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5 Characteristics of Power

1. The person in power makes the rules

2. Groups have more power than individuals

3. Power can shift or change

4. People are motivated to get power

5. Power can be used for good or evil

Uses of Power

1. Persuasion-Convincing someone to change

2. Coercion-Forcing someone to change

3. Rewards-Give something to someone to get them to change

4. Expertise-Providing knowledge or wisdom to influence someone

Kinds of Power

1. Wealth-Pro:helps reward, Con:can get taken away as punishment

2. Knowledge-Pro:helps gain wisdom, Con:can be used against someone

3. Violence-Pro:helps enforce, Con:people can rebel against you

Max Weber

Monopoly of violence over a territory. It relies on sovereignty and power

Authority

Power that has been defined in a legal or official way

Legitimacy

When power is accepted as valid by the people

Traditional Legitimacy

Rests on history and ritual. The idea that someone or something is valid because it has always been that way

Charismatic Legitimacy

 The power of force of ideas or beliefs. Typically embodied by a person

Legal-Rational Legitimacy

A system of laws that are neutral. Leaders gain acceptance because of the law

Nation

 Is a cultural and or ethic entity 

State

 Is an institution and political entity

Sovereignty

The state makes its own laws that are not under control of any other authority

Nation-State

 That the two exist together(political and cultural)

Government

 Institution

Executive Power

Carry out the laws

Judicial Power

 Interprets the laws

Legislative Power

Passed the laws

Federal

A national system of government where power is shared between a central national authority and individual state governments

Confederal

A form of government where independent states join together for limited common purposes, but keep their own supreme power and sovereignty

Unitary

A system of government where all power belongs to one central national authority

Politics

The process

Civil Society

Organizations outside of the state

Healthy CIvil Society

Civil Society binds people together. Typically class, ethnicity, race, gender does not matter 

Unhealthy Civil Society

Social organization is poor and divided by ethnic, religions, political or class lines

Public Policy

Impact the people

Regime

The behaviors and rules of politics

Authoritarian

One person has all of the power and above the law

Democratic

The power is held by the people and no one is above the law

Liberal Democracy

It is real and authentic political participation  

Illiberal Democracy

Participations vote has no real power and no impact on the government

Capacity vs Autonomy

 Ways to measure state whether it is success or failure

Globalization

Is the process of expanding connections between states, society, economies

Supranational Organization

International political and economic organizations of a nation

HDI- Human Development Index

Created by the united nations to rank countries from most developed to least developed world wide