Flashcards in Chapter 1 KTR Deck (38)
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Social Order
-Maximize values/behaviors we think ar important
-Keep the peace
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Legitimate
Accepted as correct (by the people), consent of the governed
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Government
System or organization for exercising authority over body of people
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Authority
Power that citizens view as legitimate
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Institutions
-Where of the political struggle
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Economics
-Concerned specifically with Te production and distributional the society's wealth
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Capitalist economy
All means used to produce material resources are privately owned, decisions left to individual
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Regulated capitalism
Maintains captain economy, individual freedom from government, and allows gov't. to regulate economy and guarantee individual rights
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Procedural Guarantee
Rules work smoothly and fairly (due process, etc.)
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Socialist economy
Economic decisions made by politicians, based on judgement of what society needs
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Substantial Guarantees
What social politicians believe to be fair outcomes
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Social democracy
Believe most property can be privately owned, believe that values of equality can be promoted by socialism and brought by democracy
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Authoritarian
Give ultimate power to the state rather than to the people
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Monarchy
-Authoritarian
-Vests ultimate power in one person, higher power has designated that person's divine representative on earth
-Of person's birth, wealth, or knowledge entitled to position
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Theocracy
-God/deity is sovereign, speaks through voice of earthly appointee
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Fascist Government
-Authoritarian
-State is sovereign, run by dictator for greater good of state
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Oligarchy
-Sovereignty grounded in a party or group
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Totalitarian
System combining authoritarian government with socialist economy
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Authoritarian capitalism
-Economic freedoms, stringent social regulation
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Anarchy
-No government and no laws
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Democracy
-Government is the people
-Try to maximize freedoms for individual
-Provide procedural guarantees to preserve individual rights
-Based on popular sovereignty
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Popular Sovereignty
No power higher than the people
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Elite democracy
-Propose that democracy is system of choosing among competing leaders
-No further input after leader has been chosen
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Pluralist Democracy
-Emphasizes membership in groups that participate in government decision making on their behalf
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Participatory Democracy
-More than consent or majority rule in making governmental decisions is needed
-Individuals have right to control all circumstances of lives
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Advanced Industrial Democracies
Combine personal freedoms with free market economy
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Communist Democracy
Radical democracy would coexist with communally owned property (never existed)
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Social Contract
-People have freedom and rights before government exists
-When decide to have government, give up rights in exchange for protection of other rights
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Republic
-Employs representation and can work in large state
-Choose representatives
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Economic Liberals
-Allow government to make substantive decisions about economy
-Hands-odd individual lives
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Economic Conservatives
-No government intervention in private or economy (a little is okay)
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Libertarians
-FREEEEDUMMMM
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Social Liberals
-Government action realize substantive vision of what society should be like
-Forward looking, adaptive
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Communitarians
-Commit to community-based vision
-Radical equality of all people, all sacrifice for greater good
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Social Conservatives
-Limited government involvement in economy, with less force
-Concerned with moral tone of life (substantive set of laws to create moral order)
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Analysis:
-Who
-What
-How
-Who: Are the parties involved? Resources, powers, rights?
-What: Do they have at stake?
-How: Do the rules shape the outcome?
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Conservatives
-Favor traditional social values, distrust government.
-Place priority on maintenance of social order
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