polisci midterm

authority

command of the obedience of society’s members by a government

flows thrugh morals rthe society cherishes

legitimacy

a condition in which power is exerted by a common CONCENSIUS through established authority

legitiamate authority

the LEGAL AND MORAL right of a government to rule over a specific population and control a specific territory

political realist 

argument that considerations of NATIONAL INTEREST have always been paramount in international politics and always will be 

others argue that enlightened self-interest can lead to world peace and an end to the cycle of the unknown war 

political realism theory

the philosophy that power is the key variable n all political realtionsjops and should be used PRAGMATICALLY and PRUDENTLY to advance the national interest; policies are judged as good or as bad on the basis of their effect on national interest, not on their own level of morality.

JOHN STUART MILL

championed individual liberty and beleiebd individuals should be able to act just as they wanted to as long as not ahrming anyone and that coerscions is only justificable to prevent harm to others

john locke

liberalism - traiditon based on the social contract

dialectical materilaims by Karl Marx 

would leadx to a classless society 

conservatives

capitalism - unlimited economic growth

liberalism - the govenrment is best when it interferes the least

values of the left

socialism - favors social welfare and general prosperity

skinners utopia

focused on behaivior modificatoin as the solutom

viewed the scientici manipulation of human behavor as the key to sical and personal fullfillment was the key

its fictoinal founder mamanged to obtain “for taxesz” a traxt of land that represented self sufficiency .

WHAT MAKES UP A CONSTITUIONAL DEMOCRACY

1. elections

2. legislative assemblies

3. an independent judiciary

4. free press

5. constitution as a pedestal

brokered democracy by Calhoun

a theory that holds that the ineterest of major groups cannon be steamrolled by the majority without jeopardizing democracy and that legislators and decision makers hsould act as brokers in writign laws and devising policies that are acceptable to all major groups in society.

concurrent majority

a system in which the main fucntions of government is to mediate between and among the different economic, social, and sextional ineterest in US society