Multiple Choice Flashcards
Theocratic state
form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
Ex. Iran,
Nationalism
Desire by a large group of people to form a separate and independent nation of their own
belief in the sovereign political destiny of a people
Coup d’etat
unconstitutional, forced change in a nation’s government
Unitary state
central government enjoying almost complete control over their smaller local government entities.
Ex. China, France, Japan, United Kingdom
Corporatism
the organization of a society into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and exercising control over persons and activities within their jurisdiction
direct democracy
Direct democracy is a form of government in which all laws are created by a general vote of society
all members of the polity meet to discuss policy and make decisions
Most european countries have government characterized by
parliamentary supremacy
Competitive multi-party electoral systems are conductive to the formation of
coalition government - several political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that coalition. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament
Majoritarianism
a traditional political philosophy which asserts that the majority of the population is entitled to a certain degree of primacy in a society and has the right to make decisions.
Ex. Great Britain
Founder of the Fifth Republic in France
Charles de Gualle
single district system
based on the principle of having only one member selected from each electoral district
tend to promote two party systems
third parties play a minor role
economic integration
An economic arrangement between different regions marked by the reduction or elimination of trade barriers and the coordination of monetary and fiscal policies. The aim of economic integration is to reduce costs for both consumers and producers, as well as to increase trade between the countries taking part in the agreement.
Examples- NAFTA, European Union, Mercosur
French President (1981-1995) who represented the first case of alternation of power between center-right and center-left since the Fifth republic was created in 1958 was
Francois Mitterand
Dictatorships and Double Standards theory
by demanding rapid liberalization in traditionally autocratic countries, the Carter administration had delivered those countries to anti-American opposition groups that proved more repressive than the governments they overthrew.
Kirkpatrick concluded that while the United States should encourage liberalization and democracy in autocratic countries, it should not do so when the government is facing violent overthrow, and should expect gradual change rather than immediate transformation.
Former republics of the Soviet Union
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
social democrats
a political movement that uses principles of democracy to change a capitalist country to a socialist one
the League of nations was the precursor of
United Nations
Economic reforms have characterized the recent politics of
india and china
US Five formally declared wars
war of 1812 mexican-american war spanish-american war WWI WWII
Currency Depreciation
A decrease in the level of a currency in a floating exchange rate system due to market forces. Currency depreciation can occur due to any number of reasons – economic fundamentals, interest rate differentials, political instability, risk aversion among investors and inflation
Soviet economic reforms were advanced by
Putin
cause of the war for Bosnia
break-up of the Yugoslav federation
social contract theorists
Hobbes Locke Rousseau
According to the social contract theorists, society
requires leaving the state of nature
In Hobbes’ Leviathan, what rights does each individual give up to the sovereign
all rights
Thrasymachus and Callicles
examples of insufficient virtu
denounce the virtue of justice in Gorgias and Republic
What distinguishes good governments from bad governments for Aristotle
common good
In the Republic, Plato’s definition of justice in the individual is
the part of the soul being in harmony
in a just individual, the entire soul aims at fulfilling the desires of the rational part, much as in the just society the entire community aims at fulfilling whatever the rulers will.
Aquinas states that civil law
should prohibit every vice
who wrote City of God
augustine
soulcraft refers to whose conception of politics?
Socrates // Plato
According to St. Augustine, what type of love do citizens of the earthly city have in their hearts? Heavenly?
earthly city - love of self
heavenly city - love of God
Legislator - Rousseau Social Contract
legislator will have to help the people pursue the common good.
He must have the intelligence and persuasive abilities required to effect moral change in the state so that citizens will of others before themselves.
people need legislator’s guidance.
gives lawmaking a sense of time and place, and prevents private interests from the distorting the articulation of the general will. without the help of the legislator, it would be very difficult to preserve the state.
In the Social Contract, Rousseau argued for the importance of
inalienable rights
Machiavelli
wrote the prince
was an out of power former official trying to gain support in the new regime
believed power politics was central to foreign relations
natural law
doctrine that society should be governed by certain ethical principles that are part of nature and can be understood by reason
Immanuel Kant argued that
a community of democracies would bring peace
John Locke - a government’s obligation to the individual was to protect their right to
life liberty and property
John Stuart Mill wrote
on liberty
“Forced to be free” refers to which author’s basic premise about political right
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
the assertion that human life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short appears in
Hobbes Leviathan
Libertarians argue for
minimal government and a free government
Democratic peace holds that
democracies don’t go to war with other democracies
according to edmund burke
tradition at its best is a guide toward good society
in platos gorgias, what does socrates describe as a knack
medicine
