unit 1a review

majoritarian politics

almost all benefit; almost all pay.

entrepreneurial politics

a few pay; almost all benefit

client politics

few benefit; almost all pay

interest group politics

few benefit; few pay

democracy

sovereignty with the people

dictatorship

sovereignty in one person

unitary

sovereignty in central government

confederation

sovereignty in local government

monarchy

sovereignty in a king

oligarchy

sovereignty in a small group of people

federal system

sovereignty shared between central and local

bureaucratic view

government policy is dictated through entrenched, unelected members of agencies

creedal passion view

government is pressured to adopt policies on behalf of people with strong beliefs

pluralistic view

numerous groups compete in the government system to get their policies enacted

power elite view

government policy is determined by powerful people outside of the system like George Soros and the Koch brothers

class view

government is an instrument through which powerful heads of corporations can help themselves

rousseau’s “ on the social contract”

man is born free but everywhere he is in chains

locke’s “two treatises of government”

the great and chief end of men’s uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property.

Hobbes’s “leviathan”

hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war

Montesquieu’s “spirit of the laws”

government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits

magna carta

no man shall be seized or imprisoned or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed ie exiled, or deprived of his standing in any way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land

declaration of independence

in every stage of these oppression we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms.

sovereignty

no higher authority

power

the ability of one person to get another person to act in accordance with the first person’s intention

state

needs 4 things: territory, people, government, sovereignty

issue

conflict, real or apparent, between the interests, ideas, or different beliefs of different citizens

politics

the activity by which an issue is agitated or settled

legitimacy

political authority confessed by law or by state or natural constitution

nation

group of people with common language, religion, culture, physical attributes

democracy

the rule of the many