Question | Answer |
Politics | The making of a common decision for a group of people |
Law | Universal norm set by the governemtn |
Norm | Social rule |
Authority | The legal right to use power |
Legitimacy | acceptance of authority |
Technology | Tools |
Systems Break | A change in MoP that transforms society |
QoL | Quality of Life |
Feudalism | Political and economical system based on bio-determinist theory |
Organic Theory | State is a natural part of human existence |
Persuasion | Getting someone to think they want what you want; goal satisfying |
Coercion | Forcing someone to do what you want; goal threatening. |
Construction of Incentives | making one's option seem like the only logical option by making all others look bad; an offer that can't be refused. |
Aristotle | Ancient Greek philosopher who believed in the highest form of government and the Good and the Bad. |
Henry VIII | Catholic ruler who converted to Protestantism |
Industry | use of mechanical energies to mass produce goods. |
Global Corporation | transnational corporation; has no primary market. |
Negative-Sum Game | everyone loses. |
Zero-Sum Game | one wins and one loses. |
Positive-Sum Game | cooperation; everyone wins. |
Behavioralism | empirical approach to politics (scientific) |
Mercantilism | economy based on trade |
Regime | elite who control the government. |
Temporality | understanding of time |
UN HDI | United Nations Human Development Index |
Executive | enforce laws |
Legislative | makes laws |
Judicial | interprets laws |
Conflict | competition between opposing goals |
The Good | the natural purpose of the state |
Goal | Stay alive and improve QoL |
Competition | zero or negative sum game |
Paradigm | the dominant viewpoint of an institution |
Government | group of people who control the state |
Oligarchy | a few people making decisions for the state; a perversion of the natural state. |
TNGI | Transnational Governing Institution |
Tautology | absolute fact |
Justice | fairness |
Free Will | model of human rationality |
Reformation | change in religion in response to rising secularism and Renaissance |
Scarcity | not having enough of something |
Polis | community |
Eugenics | Bio-determinist belief that the genetically superior should rule. |
Post-Nationalism | World government and economics |
Dependency | countries relied on one another once trade began |
Secularism | not religion; dealing with this world and no other. |
A priori | knowledge prior to experience |
A posteriori | knowledge after experience |
Autarky | self-sufficient economics unit that does not require imports or exports |
Cooperation | working together for a common goal |
Fact | something about the world that is widely believed to be true |
Model | simplified representation of something in the world |
Perversion | not natural for the state; bad; looks out for their (the rulers) own good |
Surplus | extra amounts |
DoW | Distribution of Wealth |
MoP | Mode of Production |
Nation-State | a combination of nation and state that utilizes nationalism |
Normative | value based inquiry |
BF Skinner | psychologist that studied operant conditioning |
DoL | Distribution of Labor |
Manifest Power | observable action by one that led to another person doing what they wanted. |
MNC | Multinational Corporation; does business in many countries, but mostly in one nation |
Nationalism | passionate identification with a nation |
Opportunity Cost | What has to be given up in order to satisfy a goal |
Tabula Rasa | blank slate |
Civic Culture Study | Anglo-American culture is superior to fascism; fascism promotes war. |
Aristocracy | a few people ruling for the good of the state |
Luna's Maxim | people making decisions to benefit people like themselves. |
Empirical | sense based inquiry |
Economics | changing material into things needed to survive |
Institution | norm creating and enforcing structure |
Famine | politically induced death |
Conditioning | purposeful change in behavior reinforced by positive or negative results |
Rational | goal-oriented |
Society | a group of people working together for a common goal |
Implicit Power | one does what another wants because A) they sense one wants something done or B) for some reason, they want to do what the other wants done. |
Structural-Funtionalism
(Institutional Analysis) | looking at how the different parts of government work |
National Corporation | a corporation that only works within the country of its origin |
Logical Contradiction | two people want different things, but for one to get what they want, the other loses. |
Social Darwinism | political theory that says that those who are best fit will survive the longest |
Cultural Relativism | individuals can be understood by their culture |
Aristotilean Bias | people are richer because they are smarter |
Gun Powder Revolution | led to creation of National Armies and Patriotism, Scientific Revolution |
Epistemology | the study of knowledge |
Comparative Politics | comparing different types of government |