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| small group of very powerful people who run the country |
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-President
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| idea that politics is an open arena to compete against each other, fighting over money to the government to say they need it the most |
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| political scientist at Yale, Father of Pluralism Theory |
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roots in Revolutionary France; emotional – extreme love of one’s country,
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| negative, destructive, tend to think it splits groups apart and starts problems |
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| milder form of nationalism practiced in the U.S. |
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| pure democracy, everybody has a say on every issue, US once had it but now we have too many people |
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| public vote to remove someone from office b4 his term is up, and replaced by someone to finish that term |
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| public vote to remove an unpopular law from the books, |
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| reverse of referendum, public vote to put a new law in the books |
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| set up where government, labor, and business are all equal partners in decision making, not used in the US, not liked b/c it looks too much like socialism, created by Hitler, is used in Canada |
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| are most closely associated with Corporatism. |
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| Positive Liberty – deals with economic “freedoms” – I have the right to food, job, house, etc. |
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| deals with political freedoms from government action; first words in the Constitution “congress shall make no law” ex. Bill of Rights |
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| ruled by the people, it was looked down on at first in the 16 and 1700’s, until the US created-> |
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| Representative Democracy – |
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| people vote one person to represent us in the government |
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| making something bigger by putting together a lot of smaller things, ex. US is 50 little countries who came together to form the United States (a super country) |
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| European Union – a Super Country in the making, all the countries in Europe |
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| “the end of history” – American, capitalism and democracy has won over all other “ism’s” (ideologies) |
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| a territory that has a government over it, claimed borders |
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| a group of people with a common history, culture, language, and often a common territory the call home, you can have a nation w/o having a country |
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| say’s new ideologies arise in response to crisis |
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| popular during the 70’s, theory that says the communistic ideas and the democratic ideas will one day converge and the world will have a democratic government and a socialistic economy |
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| Dominant ideology in USA? |
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| if no one takes the majority of the votes, the person with the most votes wins, regardless if it’s a majority or not |
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| English speaking – parliamentary country uses it, |
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| -No written constitution – |
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| more like traditions that people agree with |
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| -“elected dictatorship” – |
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| not a dictatorial form of government, but when the government votes for something, everyone in each party votes with that party, so the majority will always win |
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| Collective responsibility – |
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| if you run on something i.e. the stimulus, and it doesn’t pass a vote after you win, the parliament says that it was a vote of un-confidence and you would have to resign |
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| non-English speaking - no vote for candidate, vote for a political party in hope that that party will get enough seats in parliament to run government |
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| list a party makes up to fill the entire parliament up, the more votes you get the more people on the list get in, starts with number one and goes to the bottom of the list |
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| the person with the most votes (not majority) gets another group to jump in with it to make it a majority, |
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Recent conflicts involving nationalism
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| feels he has to be an accurate vote on the majority back home |
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| feels he was elected b/c he has the confidence of the people |
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| mixture of both, on controversial votes he will tend to be a delegate, if the topic is less controversial, he would feel more free to vote as a trustee |
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| Ideology is a fake front made up by the ruling class made to blind the masses from what is really going on, ideology is false consciousness – eventually everyone will notice and rise up against the government |
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| Sigmund Fred – says religious beliefs are illusions based on physiological needs but the provide us with a frame work for understanding the world, (ex. Bible) |
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| ruling class does what they want, rich and powerful direct society in the direction they what it to go |
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| national myths, we develop a vision of the future that is an ideal life for us, and we direct toward that lifestyle |
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| modifies adherence to ideologies – |
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| Role of nationalism in communist society? |
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| Marx said that nationalism will disappear, however in communist countries it only took on a different variation of nationalism. |
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