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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