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What are three forms of analysis?

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  • Empirical
  • Normative
  • Policy
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Empirical analysis

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Explaining trends

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Normative analysis

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Questions about values

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Policy analysis

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Evaluation of existing policy/prescription for alternative policy

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Politics

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Authoritative allocation of resources in a given political community

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Political Capitol

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Being in the favour of other political communities

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What are three types of power?

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  • Hard
  • Soft
  • Smart
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Hard power

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Use of coercion by military or harm (type of power)

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Soft power

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Use of persuasion by attraction, or moral or ethical standing (type of power)

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Smart power

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Use of ideas (type of power)

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What are three ways that power is distributed?

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  • Structure
  • Mobilisation
  • Resources
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What are three faces of power?

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  • Affecting decisions
  • Controlling agenda
  • Influencing ideas
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Positive and negative impacts of power

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+ Cooperation

- Dominance

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Mobilisation

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Grassroots movements (distribution of power)

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Structure

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Basic normative decision (distribution of power)

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Resources

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Wealth (distribution of power)

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Domestic political organization are

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Hierarchical

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International political organizations are

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Anarchical

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What are three ideal types of authority according to Weber?

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  • Charismatic
  • Traditional
  • Legal-rational
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Charismatic authority

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People consent to authority because of a person

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Traditional authority

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Authority by existing structures

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Legal-rational authority

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The limits, the basis and expectation for government

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Ethnic nationalism

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Law of the blood; who your ancestors are is most important

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Civic nationalism

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Law of the land; where you are from is most important

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Citizenship
Identifies duty to the state; rights and obligations
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Economic globalization
Rise of international market and deregulation of trade
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Cultural globalization
Rise of cultural appropriation, converging values and norms
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Political globalization
Rise of eurocentric values, international forums, institutionalized racism
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State of nature
Life is better with no order
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Society of states
Life is better with basic rules
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Why does power, order and legitimacy matter?
Legitimate Authority Reduces the Cost of Exercising Power | International Level
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Three Citizen rights
- Civil - Social - Political
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Three Citizen obligations
- Law - Military service - Voting
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Liberal idea of human nature
We are rational and competitive: freedom + rationality = progress, we need equality
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Neo-classical idea of government
Small government; purpose is to protect freedom and property, individual knows best
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Neo-classical liberal history
In opposition to rigid structures of authority
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Welfare liberal history
Response to capitalism and obstacles to realizing potential; poverty, illness, prejudice, ignorance
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Welfare liberal idea of government
Purpose is to regulate and provide social welfare (both positive and negative rights), meaningful freedom
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Conservative idea of human nature
People are naturally flawed and must be socialized
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Negative rights
Absence of restraints
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Positive rights
Freedom to actualize potential
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Conservative history
Reaction to change; balance individual impulse with tradition
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Conservative idea of government
Purpose is to create freedom as ordered liberty, protect against radical ideas and destructive innovation
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Socialist idea of human nature
People are communal and social, we need equity
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Socialist history
Reaction to liberalism; objects to focus on self-interest
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Socialist idea of government
Purpose is to control goods for collective benefits, relieve poverty so people can actualize their potential
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Fascist idea of human nature
People do not need reason, the individual is fulfilled by the glory of the state
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Fascist history
Reaction liberalism and socialism in WWI
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Fascist idea of government
Purpose is to transform society and absorb individuals into a whole by indoctrinating the people, industrialization, and militarization
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CRAP
- Currency - Relevance - Authority - Accuracy - Purpose
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Indicators of fascism
- Hyper nationalism/self-definition by opposition - Militarism/glorification of violence/fetishizes youth and masculinity - Leader cult/theatricality/hierarchical structure - Reactionary/mass mobilization
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Feminism
- out of liberal ideology - seeks equality of status and opportunity - seeks to eliminate discriminatory practices
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Goals of identity politics
- Awareness - Emancipation - Recognition of worth
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Three types of feminism:
- liberal - socialist - radical
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Goal of liberal feminism
Legal equality
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Goal of socialist feminism
Change societal and economic structures
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Goal of radical feminism
Fundamentally change structural violence
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Environmentalism
Root problem of environmental problems is that nature is a resource for human consumption
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Eco-centrism
Nature has intrinsic value
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4 forms of environmentalism
- Reform - Free-market - Deep ecology - Social ecology and eco-femisim
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Reform environmentalism
The solution is better science, technology and environmental management
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Free-market environmentalism
The solution is private ownership because of the Tragedy of the Commons
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Deep ecology
The solution is to cultivate environmental consciousness because of the unity of humans, plants, animal, and earth
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Social ecology and eco-femisim
The solution is an egalitarian and cooperative society because of structural violence (social, economic, and political)

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