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Politics
The social institution that distributes power, sets sociteys goals and makes decisions
Power
The Ability to achieve desired ends despite resistance from others
Government
A formal organization that directs the political life of a society
Authority
The power that people perceive as legitimate
Coercion
Power that people do not accept as rightly exercised
Traditional authority
Power legitimized by respect for long established cultural patterns
Rational legal authority
Power legitimized by legally enacted rules and regulations
Charismatic authority
Power legitimized by extraordinary personal abilities that inspire devotion and obedience
Routinization of charisma
The transformation of charismatic authority into some combination or traditional and rational legal authority
Monarchy
A political system in which a single family rules from generation to generation
Absolute monarchy
Rulers claimed a monopoly on power because of divine right
Constitutional monarchy
Monarchs are symbolic heads of state and elected officials rule the country
Democracy
A political system that gives power to the people as a whole
Representative democracy
Authority is in the hands of the leaders who have been elected by the people
Direct democracy
Eligible voters meet together to make decisions
Authoritarianism
A political system that denies the people participation in government
Totalitarianism
A highly centralized political system that extensively regulates people's lives
The government that governs the best is the government that governs least
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Welfare state
A system of government agencies and programs that provides benefits to the population
Special interest groups
Groups organized to advocate for a specific cause
Political action committees
The part of the special interests groups who charged with raising and spending money
Lobbyists
Individuals who are hired by special interests groups to advocate for their cause
Voter apathy
The idea that many voters do not vote because they feel their vote has no influence on an election
Executive branch
President, V.P and cabinet
4 year terms, 2 terms
Carry out laws
Legislative branch
Congress
House of Representatives and senate
Rep. Serve 2 year terms,
unlimited amount of terms
Senators serve 6 year terms, unlimited
435 reps and 100 senates
Make laws
Judicial Branch
Supreme Court and lower courts
Appointed by the president, confirmed by senate
Life time term
9 members of the court
Pluralist model
An analysis of politics that sees power as spread among groups of people
Power elite model
Power concentrated among the rich, coined by C. wright Mills
Marxist political economy model
Politics in terms of the operation of societies economic model
Political revolution
Over throw of one political system in order to establish another
Traits of a revolution
Rising expectations
Establishing a new legitimacy
Radical leadership by intellectuals
Unresponsive government
Terrorism
Acts of violence or the treat of violence used as a political strategy
Terrorism has 4 characteristics
Try to establishes violence as a legitimate political tactic
Used by groups and the government on its own people
Effective on democratic society
Terrorism as a meter of definition
War
Organized armed conflict among 2 or more nations
Causes of war
Perceived threats
Social problems
Political objectives
Moral objectives
Absences of alternatives
Draft
Call to service during war time
Military industrial complex
The close association of the the military and defense industry
Pursuing Peace
Deterrence
High technology dense
Diplomacy and disarmament
Resolving underlying conflict
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