Comp Gov Unit 1 Flashcards
crisis
leads to danger and opportunity
time and time again we will see how political leaders and average citizens alike found or didn’t find opportunity amid danger
regime
a system or planned way or doing things, especially one imposed from above
the institutions and practices that typically order from government or government or, in American terms, from administrations to administration
theory
an idea used to account for a situation or justify a course of action
paradigm
an entire discipline; a typical example or pattern of something; a model
deductively
a hypothesis or guess that cannot be proven
best you can do is FALSIFY the theory by finding at least one example where it isn’t true
state
a political division of body of people that occupies a territory defined by frontiers
how scarce resources are allocated
arises questions like how to face economic problems and how to fix failed states
includes all the institutions and individuals that exercise power
power
the ability to get people or groups to do WHAT THEY OTHERWISE WOULDN’T DO
forced to do things you don’t want to
drives political life
government
a particular set of institutions and people authorized by formal documents, such as a constitution, to pass laws, issue regulation, control the police, and so on
rarely holds all the power, especially in failed states
oligarchs
shadowy groups of businessmen
governance
the exercise of political authority and the use of institutional resources to manage society’s problems and affairs
industrialized democracies
more resources
potential for more powerful, but also limited with constitution and major pieces of legislation
current and former communist regimes
totalitarianism - states that sought total control over their societies
not economically great, so they were shadowed by democracies with invigorated economies
China - liberal economically but tight political control
less developed countries
the Global South
no strength and many issues
low popular support
newly industrialized countries
cooperative relations between business and labor to break underdevelopment
strong states
wealthier, elite, more effective
system
country as a whole
democracy and capitalism
weren’t easy processes
mostly Europe and North America
political culture
reflects the core values of its people
less focus on leaders
identity
how people define themselves in racial, linguistic, ethnic, or religious terms
political participation
rare in totalitarianistic and authoritarian governments
public policy
what citizens can do
distribution of resources
can be symbolic towards nationalism
imperialism
similar to colonization
taking over and changing lifestyles
Cold War
the consequences, mainly communism, still remain
globalization
rapid shrinking of social, economic, environmental, and political life
people work with and against each other
good, but can also be bad (ie terrorism and 9/11)
