Power Flashcards
(21 cards)
Power over?
Ability to influence/direct other actors
Power to?
Power to realize collective goals
Structure?
Patterns or pressures that constrain human conduct or behaviour
Agency?
Intentional and meaningful action that reshapes structures or processes
Liberalism?
Rational, self interest, responsible to self
What cannot be objective
Knowledge of politics and power
Is?
Realism
Ought?
Idealism
Realists confront?
Deep and essential forces of political reality
Idealists?
Utopian world as end goal, and working towards the goal is the way to solve issues
Is perspective?
Objective view
Ought perspective?
Idealistic view
There is always an ___ behind a _____?
Agent, structure
Who proposed that states need to protect and nurture self determination?
John Locke
Corn laws?
Theories of rules in the late 18th to early 19th century that favored domestic grain production.
Cosmopolitanism?
The world should be governed as a global society
When/Who was liberalism for?
Society emerging out of feudalism. traditional hierarchy new market economy
French and American revolutions against absolute or divine right of sovereigns
Conservatism?
Tradition of toryism connected to old aristocratic and landed elite
Against change
Communitarianism?
a theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
Labour theory of value?
Surplus only produced through labour so capitalist profit is expropriation
Expropriation?
Authority taking something away