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A classification of people based on visible physical traits, such as skin color. Not self-attributed.
Race
Divisions among people in a society causing conflicts over control of government and policymaking.
Cleavages
A person's perspective on how much and how fast political change should occur.
Political attitude
How do centrifugal forces affect the people of a state?
A quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something.
Attribute
A sense of belonging to a social group with a common cultural tradition.
Ethnicity
A unifying force; brings people of the state together to enhance the stability and legitimacy of the state.
Centripetal force
Status given to individuals by the state; requires specific benefits or privileges given by the state.
Citizenship
A type of cleavage that occurs when two cleavages do not align with each other, in a way that reinforces the divide between the two sides.
Cross-cutting Cleavage
A sense of pride in the state.
Patriotism
A sense of pride in national identity that carries political implications. (requires a belief in a shared political goal)
Nationalism
Coinciding Cleavage
Fascism
This group prefers rapid, dramatic, revolutionary change to the current political system. They believe new regimes should replace existing institutions.
Radicals
Beliefs about what the fundamental goals of politics and public policy should be.
The norms, values, and people's expectations about how political power should be used/competed for.
Political Culture
This group prefers progressive changes to a political system, but want to do so thorough evolutionary reforms rather than sudden revolutions. They enact changes using the existing system rather than creating a new one.
Liberals
A political ideology that seeks to balance the values of liberty and equality by allowing some state interference into market economic principles.
Social Democracy
Nigeria has had difficulty building a unified national identity. Much of this difficulty can be attributed to what kind of cleavage?
Coinciding
A political ideology asserting that liberty and equality is only achievable through economic equality via state ownership of private property.
Communism
Political scientists debate the "coming together" trend of changing global political culture. This idea of coming together is identifiable in three main areas. Name these.
Globalization, Modernization, and Democratization
A political ideology that prioritizes liberty and equal protection of all people under the law as the central goals of politics.
Liberalism
The rise of Islamic terrorism can be seen as evidence of resistance to which trend of changing global political culture?
The idea of "coming together"
The idea of society retreating back to religious/ethnic groups as the source of constancy is referred to as what?
A political ideology that believes liberty and equality are best achieved by abolishing the state.
Anarchism