TEST 1 Flashcards
SOVEREIGNTY
each state has complete authority and is the ultimate source of law within its own borders. All states are equal before the law that each state has right to protect its territory against any aggression or intervention
NORMATIVE POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE
Answers ?’s about what ought to be rather than providing descriptions and explaining what it really is.
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Theories of political behavior, as an aspect of political science, attempt to quantify and explain the influences that define a person’s political views, ideology, and levels of political participation.
COGNITIVE ORIENTATION
An opinion poll, sometimes simply referred to as a poll, is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals
AUTHORITY
Document tradition or person believed to posses the controlling explanation regarding a particular issue.
Intuition
Based on a feeling or sense of understanding
Political Analysis
Attempt to describe the question and explain politics
FOOT Soldiers
Activist who do the basic work of politics link the masses by communicating with citizens to promote an issue.
Political Leaders
Succeed in capturing supreme political power within a government and using it with extraordinary energy and effect
Anomic Interest group
Short lived who share political concerns participate in group actions
Associated Interest Group
Organized to specifically further the political objectives of its members
Political Socialization
Process by through which individuals acquire their beliefs and values about the political world
COGNITIVE ORIENTATIONS
Are an individuals knowledge about the political world what the person believes are political facts.
AFFECTIVE ORIENTATION
Include any feeling or emotions evoked in a person by political phenomena.
Evaluative Orientation
Involves your synthesis of facts and feelings are instances into a judgement about some political phenomenon
Public Opinion Polls
The attitudes of many people are gathered aggregated and summarized they constitute the most widely available data about people’s political orientations
Political Belief System
The configuration of an individuals political orientation
Empirical Theory
Relies upon observation and analysis of real world data as it attempts to apply the methods of science in order to develop descriptive and explanatory knowledge claims about the political world
Socialism
To provide high quality relatively equal conditions of life for everyone with an active state assisting in the achievement of this goal.
Political Resources
Those elements controlled by the group that can influence the decision and actions of political actors.
Conservatism
Attempts to prevent or slow the transition away from a society based on traditional values and the existing social hierarchy
Fascism
A system in which the unity and harmony of government and society are of central importance and forces that might weaken that unity are repressed a top leader is usually viewed as the embodiment of the natural will, and all individuals are expected to obey the leaders will
Liberalism
An emphasis on the primacy of the freedom and rights of the individual relative to any constraints imposed by the state
Islamism
Guided by a rigid and conservative interpretation of islam this political islam encourages active even violent opposition against any who undermine its beliefs about the appropriate way of living both public and private
