Intro

Question 1

What is politics?

Answer 1

“Politics is a collective activity, involving people who accept a common membership or at least acknowledged a shared fate.” (Miller,1991)

Question 2

He once said, “man is by nature a political animal.”

Therefore, politics is what we are for.

Answer 2

• Aristotle

Question 3

Politics involves:

Answer 3

(NBC)

- Negotiation, bargaining and compromise.

Question 4

What is government?

Answer 4

(FEC)

- It refers to the agency through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed and carried out.

Question 5

What is bureaucracy?

Answer 5

• Is a complex structure of offices, tasks, rules and principles of organization that are employed by all large scale institutions.

Question 6

What is state?

Answer 6

• 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.

Question 7

What is sovereignty?

Answer 7

• It is the ultimate power, authority and control of a state over persons, property, and territory.

Question 8

What is internal sovereignty?

Answer 8

• Refers to law-making power within its territory.

Question 9

What is external sovereignty?

Answer 9

• The international recognition of the sovereign;s jurisdiction over territory.

Question 10

What is nation?

Answer 10

• Nation is an ethnic concept

Question 11

Distinguish state from nation

Answer 11

• State is a political concept, while nation is an ethnic concept.

Question 12

What is nationalism?

Answer 12

• The doctrine that nations are entitled to self-determination.

Question 13

A state with its own nation.

Answer 13

• Nation-state

Question 14

A state with more than one nation.

Answer 14

• Multinational state

Question 15

What is stateless nation?

Answer 15

• A nation which lacks its own state and whose people are spread across several countries.

Question 16

What is diaspora?

Answer 16

• A nation dispersed BEYOND a home state.

Question 17

What is citizen?

Answer 17

• A citizen is a person accorded the legal rights and duties flowing from membership of a state.

Question 18

It is the currency of politics.

Answer 18

• power

Question 19

What is power?

Answer 19

• the production of intended effects

Question 20

Power to

Answer 20

• the ability to ahieve one’s goals

Question 21

Power over

Answer 21

• the ability to overcome opposition

Question 22

Incentive-shaping

Answer 22

• exerting power through the use of inducements and threats

Question 23

Preference-shaping

Answer 23

• exerting influence through persuasion and control of the climate opinion.