Politics
Development of the Discipline
Origin of the State
Modern Classification of Government
Organs of the Government
100
the art of getting things done at every level, the communication between groups
What is politics?
100
Based on logic and rationality, Plato and Aristotle contributed to
What is ancient thinking?
100
A territory having population, government, and independence, the government is an agent of
What is a state?
100
In a state, either a democracy or dictatorship
What is structure of authority?
100
The executive, legislature, and judiciary
What are the organs of the government?
200
In behaviour, culture, values, in groups and government
What are the reflection of politics in every day life?
200
Based on faith and religion, St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas contributed to
What is medieval thinking?
200
The state is a divine creation, and the leader (King) is God's deputy sent to run the state
What is the divine theory?
200
In a state, either done by a federal or unitary system
What is the distribution of power?
200
made of the regular executive (bureaucrats) and top executive (ministers), executes policies
What is the executive?
300
how politics is transmitted to generations through socialization within the family, school, media, clubs, and the workplace
What is political socialization?
300
Where faith was replaced by rationalism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill and Marx lived in and contributed to
What is the modern era?
300
The state was born through the use of force, concept of "mine" began
What is the force theory?
300
Who the government is responsible to, either the parliament in a parliamentary system or to the president in a presidential system
What is the principle of responsibility?
300
Either unicameral, or bicameral, enacts laws
What is the legislature?
400
the study of political behaviour and institutions and covers topics such as political theory, comparative politics, international relations, public administrations and policies and law
What is political science?
400
An idea by Aristotle, it is a process which guarantees the rule of law
What is an election?
400
The state is a result of a contract and a state of nature, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau contributed to
What is the social contract theory?
400
Basis on quantity, rule by one, few or many, either a monarchy/tyranny, aristocracy/oligarchy, or polity/democracy
What is the tradition classification of government?
400
implements laws and hands out sanctions, made of the lower court of original jurisdiction and the higher court of appeal
What is the judiciary?
500
Is made up of the input (people) and the output (government) and is the foundation of our society
What is the political system?
500
A book written by Machiavelli, which taught four main ideas: secularism, the art of ruling, Machiavellism, and nationalism
What is "The Prince"?
500
The state is a natural growth, not a make
What is the evolutionary theory?
500
Government by the people, of the people, and for the people, and has six essential elements - rights and freedoms, equality, accountability of the government, rule of law, political competition and constitutionalism
What is democracy?
500
To establish "the fact", interpret the law, create laws, uphold the constitution, and for judicial review
What are the functions of the judiciary?