Review #1 Flashcards
State
All the institutions and individuals that exercise power within a given territory.
Characteristics of a state
Land, people, sovereignty, and legitimacy
Nation
Group of people that share a psychological bond such as ethnicity, language, etc
Government
Particular set of institutions and people authorized by formal documents, to pass laws, etc
Regime
Institutions or practices that endure from government to government. (Administration to administration)
Intergovernmental Organization (IGO)
An entity created by treaty that involves 2+ states working together for common interest
Nongovernmental Organization (NGO)
Non-profit, voluntary citizens’ group, which is organized on local, national, or international level.
Democracy
Rule by people. Free, fair, competitive elections. Guarantee individual liberties. Rule of Law, citizens who live in democracies are typically guaranteed rights in some written form like a constitution or set of laws
Direct democracy vs. representative democracy
look this up.
Authoritarian Regimes/ Semi Authoritarian Regimes
Political power in concentrated into the hands of one leader or a group of leaders who are not bound by a written constitution or contract.
Bureaucratic Authoritarianism
Military takes control of the states’ administration capacity
Totalitarian Regime
State exerts total control of the society
Total repression of civil society and ____ are examples of totalitarian regime
Random pages. Police and security apparatus are unchecked, arbitrary arrests, show trails.
What is a theory?
Body of statements that synthesize knowledge of and explain phenomena. Theory leads to specific, testable predictions about an empirical reality. The more observations we have that confirm a theory, the more we can accept it is valid
Democratic Peace Theory
Democracies do not fight other democracies
Median Voter Theorem
To win elections, a candidate must try to appeal to the median voter on the spectrum
Causation
Book
Correlation
Book
Power
Ability to make another country do what you want
Types of power:
Rational persuasion, economic, cultural, technological, & military
Hard Power
Aggressive. U.S. invasions of other nations
Soft Power
Attraction. Pope’s visit to Poland in 1979. EU speaking out on human rights
Hegemony
Political, economic, or military predominance of one state over the others
The international system is pretty much a….
power map