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Concepts and model 1
Concepts and models 2
Ideologies
Political parties 1
Political parties 2
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A representation of something, usually on a smaller scale, as in the case of a doll’s house. It comprises a range of ideas and can be considered an analytical tool.
What is model?
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A general idea about something, usually expressed in a single word or phrase.
What is a concept?
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This ideology can be characterized using the following terms: Individualism, freedom, reason, equality, toleration, consent, constitutionalism.
What is liberalism?
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A type of party that places a heavy emphasis on broadening membership and constructing a wide electoral base (for instance the UK Labour Party).
What is a mass party?
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A type of party that roughly consists of trained and professional party members who are expected to exhibit a high level of political commitment and doctrinal discipline (for instance the Chinese Communist Party)
What is a cadre party?
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This concept can be defined as ‘a more or less coherent set of ideas that provides a basis for organized political action’.
What is an ideology?
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A superior tool for the student that wishes to learn as much as possible.
What is SQ3R?
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This ideology can characterized using the following terms: Tradition, pragmatism, human imperfection, organicism, hierarchy, authority, property.
What is conservatism?
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The parties that are currently in government in Denmark.
What are the Social Democrats and the Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre)?
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The parties that constituted the previous government.
What are Denmark’s Liberal party (Venstre) and the Conservative People’s party?
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‘The authoritative allocation of values for a society’
What is politics?
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A model that explains the position of political parties on given issues based on four different parameters: the interest parameter, the public opinion parameter, the parliamentary parameter and the personal parameter.
What is Molin's model?
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This ideology can characterized using the following terms: Community, fraternity, social equality, need, social class, common ownership.
What is socialism?
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A type of proactive party that wishes to mobilize, educate and inspire the masses, rather than merely respond to their concerns.
What is an integrative party?
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A type of party, which sees its primary function as being securing votes in election and thus attempt to reflect, rather than shape, public opinion. This type of party typically adopts a catch-all strategy and therefore place pragmatism before principle.
What is a representative party?
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A theory, which assumes that conditions of material scarcity breed egoistical and acquisitive values, in which case politics will be dominated by economic issues – while conditions of widespread prosperity will entail that individuals express more interest in ‘quality of life’ issues.
What is postmaterialism?
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A struggle over the legitimate meaning of terms and concepts. For instance freedom, democracy and justice.
What is politics?
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An ideology is characterized this way if it wishes to radically change society in order to establish new power structures.
What is progressive?
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The parties that currently support the present government (remember that in Denmark the governments are typically minority governments and therefore rely on a declaration of support from other parties in order to represent a majority in Folketinget)
What are Socialist People’s party and the Red-Green Alliance?
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The party that supported the previous government (remember that in Denmark the governments are typically minority governments and therefore rely on a declaration of support from other parties in order to represent a majority in Folketinget)
What is Danish People's Party?
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This model explains the entire political process by describing this process as a series of inputs and outputs between the major actors, which are defined as the people, the gatekeepers and the government.
What is Easton's model?
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According to Daniel Bell economics have triumphed over politics – meaning that political parties in most western societies compete for power simply by promising higher levels of economic growth – and resulted in this.
What is 'the end of ideology'?
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An ideology is characterized this way if its inherits ideas support the existing power structure of society.
What is legitimizing?
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A type of party that drastically reduce its ideological baggage in order to appeal to the largest possible number of voters.
What is a catch-all party?
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The party with the most seats in Folketinget (the Danish parliament) currently.
What is Denmark’s Liberal party (Venstre)?