Intro Flashcards
1
Q
What is politics?
A
“Politics is a collective activity, involving people who accept a common membership or at least acknowledged a shared fate.” (Miller,1991)
2
Q
He once said, “man is by nature a political animal.”
Therefore, politics is what we are for.
A
- Aristotle
3
Q
Politics involves:
A
(NBC)
- Negotiation, bargaining and compromise.
4
Q
What is government?
A
(FEC)
- It refers to the agency through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed and carried out.
5
Q
What is bureaucracy?
A
- Is a complex structure of offices, tasks, rules and principles of organization that are employed by all large scale institutions.
6
Q
What is state?
A
- Is a community of persons more or less numerous, permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a great government of their own to which the great body of inhabitants render obedience, and enjoying freedom from external control.
7
Q
What is sovereignty?
A
- It is the ultimate power, authority and control of a state over persons, property, and territory.
8
Q
What is internal sovereignty?
A
- Refers to law-making power within its territory.
9
Q
What is external sovereignty?
A
- The international recognition of the sovereign;s jurisdiction over territory.
10
Q
What is nation?
A
- Nation is an ethnic concept
11
Q
Distinguish state from nation
A
- State is a political concept, while nation is an ethnic concept.
12
Q
What is nationalism?
A
- The doctrine that nations are entitled to self-determination.
13
Q
A state with its own nation.
A
- Nation-state
14
Q
A state with more than one nation.
A
- Multinational state
15
Q
What is stateless nation?
A
- A nation which lacks its own state and whose people are spread across several countries.
