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Chapter 1 KTR Flashcards

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Legitimate

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Accepted as correct (by the people), consent of the governed

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Social Order

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  • Maximize values/behaviors we think ar important

- Keep the peace

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Government

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System or organization for exercising authority over body of people

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Authority

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Power that citizens view as legitimate

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Institutions

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-Where of the political struggle

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Economics

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-Concerned specifically with Te production and distributional the society’s wealth

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Capitalist economy

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All means used to produce material resources are privately owned, decisions left to individual

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Regulated capitalism

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Maintains captain economy, individual freedom from government, and allows gov’t. to regulate economy and guarantee individual rights

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Procedural Guarantee

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Rules work smoothly and fairly (due process, etc.)

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Socialist economy

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Economic decisions made by politicians, based on judgement of what society needs

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Substantial Guarantees

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What social politicians believe to be fair outcomes

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Social democracy

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Believe most property can be privately owned, believe that values of equality can be promoted by socialism and brought by democracy

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Authoritarian

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Give ultimate power to the state rather than to the people

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Monarchy

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  • Authoritarian
  • Vests ultimate power in one person, higher power has designated that person’s divine representative on earth
  • Of person’s birth, wealth, or knowledge entitled to position
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Theocracy

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-God/deity is sovereign, speaks through voice of earthly appointee

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Fascist Government

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  • Authoritarian

- State is sovereign, run by dictator for greater good of state

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Oligarchy

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-Sovereignty grounded in a party or group

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Totalitarian

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System combining authoritarian government with socialist economy

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Authoritarian capitalism

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-Economic freedoms, stringent social regulation

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Anarchy

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-No government and no laws

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Democracy

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  • Government is the people
  • Try to maximize freedoms for individual
  • Provide procedural guarantees to preserve individual rights
  • Based on popular sovereignty
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Popular Sovereignty

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No power higher than the people

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Elite democracy

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  • Propose that democracy is system of choosing among competing leaders
  • No further input after leader has been chosen
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Pluralist Democracy

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-Emphasizes membership in groups that participate in government decision making on their behalf

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Participatory Democracy

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  • More than consent or majority rule in making governmental decisions is needed
  • Individuals have right to control all circumstances of lives
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Advanced Industrial Democracies

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Combine personal freedoms with free market economy

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Communist Democracy

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Radical democracy would coexist with communally owned property (never existed)

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Social Contract

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  • People have freedom and rights before government exists

- When decide to have government, give up rights in exchange for protection of other rights

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Republic

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  • Employs representation and can work in large state

- Choose representatives

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Economic Liberals

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  • Allow government to make substantive decisions about economy
  • Hands-odd individual lives
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Economic Conservatives

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-No government intervention in private or economy (a little is okay)

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Libertarians

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Social Liberals

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  • Government action realize substantive vision of what society should be like
  • Forward looking, adaptive
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Communitarians

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  • Commit to community-based vision

- Radical equality of all people, all sacrifice for greater good

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Social Conservatives

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  • Limited government involvement in economy, with less force

- Concerned with moral tone of life (substantive set of laws to create moral order)

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Analysis:

  • Who
  • What
  • How
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  • Who: Are the parties involved? Resources, powers, rights?
  • What: Do they have at stake?
  • How: Do the rules shape the outcome?
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Conservatives

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  • Favor traditional social values, distrust government.

- Place priority on maintenance of social order

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Liberals

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  • Value possibilities of progress or change

- Trust government, look for innovations as answers, focus on expansion of individual eighths and expression

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