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Pols 200 MId term
Study Guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 4 Types of executives | Presidential executive, parliamentary executive, semi-presidential executive |
| 4 types of security | National security, state security, regime security, and individual security |
| National Security | protection of groups within and across borders |
| State Security | protection from outside threats |
| Regime security | the leaders ability to protect their hold on power |
| Individual security | goal is to keep individuals safe |
| Adam Smith | Scottish philosopher, "father of modern economics" |
| Alliance | A formal agreement or relationship where people, groups, political parties, or countries join together to work toward a common goal or mutual benefit |
| Anarchy | A society organized without a central government, formal rulers, or top-down legal authority |
| Aristotle 6 forms of government | Monarchy, Dictatorship, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Polity, Democracy |
| Aristotle perverted forms of government | Dictatorship, Oligarchy, Democracy |
| Aristotle good forms of government | Monarchy, Aristocracy, Polity |
| Atomization | The fragmentation of a society into isolated, self-interested individuals, weakening collective groups and mediating organizations |
| Authority | The recognized, legitimate right of a person, group, or institution to exercise power and command obedience |
| Capitalism | A social, political, and economic system where private individuals and businessess own and control the means of production |
| Socialism | A political and economic system featuring public or collective ownership and control of the means of production and natural resources |
| Checks and balances | Different branches of government have powers to limit and block the actions of other branches |
| Collective action | any organized effort by a group of people to achive a shared political goal |
| Conceptual Framework | easier to suspend whenever it is talked about during fictional topics |
| Enlightened self intrest | an ethical an dpolitical philosophy stating that by helping others or serving the common good, idividuals ultimately serve their own self-interest |
| executive branch | The president, vice president, cabinet, and executive department and agencies |
| Feudalism | The decentralized political and social system where public authority is divided and excersized locally by private agreements |
| Group identity | an individuals sense of belonging to a specific social category |
| head of state | The symbol of its national unity, identity, and continuity at home and abroad |
| head of government | The one in charge of the day ti day tasks of the government |
| laissez-faire | A government and economic policy of minimum intervention in the economic affairs of individuals and society |
| Legitimacy | when its rational and makes sense to follow the government |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | "humans are driven by insatiable desire for power and material gain |
| peer policing | the practice of members of a group or community monitoring, regulating, or policing one anothers behavior |
| Political culture | a set of shared views, values, belifs, and attitudes that a population holds regarding its political system and how government should function |
| Political ideologies | a structured set of belifs, values, and ideas that shapes how a person or group thinks society and government should work |
| Political institutions | (small) they provide the foundational framework for how a government operates and how people interact within a political system |
| Political philosophy vs Political ideology | The difference is one is about knowledge and the other is about a call to action |
| Political structures | (big) defines how a governments political power is distributed and how laws are made and how different groups interact within a political system |
| Power | the ability to get simething done |
| preference falsification |
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