American Politics from a Comp. Persp.
The idea of favoring individual freedom of action over collective or state control.
What is individualism?
The government stays out of economics,"hands off"
What is Laissez-Faire economics?
A general set of values about politics.
What is political culture?
The most influential factor in the socialization process
What are parents?
Who are the Contractualists?
Political scientists who specialize in American politics and examine how politics works under American democracy.
Who are Americanists?
Anti-democratic with total control of all aspects of life to promote utopian ideology.
What is totalitarianism?
Dahl argues this is the best form of government that can exist in reality.
What is polyarchy?
What is ideology?
French historian who wrote Democracy in America.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
Political scientists who specialize looking at the way in which different democracies behave in situations.
Who are comparativists?
Developed in the 1920s in Italy by Mussolini. What the state wants or needs is the most important thing.
**irrationality- Fascism began turning into Naziism, led to people being seen as subhuman
What is Fascism?
Term to refer to people from whom groups learn political culture from?
The author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Who is Max Weber?
Give up the freedom to own, and give it to the government to use for the common good.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
The degree to which the United States is different from other advanced industrialized democracies.
What is American Exceptionalism?
Has 1. democratic structures 2. encourages expression in the political process 3. Offers political participatory opportunities, 4. provides democratic freedoms to citizens
(Hint: The United States is one!)
What are advanced industrial democracies?
Used to describe when a majority tramples on the rights of the minority within a territory.
The sense that what you do politically makes a difference.
What is efficacy?
Liberal and social democracies can be...
Who are "welfare states"?
The government is bad at business. The invisible hand in which we let the market rely on the invisible hand (law of supply and demand). Smith believes people are rational.
What is classic liberalism?
Edmund Burke argued that people are emotional and irrational, so institutions are good and necessary. Written in response to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
What is Classic conservatism?
Thomas Hill Green
Who developed Reform liberalism?
Voter turnout has to be intermittent and potential.
What is necessary for democracy?
Governments that frequently provide services (ex: healthcare)
What is a social democracy?