Final Unit

Question 1

What is secularization?

Answer 1

It has to do with society and the people. The amount of people within a state that have religious beliefs compared to scientific beliefs.

Question 2

What is secularism?

Answer 2

It is an institutional idea that church and state are two separate institutions.

Question 3

What are the 3 B’s of religion?

Answer 3

1. Belief
2. Behavior
3. Belonging

Question 4

What do the 3 B’s represent?

Answer 4

• Belief: theological and scriptural ideas concerning the origins of life and the universe
• Behavior: Acting certain ways through rites, rituals, and rules of modesty
• Belonging: individual and collective sense of community beyond ethnic, national, or political differences.

Question 5

What are the principles democracies must have?

Answer 5

• Twin Toleration: Religious organizations/ people must tolerate the state in the sense that public policy has nothing to do with religion.
  State also must tolerate religious organizations/people and the clergy meaning that there will be free religion for all people.
• Principled Distance: No one is forced in the domain of religion. The state cannot force you to become part of a religion.
  You have the right to believe or not to believe.

Question 6

What is political culture?

Answer 6

Identifiable cultural dispositions and patterns of orientation towards political issues.

Question 7

What is social capital?

Answer 7

collective value of all social networks and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other.

Question 8

What is human capital?

Answer 8

Educated skill labor

Question 9

What are indicators of social capital?

Answer 9

The amount of interpersonal trust and reciprocity present in a society. This is needed for the development of rule of law and democratic institutions.

Question 10

What is totalitarianism?

Answer 10

Rule by centralized state, whose regime has a well-defined ideology and uses the power to transform the state and society to meet the ideological vision.

Question 11

What are the characteristics of totalitarian states?

Answer 11

• one party rule
• corporatism
• clientelism
• personality cult built around a single leader
• coercion and surveillance

Question 12

What are rentier states?

Answer 12

They are states that depend on oil, gold, diamonds, etc for wealth

Question 13

What are other types of non-democratic rule?

Answer 13

• personal and monarchical rule
• military rule
• theocracy

Question 14

what is the most common form of non-democratic regime?

Answer 14

Illiberal democracy