UIUC Fall 2005
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| National Interest | Countries generally pursue their own self-interest. Leaders objectives and goals help to determine the national interest and subsequent actions
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| Expansionism | Enlarge territory or influence
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| Status Quo | Preserve the ___ ___ power arrangement (e.g. Containment)
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| Accommodation | Preserve or promote peace, sometimes at the expense of power.
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| Traditional European System: Balance of Power | Equilibrium is maintained by parity (particularly of military power) among participating states.
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| Post WWII: Bi Polarity and a Global System | Emergence of U.S. and U.S.S.R. and increased military capabilities
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| Unipolarity | U.S. as the sole superpower – a.) Full range of power capabilities including military, economic, political b.) global reach c.) Willing to assert leadership
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| Global Economy | International cooperation and competition. Driven by multi-national corporations and information technology
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| Multinational corporations | Businesses with foreign subsidiaries which extend the production and marketing of the firm beyond the boundaries of any one country
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| Functions of Bureaucracy (4) | Provide Services, Regulate: Economic behavior, Social behavior, Licensing, Adjudicating Disputes
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| Structure of Bureaucracy (4) | Departments, Government Corporations, Independent Agencies, Regulatory Agencies
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| Law | Collection of rules laid down by the government binding all members of the state
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| Courts | Institution charged with interpreting the law and adjudicating.
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| Legal Systems | Organized sets of legal principles that form the basis of the law and adjudication in states.
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| “Common law” | Task is to find proper law, which may evolve over time: precedent
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| Continental European Code Law | Law is an instrument of the government rather than something that exists independently.: code
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| Criminal Law | Person disobeyed a law prescribing proper conduct. The state bring the case against the defendant.
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| Civil Law | Relations between people.
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| Constitutional Law: | Disputes about the nature of the political process, and whether laws are consistent with the constitution.
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| Interest Groups | Organized group of citizens, one of whose goals is to ensure that the state follows certain policies
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| Group Activities (6) | Control of Information and Expertise, Electoral Activity, Use of Economic Power, Public Information Campaigns, Violence and Disruption, Litigation
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| How Groups Vary Across States (4) | Degree of Organization, Degree of Direct Involvement in Government and Administration, Pluralism, Neocorporatism
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| Public Administration | The set of people who are not involved directly in the making of major political decisions but who construct and implement the policies that carry out these decisions.
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| Bureaucracy (4) | Meritocracy, Standardized procedures, Hierarchical structure, Shielded from regularly fluctuating political pressures
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| Protected Competence | Lacking profit as a measure of competence. Work may expand to fill the job. Bureaucrats tend to outlast elected officials.
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| Political Party | Group of officials who are linked with a sizable group of citizens into an organization; a chief object of this organization is to ensure that its officials attain or maintain power.
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| Int. Group Activities (6) | Control of Information and Expertise, Electoral Activity, Use of Economic Power, Public Information Campaigns, Violence,Litigation
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