Simplified Pols 2200 Midterm Review Question and answers correctly solved
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Simplified Pols 2200 Midterm Review Question and answers correctly solved
Government - correct answer - an entity that exercises control over a political unit
- history, natural desire for order
Social contract theory - correct answer - moral and political obligations = agreements made ...
Simplified Pols 2200 Midterm Review
Question and answers correctly solved
Government - correct answer ✔- an entity that exercises control over a
political unit
- history, natural desire for order
Social contract theory - correct answer ✔- moral and political obligations =
agreements made within society
- Enlightenment Age; why people accept and legitimize certain forms of
government; natural need for order
Authoritarian regime - correct answer ✔- a form of govt. in which ONE
LEADER OR GROUP HOLDS ALL POWER
- many view democracy as the superior form of government and yet there are
successful authoritarian regimes in power today. Ex) China & Russia
totalitarian regime - correct answer ✔- a form of govt. that is HIGHLY
CENTRALIZED and CONTROLS ALL POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS of
citizens
- ex) Nazi Germany
anarchy (not as ideology) - correct answer ✔- a state of disorder because
the people no longer recognize a source of authority
- ex) american revolution; in historical progression anarchy leads to leviathan
which leads to democracy
national/legal legitimacy - correct answer ✔- a belief that a government rules
by right because it has the CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED
, - measured through direct vote, representatives, or other means like survey
traditional legitimacy - correct answer ✔- a belief that government rules by
right of TRADITION or DIVINITY
- Historically = Chinese Mandate of Heaven; US tradition gets carried on
charismatic legitimacy - correct answer ✔- a belief that government rules by
right because the PERSONAL CHARISMA OF A LEADER has won the
people's support
- Leaders within government who have charismatic personalities often win
favor and can sway people to action. Historical examples: Hitler, Obama, and
Reagan.
state - correct answer ✔- an organized political community that exercises
LEGITIMATE USES OF FORCE and has a RECOGNIZED TERRITORY
- key = recognized territory; can contain multiple nations like Yugoslavia;
Changes w/ history; provides political structures like security, law and
infrastructure
nation - correct answer ✔- a group of people who share a PERCEIVED
COMMON IDENTITY and CLAIM A HOMELAND
- *social construct! can be determined by: ethnicity, language, history; kurds=
ex. of nation w/o a state
xenophobia - correct answer ✔- a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers
- This often spawns from nationalism
supranationalism - correct answer ✔- a state composed of smaller states
that come together in common cause
- ex) European Union
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