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What is politics?

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Who gets what goods, where, when, how, and why

Exercise of power, distribution of goods

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What is a political act?

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Example: distribution of water

Everyone needs, society must decide who gets and who decides

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What is soverignty?

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Absolute power, monarch believes they have power because of natural right

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What is legislative power?

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Making laws (creating rules)

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What is executive power?

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Executing the laws

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What is judicial power?

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Protection of the laws

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What is state?

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Highest authority in a given society within a territory
They are the people who can choose when to use force (power)

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What are the two factors of state?

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Level of state intervention into the economy
Level of accountability with its citizens

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What are the qualities of a nightwatchman state?

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Minimal state intervention in the economy
State is only responsible for security of the people
Ruled by market

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What are the qualities of a developmental state?

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State intervention in everything
Partners with private sector
restriction of liberties

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What is a liberal democracy?

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promote free elections
universal suffrage,
personal liberties, individual rights, human rights (more accountable to its citizens)

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What is an illiberal democracy?

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elections with little protections about rights and liberties,
They will claim its fair, but it isn’t

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What is an authoritarian state?

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Unfair elections
no accountability of citizens concentration of political power in fewer bodies
leaders not accountable (they may claim)

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What is a totalitarian state?

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Complete control by state
No respect for individual freedom

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What are state theories?

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How a state believes political power should function

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What is pluralism?

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focus of the study of multiple groups in society
fragmented power
state moves around different interest groups

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What is elitism?

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Societies are led by unified self conscious elite

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What is socialism?

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Society is ruled by the elite that owns the means of production

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What is the new right?

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Privatization and minimal state intervention
arbiter of economic power
market decides

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What is power?

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Dominance, force, coercion, consent

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What is authority?

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Right to exert power

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What is legtimacy?

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The reasons one has authority, the idea why one has the right

22
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What is the tragedy of the commons?

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Optimizing for oneself over the good of the population

23
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What are the classifications of state power?

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Traditional authority
Legal-rational
Charismatic

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What is traditional authority classification of state power?

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Belief of natural right, nobility

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What is charismatic classification of state power?

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Comes from personality of leaders, not authority of constitution
Sometimes a challenge of previous authority

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What is legal rational classification of state power?

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Right to exert power based on previously constituted legal rules

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What is democracy?

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Political power distributed and rests in the hands of the people

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What is are examples of contemporary democracy?

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Deliberative: citizens have right to vote, spaces for reflection and debate about political choices

Cosmopolitan: relates to globalization, citizenship is not just linked to states but international institutions have to be accountable to citizens

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What is freedom?

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Absence of externally imposed coercion (physical, structure, legal, etc)

30
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What is the difference between negative and positive freedom?

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Negative: freedom from

Positive: freedom to

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What is Justice?

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How we distribute and how we punish that didn’t meet society’s rules

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What are qualities of liberalism?

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Defend negative liberties
Free markets
Private property
Trickle down economics
Individual over state
Constitutions
Rule of Law
Power seperation

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What is classic liberalism?

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State has no say, should not be involved in economy
Market should decide all
—> Market is ruled by invisible hand (supply and demand)

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What is Keynesianism

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Classic liberalism, but state should interfere in times of crisis of the economy

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What is neoliberalism

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deregulation, privatization, liberalism invisible hand, caused 1% of population to be extreme billionaires with lots of more of the population less off, modern classical liberalism except it is in a global context

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What are tickle down economics?

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Putting money into the hands of the rich and eventually it will make it’s way down to the poor

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What is socialism?

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Focuses on real equality (in opportunities and freedoms)
Inequality shouldn’t exist
Community over individual
Working class

38
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What is conservatism?

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Law and order
Respect for authority
Resistant to progressive ideas

39
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What is fascism?

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Extreme form of nationalism
State (leader ) over individual and community
Racial and gender discrimination
“Cleansing”
Extreme targeting to groups

40
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What is anarchism?

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Total rejection of the state
Has not been implemented in real life
Collective decision making

41
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What is Post modernism?

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Criticizes modernism
Pluralism of people
Social categories (race, gender) are social constructions not scientific indicators
The pretension of knowing through science is limiting because it is exclusionary of other beliefs

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What is enviromentalism?

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Belief that humans should live in harmony with nature (they should not be destroying the environment)
Reconciliation

43
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What is multiculturalism?

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Multiplicity of cultures, identities, religion, and beliefs
Acknowledgment and visibility of this multiplicity
→ example: Canada and the US

44
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What is religious fundamnetalism?

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Contrary to church and state separations (goes against that belief of liberal democracies)
State power and religious power are combined
Religion isn’t necessarily ideological but politics makes it that way

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What is 1st wave feminism?

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19th century, women challenged for same work and political rights, achieved rights for white Women (global north)

46
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What is 2nd wave feminism

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1960s, emergence of movements for reproductive rights not just political and work rights, predominantly white (global north), 1980s women in global south began movements for rights

47
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What is 3rd wave feminsim?

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intersectionality (feminist interpretation that you can not ignore patriarchy in relation to other systems of oppression), women all around the world

48
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What are the 3 theories of just distribution

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Justice as equality
Need based
Merit based

49
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What is Colonalism?

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Subjugation by physical and psychological force of one culture by another

50
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What are the two forms of Colonalism

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Colonialism by settlement: systematic elimination of indigenous peoples (genocide)

Colonialism of rule: not direct elimination of population, but they infiltrate administration of society and start to impose their rule or inequalities that facilitate exploitation of society, exploit resources from the inside

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What is Rule of Law?

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Everyone in society is expected to obey law and everyone is equal to it

52
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What is a constitution?

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Rules and common understandings that regulate relations among institutions, and relations between institutions and people

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