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Nature and purpose of power Flashcards

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What is politics about?

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The organisation and management of conflicts or tensions between people and groups and what should happen.

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What are the different forms of conflicts?

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Direct alternatives and differences of priorities

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What does politics analyse?

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The policy and law making processes of the government

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What is power?

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Power is the ability to control influence or affect the behaviour of a person or group and make them behave in the ways that you want choose

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What is the Executive?

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The branch of government consisting of the PM or President along with their departments that formulate and administer laws

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What does political and legal power refer to?

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The use of governments and laws to regulate society

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How is political and legal power enforced?

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By the coercive power of the state through its executive control and ability to enforce laws through law enforcement

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What does economic power refer to?

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The use of financial inducements to control a person of group

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What are forms of economic power at a personal level?

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Bribery, extortion

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What are forms of economic power at a high level?

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Sanctions, taxation

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What does Military power refer to?

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The use of coercive force to control a situation in or outside of a nation-state

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What is actual military power?

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The military power which has been used

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What is potential military power?

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The military power which can been used

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What does social or cultural power refer to?

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The way certain values impact the ways people live or view themselves

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What is an example of social or cultural power?

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During the cold war the USA and Britain transferred their cultural values to other countries

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What is authority?

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The legitimate use of power

17
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What is a magistrate?

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A civil officer who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offences and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.

18
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What is a subject of power?

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Someone whom the “authority” has power over

19
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What happens when power is exercised legitimately?

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It becomes authority

20
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What are rights?

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Rights are social or ethical principles that what outline what people are allowed to do, or are privileges owed by society

21
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What is the contract theory

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The implied contract between a citizen and government that the government is entitled to act and restrict the freedom of individuals based on the fact that they were voted in democratically

22
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The term “sovereign” traditionally referred to?

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A king or a queen

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What is sovereignty?

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The exclusive right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region, group of people or oneself

24
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What is a citizen?

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A citizen is a member of a particular political or social community.

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What is a state?

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The governance of a specific geographic area and the individuals within it

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What are nations?

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A group of people who feel an identity in common based on ethnicity, language, culture, region and history

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What is a nation state?

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A nation state is a group of people who share similar identity, language culture or history and live inside a specific territory governed by a state

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What are 5 examples of nation states?

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Japan, China, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Saudi Arabia

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What percentage of a population has to belong to the ethnicity if it is a nation state?

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95%

30
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What is influence?

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A subtle, less overt use of power

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What is autocracy?

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Where power is vested in one individual

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What are some examples of non formal use of power?

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Family relations, Sport, Education, Religious organisations, Workplaces

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What is apartheid?

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A system of institutionalised racial segregation

34
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What is a plebiscite?

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Where eligible voters cast their vote on an important public matter, and they express the opinion or will of the people, but do not change the constitution

35
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What is a royal commission?

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An inquiry into a matter of public importance which is appointed by the governor general on advice on advice from the prime minister.

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What was the link between religion and politics in the middle ages?

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They were inseparable as the church ran many european towns

37
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Two companies own what % of the newspapers?

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90%

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