Politics: In General
The struggle in any group for power that will give a person or people the ability to make decisions for the larger group
What is politics?
The study governments, public policies and political processes, systems and political behavior
What is Political Science?
A group that desires self-government
What is a nation?
Ideas about the necessary scope and pace of political change
What are political attitudes?
The definition of a state, per Max Weber
The ability to influence or impose one’s will on others.
What is power?
The systematic study and comparison of the world’s political systems. It seeks to explain differences between as well as similarities among countries
What is Comparative Politics?
Pride in one's people and a belief that they have a unique political destiny
What are nationalism?
An organized set of related ideas about politics, all of which are related to one another and that modify and support each other
What are political ideologies?
The ability to carry out actions independently of internal/external challengers
What is sovereignty?
The ability of states to get things done; fulfill tasks
What is capacity?
A theory that explains how socio-economic development leads to democratization
What is Modernization Theory?
An individual's relationship to the state, with rights and responsibilities.
What is citizenship?
Favors a limited state role in society and the economy, and places high priority on individual political and economic freedom
What is liberalism?
The fundamental rules and norms of politics
What is a regime?
The system in which significant powers devolved to the local level by constitution, not easily taken away
What is federalism?
A new approach in the study of politics that favored quantitative methods and a focus on individuals
What is the Behavioral Revolution?
What is patriotism?
These political attitudes prefer change and are willing to use violences if necessary
What are radicals and reactionaries?
The two ways in which war impacted state development
What are taxes and nationalism?
Rests on the belief in the “legality of enacted rules and the right of those elevated to authority under such rules to issue commands”
What is legal/rational authority?
Comparative Method whereby you hold the outcome constant and see if every case has one variable in common.
What is the method of agreement (or Mills Different systems design)?
Specific attributes and societal institutions that make one group of people culturally different from others
What is ethnicity?
An ideology that seeks to unite religion with the state
What is fundamentalism?
What is imperialism?