GENERAL KEYWORDS Flashcards
DEMOCRACY
‘RULE OF THE PEOPLE’
Idea that people can vote on policy issues and vote their elected representatives into parliament
AUTOCRACY
‘ABSOLUTE POWER’
One ruler has absolute control and decision making power
PLUTOCRACY
‘RULED BY THE RICH’
A society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.
OLIGARCHY
‘RULED BY A FEW’
A government in which many or a small group of people are in power
THEOCRACY
‘RULED BY GOD’
Society that is run by a religious group, i.e IRAN, USA
OVERTON WINDOW
The policies and political positions considered acceptable by the mainstream population at a given moment.
Length of political opinion you’re allowed to have
LEFT WING
Political ideologies that support and seek to achieve SOCIAL EQUALITY and opposes social hierarchy. POLICIES FOR WHOLE COUNTRY I.e NHS
RIGHT WING
Political ideologies that advocates FREE ENTERPRISE and PRIVATE OWNERSHIP, more economy / business based views, and typically favours SOCIALLY TRADITIONAL values
NEOLIBERAL
MARKET ORIENTATED, minimising government influence on economy, it’s taking politics out of business.
REPUBLICANISM
ANTIMONARCHY
TWO CONFLICT THEORIES
MARXISM
FEMINISM
MARXISTS VIEW SOCIETY AS..
DIVIDED BY:
BOURGEOISIE (ruling / power)
PROLETARIAT (workers)
PETIET BOURGEOISIE (merchant class - shopkeepers)
LANDED GENTRY (rentier class, income comes from rents)
WHEN WAS LABOUR PARTY FOUNDED
1900 SEPTEMBER 27TH
POLICIES
Ideas and practices set up by the government
BOURGEOISIE
People who make money through the working class, the rich, leaders / ruling
PROLETARIANT
The working class, bulk of the population
MARKET
Place where commodities are traded
MONOPLY
Market structure where a single person has complete control
MONOTHEISTIC
ONLY ONE GOD
