KEY CONCEPTS lec 3-4 Flashcards
Treaty of Westphalia
1648
-attempt to bring an end to imperial principles and territory conquests
- response to the end of the thirty year war
- Defined sovereignty and territorial integrity
- Separation of religion and state
Social Contract
Jean jaques Rosseau 1762
the voluntary agreement among individuals by which (according to Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau theories) society is invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members.
- an agreement for mutual benefit between an individual or group and the government or community as a whole.
Branches of the State
legislative, executive, judicial, function:
administrative, socialization/education;coercive)
- The apparatus that allows the government to function
Natural Rights
John Locke Introduced them 1689
- Life, Liberty and Property
- Rights that a person has under natural law
- State must protect these rights
Totalitarianism
extreme form of an authoritarian regime, where there are no fair elections and political leaders lack accountability
-very centralized form of gov’t that controls every aspect of private and public civilian life
Pluralism
- Arose in 1960s
- believes that the existience of competing groups is natural in all societies
- Competing for social, economic, and political influence
- Role of gov is to regulate and mediate these groups
Elitisim
1950s/1960s
-all societies, despite democratic rhetoric, are ruled by a SINGLE, UNIFIED elite…
- Wright Mills argues that power in american society is concentrated in the hands of powerful elite that dominates economic, military and governmental spheres
- corporatism can be an example
night-Watchman state
model of the state that is central to classical liberal thought
- Goc ensures internal and external security
- Unregulates market
- Only protects citizens rights
