau
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Blamed treatment of individuals by the rich. Humans are innocent by nature but society corrupts them. Majority may be corrupt
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