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