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PoliSci Unit One
| 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 |
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