Mid Term Test Flashcards
(24 cards)
The ability to to get something done
Power
The creation of institutions or structures to provide the security that people continually need; the result of the group’s need to institutionalize, or make permanent, it’s power.
Government
An agreement between two groups or individuals to join resources and abilities for a purpose that individually benefits the members of the alliance
Alliances
Mass upsprings focused on the goal of tearing down and replacing the current government
Revolutions
People’s voluntary acceptance of their government and its exercise of authority.
Legitimacy
A system in which people police eachother
Peer policing
A political ideology that maintains that unrestrained individual human reason cannot take the place of long-standing, traditional institutions.
Classic conservatism
A political ideology that advocates for a socialist state through democratic means
democratic socialism
An economic system allowing very little, if any, government involvement, interference, or regulation
Laissez-faire
An economic system based in free market and individual competition for profits
Capitalism
The shared social context from which people make political choices
Political culture
The ability to protect oneself and and ones property
Security
Encompasses the requirement to maintain the survival of the nation state through the use of economic, military, and political power and the exercise of diplomacy
National security
A social mechanism where only a few enforcers are needed to maintain control of the population because the fear of being punished keeps people in line
Self policing
When people hide the way they truly feel while publicly expressing that those in power want them to communicate
Preference falsification
The deliberate isolation of people from eachother in a society to keep them from forming a group that could threaten a leaders hold on power
Atomization
A political ideology that emphasizes the belief that people should be generally free from government constraints or interference
Classic liberalism
A political ideology that advocates, via revolution, a classless, socialists society in which justice and fairness for the whole prevail over the interests of individuals
Communism
A political ideology that argues that within a capitalist system, government should play a role in regulating the economy and removing major inequalities
Reform liberalism
A German economists, theorists, and philosopher most Notable for his works criticizing capitalism and advocating communism, a classless, collective socialists society
Karl Marx
An economic system in which society controls the means of production
Socialism
An economic system under which peasants raise crops and livestock on small plots within the landlords estate and are obligated to give a substantial percentage of their production to the landlord in exchange for their protection
Feudalism
The constitutional government that is a mixture of democracy and oligarchy
Polity
Coordinated group action that is designed to achieve a common goal that individuals acting in their own could not otherwise obtain
Collective action
