Mind Control
This is what political culture is, according to the non-VB definition.
What is a collection of beliefs and values that a society has about the justification and operation of a country's government?
Coordinated group action designed to achieve a goal individuals acting alone could not obtain.
What is collective action?
The process of keeping citizens isolated from one another so they cannot form groups threatening a leader's power.
What is atomization?
Capitalism and socialism differ on who controls this.
What are the means of production?
These are the three types of legal systems found around the world.
What are civil law, common law, and religious law?
To predispose people to interpret facts by carefully choosing and building a conceptual framework.
What is framing?
These are the three complications of acting collectively.
What are coordination, compromise, and free riding?
Hiding your true political feelings while publicly saying what those in power want to hear.
What is preference falsification?
Under feudalism craftsmen controlled their own means of production; under industrial capitalism, laborers became these.
What are easily replaceable cogs in the productive machinery (wage laborers with no control over production)?
Latin for 'let the decision stand' — this is the doctrine of following prior court rulings in common law
What is stare decisis (precedent)?
The news only tells stories that are traumatic, unusual, or 'sexy' — this is called this.
What is the dramatic imperative (or information bias)?
The individually rational exploitation of shared resources to the detriment of the community.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
Jeremy Bentham's prison concept — where prisoners could be watched at any time but never knew when — used by Foucault to explain government population control.
What is the Panopticon?
Marx predicted capitalism's competition would drive a constant push to lower wages — a 'race to the bottom' — because the labor pool is treated as this.
What is a common resource (commons)?
These are the three schools of jurisprudence that have vied for dominance in the U.S.
What are natural law, positivist jurisprudence, and sociological-realist jurisprudence?
These are the agents of political socialization — the individuals and institutions a group learns its political culture from.
What are family, schools, media, peers, religious institutions, and government?
This is the primary collective action provided by government, according to Van Belle.
What is collective security?
Getting citizens to police each other, sometimes making it a crime not to report revolutionary activity.
What is peer policing?
This is the Marxist challenge to Realism — that Realism ignores this.
What is economic class / class struggle?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the power of judicial review in the United States.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
People consuming only news that confirms their existing beliefs, and interpreting the same facts differently based on ideology, are examples of these two concepts.
What are selective exposure and selective perception?
Van Belle argues this is the source of government — in an anarchic environment people live in constant fear, so the collective pursuit of security drives its formation.
What is anarchy as an impetus for government?
The level of force a leader must use to maintain control is related to this.
What is the level of dissatisfaction (dissatisfaction of the population)?
Marx predicted revolution, but it didn't happen because governments did this instead.
What is intervened through collective action — adopting policies limiting labor exploitation and giving workers some of what they demanded?
The view that the Constitution should mean what the framers originally intended versus the view that it should be interpreted to reflect modern values — these are called this.
What are original intent (natural law/positivist) and the living constitution (legal realist)?