What is Politics (1-2) Flashcards
name of platos book
The republic
What is “polis”
Greek word for city-state
Who should rule, according to Plato
Philosophers/ King
What is Plato’s time period
5th Century BCE
Machiavelli was in what time period
16th Century Florence
Principles that machiavelli believed in
Purpose of politics is to ensure power of prince and maintain power
Analysed how politics really is
Who came up with ‘fortuna’ in regard to politics
Machiavelli
Analogies of Fortuna
the river- cant do anything when river is flooded but can prepare for the flood
Woman- fate is a fickle woman that must be controlled
Who quoted “i think, therefore i am”
Rene Descartes
What did Descartes believe?
indivudal is central to modern thinking and questions existence of everything outside the self and mind
When did the modern age of politics begin
17th Century
Tenets of modern politics (4)
Individal is paramount
Belief in science
Development of the market
Idea of progress and move from traditiont to science/ freedom
When was the Enlightenment
17th century
Which thinkers believe in natural laws governing politics
Hobbes and Locke
Who published the Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes`
When was the Leviathan published
1651
Key takeaways from the leviathan
We need to look at the component parts of the state (individual citizens)
Believed in absolute monarchy but the kings power comes from the states citizens
Who wrote the two treatises of Government
John Locke
When was “two treatises of Government” written
1689
John Locke’s beliefs
Natural rights of life, liberty and property
State must protect these rights of the individuals
When was the Behavioural revolution
from the 1960s-today
When was the American political science association founded
1903
When did the Vatican state emerge
16th-17th Century
What did the treaty of Westphalia inspire
the creation of the Vatican state
What was the Vatican state created in Response to
English civil war 17th Century
Henry the 8th broke from the Church
Tenets of the early modern state
State is sovereign and has supreme law making power
Belief in secular authority
What is secularism
The separation of the church and state (or religion and government)
When was the Treaty of Wesphalia signed
1648
Purpose of the treaty of Wesphalia
End the thirty years and Eighty years wars in the Roman Empire between Catholics and Protestants
6 types of government in Aristotle’s taxonomy of constitutions
Monarchy Aristocracy Polity Tyranny Oligarchy Democracy MAPTOD
What is empiricism
type of political analysis that seeks to identify observable factors in the real world to study what politics is, rather than what it ought to be
What is semantic analysis
Involved understanding the concepts within politics, their meaning, where they came from etc.
What is behavioursalism
Approach to polisci that assumes behaviour can be mesaured in a percise way and that generalisations can be drawn from it
When did behaviouralism emerge
post 1945 period in the US
What is pluralism
The existence of competing groups is natural is all societies
What do pluralists believe the role of the state to be
regulate and mediate between the groups in society- who have their own agenda.
When was elitism developed
late 1950s-early60s
Who aided in the development of Elitism
C. Wright Mills
When did Wright Mills write his book and what is the title of said book
1965- “The Power Elite”
What is the elitism theory
all societies, regardless of their democratic rhetoric, are ruled by a single elite.
What is a night-watchman state
model of the state that was central to classical liberal thought.
