Political Science

The term politics comes from the word “____ ______” .​

During their time, politics were only practiced by a few people involved in governance and public affairs.​

city state

According to ______ ________ (2013) politics is the activity through which “people make, preserve and amend the rules under which they live”

Andre Haywood

It is a political organization which, through the government, exercises sovereign rule over a population within a defined territory.​

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Every _____ has it’s own set of laws, it is an organized political community under one government.​

State

Refers to the systematic study of governance and policies, political culture and activities, power relations and ideologies.​

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It entails understanding political ideas, ideologies, institutions, policies, processes, and behavior, as well as groups, classes, government, diplomacy, law, strategy, and war.​

Political Science

Who argued that political systems should be viewed as complex entities that interact with their environments, encompassing social, economic, and cultural factors?

David Easton

What is this?

Easton’s Political System

In charge of implementing or enforcing the law.

Executive Branch

Is responsible for formulating and amending the laws of the country adhering the contents of the Philippine Constitution.

Legislative Branch

Is responsible for adjudicating and interpreting the laws of the country in accordance with the provisions of the Philippine Constitution.

Judicial Branch

Throughout the various presidential administrations, Filipinos exercise Political participation through electoral voting, referendums, groups and protest.​

Political Participation

…develop theories to in order to make sense of the politics during their time.

Political Thinkers

_____________ the Father of Political Science, concerned himself determining the best way to organize, govern, and achieve the ends of the state.

Aristotle

He is known as one of the renowned social contract theorist who prescribed that society must be organized and governed.​

John Locke

Formulated his political ideas from his observations and practice of politics as an Italian salesman.​

Niccolo Machiavelli

He is an American professor and political commentator whose contributions include the waves of democracy.​

Samuel Huntington

Number of Rulers: Few

ACTING FOR THE​ COMMON GOOD​ (TRUE FORM)

Aristocracy

Number of Rulers: Few
ACTING FOR THE GOOD OF PRIVATE INTERESTS (PERVERSION)​

Oligarchy

Number of Rulers: Many​
ACTING FOR THE​ COMMON GOOD​ (TRUE FORM)

Polity

Number of Rulers: Many
ACTING FOR THE GOOD OF PRIVATE INTERESTS (PERVERSION)​

Democracy (Mob Rule)

The term applies to states in which supreme authority is vested in the monarch, an individual ruler who functions as the head of state and who achieves his or her position through heredity.​

Monarchy

Is also a government ruled by or consisting of people of a high social class or nobility.​

Aristocracy

The form or process of civil government or constitution in a country it refers to the organized society, political system, or state structure.​

Polity

It is government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes.​

Oligarchy

In the Greco-Roman world, an autocratic form of rule in which one individual exercised power without any legal restraint.​

Tyranny

A government of the people, by the people for the people.​ It is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state.

Democracy

___ ___ was a political leader whose communist ______ ______ government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During that time, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died of starvation, execution, disease or overwork.

Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge, in their attempt to socially engineer a ____________ _____________ society, took particular aim at intellectuals, city residents, ethnic Vietnamese, civil servants and religious leaders.

classless, communist

Some historians regard the Pol Pot regime as one of the most _________ and murderous in recent history.

barbaric

A belief, principle, or way of acting that people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time, or all of these beliefs, etc. in a particular society​.

Philosophical Tradition​

Analyses political topics based on observable behaviors by using natural science, methods particularly quantitative or statistical methods of analysis.

Behaviorlism

A teacher rewarding a student with a sticker for completing their homework (reinforcement) makes the student more likely to do their homework in the future is an example of…​

Example of Behaviorlism

Explores how individuals weigh options and choose one they think would be most beneficial to them.​

Rational Choice

This seeks to study topics which are either unexplored or about the marginalized sectors of society.​

Critical Approaches