Power
Abuse of Power
What is "power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely"?
Nation-State
What is an independent state, especially one in which the people share a common culture?
The Purpose of Government
What is order, protection, and public goods.
Definition of Politics
What is the process and method of making decisions?
A City-State
What is a sovereign state consisting of a city and its surrounding territories?
Formal Authority
What is power that has been defined in some legal or other official way?
What is the right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region, a group of people, or oneself?
The Building Blocks of Government
What is coercion and revenue collection?
Political Activity
What is "has a purpose"?
Direct Democracy
What is a form of government in which citizens make public decisions directly.
Legitimate Power and Authority
What is accepted as valid by the people they govern?
Public Good
What is a product or service that is available for all people to consume, whether they pay for it or not?
Aristotle's Classification of Government
What is the one, the few, or the many?
Political Activity Involves
What is collective action?
What is a system of government in which the powers of a monarch are limited by a constitution, either written or unwritten?
Social-Contract Theory
What is an unwritten contract between the ruled and the ruler?
Democracy
What is a system of government in which citizens exercise supreme power, acting either directly on their own or through elected representatives?
Nation-State
What is territorial integrity, stable population, code of laws, national sovereignty?
An Institution
What is an established organization, especially one providing public service, and the rules that guide it?
Communism
What is a system of government in which a single political party controls both the government and the economy?
The Five Sources of Power
What are legitimate, referent, rewards, coercion, and expertise
Republic
What is a nation in which supreme power rests with the citizens and is exercised by their elected representatives?
Involuntary Service
What is the military draft?
Types of Political Games
What is horse trading, walkout, power struggle, demolition derby, and civil disobedience?
Fascism
What is a form of totalitarian system in which business remains in private hands but under government control?