Introduction and Key Concepts

Question 1

Comparative Politics

Answer 1

The systematic study of government and politics in different countries designed to better understand them by comparing and contrasting

Question 2

Concept

Answer 2

a term, idea or category (democracy)

Question 3

Conception

Answer 3

manner in which something is understood or interpreted (democracies as self government or something else)

Question 4

Government

Answer 4

the institutions and offices through which societies are govt

Question 5

Governance

Answer 5

the process by which decisions, laws and policies are made

Question 6

Politics

Answer 6

A collective activity occurring between people. Involves making decisions on matters affecting two or more people typically for course of action or resolve disagreements.
Political decisions become authoritative law

Question 7

Power

Answer 7

the capacity to bring about intended effects; influence; forceful modes of influence such as threatening

Question 8

state

Answer 8

unit containing a population within a defined territory and enjoying recognition by its residents and other states of its right to rule that territory

Question 9

Authority

Answer 9

right to rule; creates own power as long as people accept that the person in authority has the right to make decisions

Question 10

Legitimacy

Answer 10

state or quality of being legitimate; system based on authority and those subject to its rule recognize its right to make decisions

Question 11

Ideology

Answer 11

a system of connected beliefs, a shared view of the world, a blueprint for how politics and economics and society should be structured
Anarchism
Marxism
Liberalism
Conservatism
Fascism

Question 12

Typology

Answer 12

A system of classification by which
states, institutions, processes, political cultures,
and so on are divided into groups or types with
common sets of attributes