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Unit 1 Flashcards

1
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Politics

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Resolution of a conflict

Making of a common decision for a group of people through the use of power

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Conflict

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Caused by scarcity and logical contradiction, resulting in competition or cooperation

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Cooperation

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The result of a conflict where both parties get what they want

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Construction of incentives

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Construction of power where either one option is so bad there is only one choice left or the option is so good that it is the best option

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Law

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Universally enforced norms or set of rules that bind society together

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The Good

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Aristotle: the natural purpose of the state, the highest good is morality

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Fact

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The way the world is thought to be

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Economics

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Transforming the material world into things we need to survive

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Norm

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Standard social rules

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Goal

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What a group/individual wants

When in conflict with other goals, causes conflict

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Model

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Simplified representation of something in the world

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Institution

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Norm creating and enforcing organizations

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Poli

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Greek word for a collection of city states

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Competition

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Result of a conflict where either one or none get what they want

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Perversion

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Aristotle: the bad state is a perversion of the natural good state

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Famine

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Politically induced death

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Authority

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The legal right to use power

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Legitimacy

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Acceptance of authority, should have rule

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Surplus

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Excess of production, supply greater than demand

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Conditioning

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BF Skinner: the use of rewards and punishments to train and influence instinct

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Technology

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Tools

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Paradigm

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How a state or the people governing it view the world

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DOW

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Division of wealth, who gets what

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Rational

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Individuals make their decisions in order to maximize specific goals

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System Break

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Shift in the ,ode of production of a society

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Government

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Group with the ultimate power within a territory, also seen as the state

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Mop

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Mode of production, such as hunter gatherer

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Zero-Sum Game

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The result of a conflict where one party gets what they want

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QOL

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Quality of life, how well the people are living

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Oligarchy

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Aristotle: a perversion of aristocracy where the few rule, rule based on wealth and ability

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Nation-State

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Where a state take the idea of a nation for the emotional impact of nationalism

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Society

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A group of people working together to survive

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Feudalism

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Political economic system based on a bio determinist class model of power

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Normative

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Political philosophy, value based inquiry of political science

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Empirical

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Scientific, value based inquiry of political science

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Organic theory

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The state is a natural part of human existence

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Tautology

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A statement that is logically true therefore cannot be shown false by an examination of evidence

38
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BF Skinner

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Physiologist who studied operant conditioning

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Positive Sum Game

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Result of a conflict where both parties work together to get what they want

40
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Systems Theory

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Input and output for example mass protests in, government out with public policy

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Justice

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People are treated as they deserve

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DOL

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Division of labor, who does what

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Persuasion

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A type of political power which is goal satisfying but is limited by cost and credibility

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Coercion

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A type of political power that is goal threatening and takes advantage of cost and credibility

45
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Manifest

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Observable use of power, A makes B do something through action

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Implicit

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B senses A wants something done and does it

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Aristotle

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Greek philosopher and scientist who believed in 2 kinds of states and a posteriorI

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Free will

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Model of rationality that man is in control of himself, rational and good (Locke) or rational and bad (Hobbes)

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Structural functionalism

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Sociological theory, why society functions how it does by studying social institutions that make up society

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Henry VII

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The king who created the Church of England and began the forerunner of the English nation state

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Reformation

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The backlash from rising secularism and the shift in industry produced by a system break

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Nationalism

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Passionate identification with a state or nation that makes people noble or ignoble and is convenient for the government to obey and defend the state

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Industry

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Mass production with mechanical energies

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Scarcity

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The cause of a conflict where both parties want something but there is not enough of it

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Logical contradiction

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The cause of a conflict where both parties want different things but in order for one to get what they want the other cant

56
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Polis

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The Greek work for city state in ideal form

57
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Tabula rasa

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A clean slate

58
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Social Darwinism

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Theory that applies Darwin’s theory of natural selection to the human race

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Negative sum game

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The result of a conflict where nobody got what they wanted

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Eugenics

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Bio determinist view of improving the human population by comtrolling breeding to select for genetic superiority

61
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Civic culture study

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Often performed post WWII, shows cultural relationship

62
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Cultural relativism

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A disadvantage of normative poli sci, meaning that a persons behavior or beliefs must be understood relative to their culture

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Behavioralism

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Objective, quantified explanations of political behaviors

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Aristocracy

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Aristotle: “true” form of government which consists of more than 1 ruling but few whose qualifications to rule are based on virtue

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Institutional analysis

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Analyze the parts of government

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Mercantilism

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Belief in the benefits of profitable trading

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Aristotelian bias

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The poor are dumb and the rich are smart

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Gun powder revolution

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The creation of gunpowder = scientific revolution, gunpowder warfare, need for mass armies

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Temporality

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Rational complexity

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A priori

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Study of knowledge prior to experience

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A posteriorI

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Study of knowledge subsequent to experience

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Epistemology

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The study of knowledge

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UN HDI

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Human development index from the UN, measures avg quality of life

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Autarky

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A nation that is economically self sufficient

75
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Legislative

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Function of the state that mKes the laws

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Comparative politics

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The study of political behavior, political institutions, public law, public policy, and state and local policies, in any place besides the US

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Regime

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The general form of government of a state, including its constitution and rules of government, continuing beyond the terms of individual office holders

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Secularism

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Focus on this world/life rather than the next

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Ideological nationalism

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Based on shared ideas

80
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Cultural nationalism

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Based on shared culture

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Ethnic nationalism

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Based on ethnic identity

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Economic nationalism

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Based on economic interdependence

Poli Sci Semester 1 (3 decks)

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