UCSP - Politics II Flashcards
Words often used to describe politics
- Dirty word
- Trouble
- Disruption
- Deceit
Said that “Nothing more than a means of rising in the world.”
Samuel Johnson
Said that “The systematic organization is hatred”
Henry Adams
- What concerns the state.
- Affairs of the polis
- Cradle of democratic government
Politics art of government
Person:
“Politics is not a science but an art”
- Art of government through the making and enforcement of collective decisions.
Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
Person:
“Authoritative allocation of values”
- Authoritative values are therefore widely accepted in society and are considered binding by the mass of citizens.
David Easton
“Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.”
“Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.”
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Emerich E. Dalberg Acton
- Political and non-political coincides
- Public realm and private realm conforms to the division between the state and civil society.
Politics as public affairs
Politics is seen as a particular means of resolving conflict that is by _____. _____ and negotiation rather than through force and naked conflict.
Politics as compromise and consensus
Person:
When social groups and interests possess power they must be conciliated, they cannot be crushed.
Bernard Crick
The broadest and the most radical definition of politics
Politics as power
The ability to achieve a desired outcome through whatever means.
Power
Person:
Political power as merely the organized power of one class for oppressing the other.
Karl Marx
branch of philosophy that is concerned, at the most abstract level, with the concepts and arguments involved in political opinion.
Political Philosophy
Broadly, however, one may characterize as political all those practices and institutions that are concerned with government.
Political
Hammurabi as a representative of God on Earth.
The Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BCE)
In the late 4th century BCE, is a set of Machiavellian precepts on how to survive under an arbitrary power.
Chandragupta Maurya
In the 6th century BCE there was a code of conduct designed to stabilize society.
Confucius
The first elaborate work of European political philosophy is the ______, a masterpiece of insight and feeling, superbly expressed in dialogue form and probably meant for recitation.
Republic of Plato
was a scientist rather than a prophet, and his Politics, written while he was teaching.
Aristotle
focuses on the observation and explanation of political phenomena and involves formulating and testing hypotheses through experimentation.
Empirical Political Theory
focuses on what ought to be and explores the values and ideals of a political system
Normative Political Theory
The study of political science seeks to determine what we ought to do. it is concerned with the judgement of good ,bad, right or wrong.
Normative Approach
After formulating a hypothesis, a study will be designed to test the hypothesis.
Empirical Theory
Person:
Best known as a proponent of limited government. He uses a theory of natural rights to argue that governments have obligations to their citizens, have only limited powers over their citizens, and can ultimately be overthrown by citizens under certain circumstances.
John Locke
Person:
He goes on to say that, even with the perspective of the past, humanity cannot dictate future events because thoughts of the past are limited, compared to the possibilities for the future.
David Hume
Political science uses a ______________, meaning that political scientists approach their study in an objective, rational, and systematic manner.
Scientific Approach
This approach to analysis draws heavily upon the example of economic theory in building up models based upon procedural rules, usually about the rationally self-interested behavior of the individuals involved.
Political-choice theory
is a general idea about something usually expressed in a single word or a phrase.
Concept
are schematic representations of reality or of one’s view of a possible world, constructed to improve one’s understanding about the world and/or to make predictions.
Models
is a proposition , it offers a systematic explanation of a body of empirical data.
Theory
A popular theory in political science to explain the actions of voters as well as politicians.
it assumes that they act in their own best interest carefully weighing the cost and benefits of possible alternatives.
Rational-choice theory
