Political Concepts
The study of human society and of the structured interactions among people within society.
Social Science
The scientific study of power.
Political science
A system where interactions between organizations lead to the enforcement of collective decisions within society.
What is a political system?
The right to rule, based on the acceptance of a person or institution's authority to make decisions.
What is authority?
Systematic study and comparison of domestic political systems
What is comparative politics?
A political system that organizes human activity through voluntary cooperation and the elimination of the state.
What is anarchism?
One person ruled on the basis of fixed and established laws
What is a monarchy?
A system of connected beliefs that provides a shared view of how politics, economics, and society should be structured.
What is ideology?
The country with 2nd largest population in the world and 2nd largest political party
What is China?
The process by which public decisions are made
What is politics?
An ideology focused on traditional institutions, free market, and decentralized government.
What is Conservatism?
The supreme authority within the state.
What is sovereign power?
He predicted the eventual collapse of capitalism and democracy and the rise of the Proletariat. (Marxism)
Who was Karl Marx?
The capacity to achieve goals, especially through influencing others or getting them to do what they otherwise would not do.
What is coercive power?
A typology that divided the world into First, Second, and Third Worlds based on ideological lines during the Cold War.
What is the Three Worlds system?
The political science term that refers to an idea, term, or category used to understand political phenomena.
What is a concept?
(______) focuses on decision-making processes, while (______) refers to institutions.
What is governance and government?
A type of governance involves the decision-making processes that affect a country's economic activities
What is economic governance?
In Aristotle's classification, a system where many people rule for the common good.
What is a Polity/Democracy?
In the Three Worlds system, this group of states included communist nations like the Soviet Union and its allies, characterized by their opposition to Western democratic alliances during the Cold War.
What is the Second World?
The country with the largest population and having a unique form of government in which it is a parliamentary democratic republic
What is India?