Chapter 9 pt1

Question 1

what is political crime

Answer 1

rule breaking by people with political goas and/or people in possession of political power

Question 2

what is conformity

Answer 2

following norms (opposite of deviance)

Question 3

what is the largest scale (most extreme) form of political conflict

Answer 3

war

Question 4

what are the five different ways of conducting political conflict

Answer 4

Discussion, Debate, Protest, Rebellion, and War

Question 5

what are two smaller versions of war

Answer 5

terrorism and civil wars

Question 6

what are internal political crimes

Answer 6

political crimes were the people in political power withheld informations about an issue/conflict from society

Question 7

what is corruption

Answer 7

it is the simplest form of political crime and includes
Bribery
Patronage
and Fraud

Question 8

What is Bribery

Answer 8

the payment of money or favours for special consideration

Question 9

what is patronage

Answer 9

giving special consideration to people on the basis of friendship

Question 10

what is fraud

Answer 10

use of deception or false information for the purpose of self-enrichment

Question 11

what are modern societies founded on

Answer 11

scientific rationality, the rule of law, and democratic participation

Question 12

what is particularism

Answer 12

a theory that each political group has a right to promote its own interests without regarding the interests of other groups

Question 13

what three facts account for the University of Particularism in modern politics

Answer 13

People know who they are favouring and why

People know that working for a particular party will result in rewards
Political patronage works consistently (rewarding)

Question 14

what is the Transparency Internationals Rankings

Answer 14

they give countries scores based on political corruption

Puts global corruption into an international perspective

Question 15

how does the TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL’s Rankings work

Answer 15

0 score = most corrupt

100= least corrupt

Question 16

which countries were in the top ten, and where is Canada now??

Answer 16

Canada, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand, and Singapore

Canada is now top 11

Question 17

which type of countries experience the least political corruption (6 points)

Answer 17

1.High levels of economic development.
2.high economic freedom
long
3.exposure to democracy
4.unitary structure
5.protestant traditions
6. and a British legal structure

Question 18

what is treason

Answer 18

a label given by the state to those acts that oppose its goals of the government
or seeking to overthrow the government
ex.if a Russian says they are against Putin, they are committing treason

Question 19

Why do people commit treason

Answer 19

they want to right a wrong by standing up to the government when they see something is wrong politcaly

Question 20

why can criminalizing opposition to the state be goof

Answer 20

because it maintains social and political stability

Question 21

what are riots

Answer 21

form of political protest that indicates dissatisfaction with the government

Question 22

what are characteristics of riots

Answer 22

emotional
violent
unplanned and unpredictable outcomes
chaotic

Question 23

what are riots usually set off by

Answer 23

an incident involving the police in a minority neighbourhood

Question 24

what determines whether a riot will follow a precipitating (cause to happen suddenly) incident

Answer 24

actions of the local government and local police

Question 25

how does mass media play a role in in riots

Answer 25

by spreading rationalizations (justifying behaviour) and the symbols of identification that rioters use

Question 26

what are three things that hold people of a riot together

Answer 26

strong social ties
shared motives
shared end goals

Question 27

what is the goal of torture

Answer 27

to inflict severe pain, which is the goal in itself (to punish) or extract information

Question 28

what are the Geneva conventions

Answer 28

contains 4 traits that ban torture and other things in war, yet many countries still use torture
ex.prison in cuba

Question 29

which popular intelligence agency uses torture

Answer 29

the CIA

Question 30

in the long term, why’s torture bad

Answer 30

it effects the rule of law and civil liberties in a country that claims to have them

Question 31

what is a common definition for war

Answer 31

an armed conflict between two countries or groups within a country

Question 32

how has “war” changed throughout the years

Answer 32

before wars were mostly fought on a local scale (between neighbouring groups)
but advances in military technology means wars can be fought thousands of miles apart

Question 33

what are two major causes for war

Answer 33

fighting over natural resources (ex.oil) and/or differences in ideological beliefs

Question 34

what to political protests reflect

Answer 34

a bad fit between cultural goals and the means to achieve them

Question 35

what is a revolution

Answer 35

a successful rebellion. The success of overthrowing an elite and changing the social and authority structure of the state

Question 36

what do revolutions replace

Answer 36

one form of despotism with another

Question 37

According to SKOCPOL which countries were “fully established imperial states”

Answer 37

Pre-revolutionary France, russia, and china

Question 38

What did Barrington Moore say about revolutions

Answer 38

that the outcome depends largely on which social classes attack the ruler

Question 39

what is the result of a revolution from peasants

Answer 39

a communist regime (they want resources they don’t have0

Question 40

what is the result of independent farmers or craftsmen in a revolution (middle class people)

Answer 40

a parliamentary democracy *they want equal say/rights, independence, and their voices heard

Question 41

what is the result of a military/aristrocracy revolution

Answer 41

Fascism, usually take over because they have a charismatic leader who wants control and to make a change