IDEOLOGIES
This ideology advocates for collective ownership of property and the abolition of class distinctions, with Karl Marx as one of its primary theorists.
What is Communism?
“All politics is a struggle for power.”
Who is Hans Joachim Morgenthau?
In the 1700s, Scottish philosopher David Hume argued that governments exist to provide resources like streetlights and national defense that benefit everyone and cannot be withheld from anyone.
What is Public Goods?
Political scientists often use games to interpret and predict human behavior. A game is a set of rules, a set of choices, and a set of decisions.
This is used to study human decision-making, tests fairness and cooperation by giving one player the power to propose a monetary split and the other the power to accept or reject it.
What is The Ultimatum Game?
The Event Organizer's date of birth (MM/DD/YYYY).
What/When is June 12th, 2007?
This ideology emphasizes order and hierarchy, and Edmund Burke criticized the French Revolution as an example of its violation.
What is Conservatism?
This thinker wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, advocating education and civil rights for women.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
Bargaining in politics often revolves around whether existing policies, practices, or regulations should be altered or preserved; the preservation of what is called what?
What is Status Quo?
According to Thomas Hobbes, humans are vulnerable in the absence of political authority, so individuals collectively authorize this enormously powerful entity to enforce the laws of nature and ensure social peace through the threat of punishment
What is Leviathan?
Humans behave in two main ways.
What is Strategic and Expressive?
This ideology, associated with Vladimir Lenin, emphasizes the need for a vanguard party to guide the proletariat toward revolution.
What is Leninism?
Author of Silent Spring, whose work inspired the modern environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This practice involves the deliberate redrawing of electoral district boundaries, often using techniques called “cracking” and “packing,” to minimize the influence of opposition voters and maximize the electoral advantage of the ruling party.
What is Gerrymandering?
These codified laws in the United States historically restricted Black citizens’ access to voting through mechanisms like literacy tests, poll taxes, and residency requirements.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This term describes the stage following the rise of class consciousness where workers collectively take control of the government to dismantle capitalist social relations.
What is Dictatorship of the Proletariat?
Mao Zedong adapted Marxist-Leninist theory to focus on this group as the revolutionary agent in a largely agrarian society.
What are peasants?
The Godfather of Neo-Conservatism
Who is Irving Kristol?
Jaspers used this term to describe a relationship between man and the state that is intended not to destroy either party but to stimulate both, similar to the ideal dialogue between political science and the New Society.
What is Loving Struggle?
When someone gets the benefit/good/service without incurring a cost for it.
What is Free Riding Problem?
The three contractualists along with their philosophies/sayings.
Who are Thomas Hobbes “ state of nature ” was terrible; “ war of each against all " // John Lock “life, liberty, and property ” // Jean-Jacques Rousseau "man is born free but everywhere is in chains"
This branch of nationalism prioritizes shared ancestry, language, and culture over political or civic values, often contrasted with civic nationalism.
What is Ethnic Nationalism?
He argued that political freedom is meaningless without social and economic freedom, advocating that each person should have only what they need, no more, in resource allocation.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
The strategy of blending classical liberalism’s economic principles with socially conservative values to maintain a broad center-right coalition is known as what?
It is the core of the center right
What is Political Fusionism?
The idea that one should define oneself primarily as a citizen of the world and not of any particular nation.
What is Cosmopolitanism?
Answer 3 of the 5
"Treat others as they themselves would want to be treated" | "All other things being equal" | "perfectly predictable" | "voters face too many elections and too many electoral decisions " | "duty of the present generation to protect resources for the future generation"
What are The Golden Rule, Ceteris Paribus, Deterministic, Voter Fatigue, & Intergenerational Responsibility