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What is Politics (1-2) Flashcards

1
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name of platos book

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The republic

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2
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What is “polis”

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Greek word for city-state

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3
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Who should rule, according to Plato

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Philosophers/ King

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4
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What is Plato’s time period

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5th Century BCE

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5
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Machiavelli was in what time period

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16th Century Florence

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Principles that machiavelli believed in

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Purpose of politics is to ensure power of prince and maintain power

Analysed how politics really is

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7
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Who came up with ‘fortuna’ in regard to politics

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Machiavelli

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8
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Analogies of Fortuna

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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

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9
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Who quoted “i think, therefore i am”

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Rene Descartes

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10
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What did Descartes believe?

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indivudal is central to modern thinking and questions existence of everything outside the self and mind

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11
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When did the modern age of politics begin

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17th Century

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12
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Tenets of modern politics (4)

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Individal is paramount

Belief in science

Development of the market

Idea of progress and move from traditiont to science/ freedom

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13
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When was the Enlightenment

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17th century

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14
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Which thinkers believe in natural laws governing politics

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Hobbes and Locke

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15
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Who published the Leviathan

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Thomas Hobbes`

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When was the Leviathan published

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1651

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17
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Key takeaways from the leviathan

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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

18
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Who wrote the two treatises of Government

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John Locke

19
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When was “two treatises of Government” written

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1689

20
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John Locke’s beliefs

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Natural rights of life, liberty and property

State must protect these rights of the individuals

21
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When was the Behavioural revolution

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from the 1960s-today

22
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When was the American political science association founded

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1903

23
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When did the Vatican state emerge

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16th-17th Century

24
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What did the treaty of Westphalia inspire

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the creation of the Vatican state

25
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What was the Vatican state created in Response to

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English civil war 17th Century

Henry the 8th broke from the Church

26
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Tenets of the early modern state

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State is sovereign and has supreme law making power

Belief in secular authority

27
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What is secularism

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The separation of the church and state (or religion and government)

28
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When was the Treaty of Wesphalia signed

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1648

29
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Purpose of the treaty of Wesphalia

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End the thirty years and Eighty years wars in the Roman Empire between Catholics and Protestants

30
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6 types of government in Aristotle’s taxonomy of constitutions

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Monarchy
Aristocracy
Polity
Tyranny
Oligarchy
Democracy
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31
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What is empiricism

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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

32
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What is semantic analysis

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Involved understanding the concepts within politics, their meaning, where they came from etc.

33
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What is behavioursalism

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Approach to polisci that assumes behaviour can be mesaured in a percise way and that generalisations can be drawn from it

34
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When did behaviouralism emerge

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post 1945 period in the US

35
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What is pluralism

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The existence of competing groups is natural is all societies

36
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What do pluralists believe the role of the state to be

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regulate and mediate between the groups in society- who have their own agenda.

37
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When was elitism developed

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late 1950s-early60s

38
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Who aided in the development of Elitism

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C. Wright Mills

39
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When did Wright Mills write his book and what is the title of said book

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1965- “The Power Elite”

40
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What is the elitism theory

A

all societies, regardless of their democratic rhetoric, are ruled by a single elite.

41
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What is a night-watchman state

A

model of the state that was central to classical liberal thought.

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