1st Quarter Periodical Test Flashcards
The exercise of power, the science of government, the making of collective decisions, the allocation of scarce resources and the practice of management and leadership.
Politics
The study of who gets what when and how.
Politics (Harold Laswell)
A group decision making to choose the best actions.
Collective decisions
The father of political science
Aristotle
The father of modern political science
Niccolo Machiavelli
The system by which a state or community is controlled.
Government
A way of measuring how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources and a preferred way.
Good governance
The process of decision making in the process by which decisions are implemented.
Governance
What are the characteristics of good governance?
Participation
Rule of law
Transparency
Responsiveness
Consensus oriented
Equity and inclusiveness
Effectiveness and efficiency
Accountable
An opportunity for everyone to voice or opinions through institutions or presentations.
Participation
Legal frameworks should be fair and enforced impartially
Rule of law
A guarantee that any information related to a policy can be accessed by everyone
Transparency
Responding efficiently and effectively to people’s needs
Responsiveness
The decision must be a decision that can be accepted by everyone and does not harm anyone
Consensus oriented
All have opportunities to improve or maintain their well-being
Equity and inclusiveness
Produce results that meat needs while making the best use of resources.
Effectiveness and efficiency
The politician should always be trustworthy.
Accountable
The different concepts of government
The worth of the individual
Equality of all persons
Majority rules with minority rights
Necessity of compromise
Individual freedom
The concept that all people are created equal and deserve an opportunity to pursue their potential
The worth of the individual
The concept that the equality of opportunity and equality before the law
Equality of all persons
The democratic principle that the government follows the preference of the majority of voters but protects the interest of the minority.
Majority rules with minority rights
Acceptance of needing to work together and give or take
Necessity of compromise
The concept of freedom to do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t in french on others’freedom.
Individual freedom
Refers to a set of concepts essential to any series reflection on political life.
Political concepts
The power of the leader to rule in the power to exact obedience to his people.
Authority
The legal and psychological right to govern
Legitimacy
The right of the government to rule any right of government to have leadership and exist
Sovereignty
The kind of authority gain through inheritance or succession
Traditional authority
The field of political science that deals with the methods and techniques of the state
Public administration
The field of political science that focuses on the political views thoughts and doctrines of the politics
Political theory
The exercise of political economic and administrative authority to manage nations affair
Governance
One of the three legs of governments that deals with the countries economic activities and its relationships with other economies
Economic governance
The political belief system created to control or destroy a government
Political ideologies
Political ideologies emphasizes human welfare and support civil rights and also accept socio-political change
Liberalism