1 - Politics: Setting The Stage

Question 1

Politics

Answer 1

Process of determine how power and resources are distributed in a society without recourse to violence.

Question 2

What does politics always involve?

Answer 2

Making decisions over a common group of people

Question 3

What is a fundamental issue of politics?

Answer 3

Not everyone will agree with the decisions made

Question 4

How can we navigate the issue in politics?

Answer 4

Exercising power

Question 5

Power

Answer 5

Ability of a person to cause another to do what they want, by whatever means

Question 6

Tools of power

Answer 6

1. Coercion
2. Persuasion
3. Ideological
4. Decision-making
5. Decision-preventing

Question 7

Rules

Answer 7

Directives that specify how resources will be distributed or what procedures govern collective activity.

Question 8

Institution

Answer 8

Organizations that exercise government power

Question 9

Norms

Answer 9

Informal social rules that govern daily life

Question 10

What are norms essential for?

Answer 10

Governing

Question 11

Authority

Answer 11

Someone that has the right to make a decision & those decisions must be followed

Question 12

What does authority exist as?

Answer 12

A degree rather than “all or nothing”

Question 13

What limits authority?

Answer 13

Legitimacy

Question 14

Legitimacy

Answer 14

Belief that an authority should be followed

Question 15

Sources of legitimacy

Answer 15

1. Results
2. Habit
3. Historical/Religious/Ethnic identity
4. Procedures

Question 16

What is legitimacy of results?

Answer 16

Legitimacy comes from the OUTCOMES of rule

Question 17

What is legitimacy of habit?

Answer 17

Legitimacy comes from TRADITION

Question 18

What is legitimacy of procedures

Answer 18

Legitimate outcome ONLY IF the RULES ARE FOLLOWED

Question 19

Government

Answer 19

Group of people with highest authority within a territory

Question 20

Why is government unique in society?

Answer 20

Because ALL its power is derived from authority

Question 21

Sovereignty

Answer 21

Within a territory, the state is the highest authority

Question 22

Issues with sovereignty

Answer 22

Difficult to coordinate and address larger issues that impact multiple states

Question 23

The State

Answer 23

Organized territory with authority over borders, security, economy, and welfare of its citizens.

Question 24

When was the State developed?

Answer 24

In Europe over last 500 years

Question 25

What defines a state?

Answer 25

Presence of borders

Question 26

What does political science largely focus on?

Answer 26

Study of The State

Question 27

Interpretive Political Science

Answer 27

Emphasize historical, anthropological, and sometimes legal methods, and the complex whole that is being studied.

Question 28

Behavioralist political science

Answer 28

Emphasize statistical analysis and abstract theories, seeking out basic, essential regularities across a set of events