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| how marx described religion |
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| workers not yet ready, revolutionary party to lead |
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| workers not needed, the revolution is all about the peasants |
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| approach to revolution; "Black Box" |
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| as long as inputs to PS meets the output in government there wont be a revolution; Black Box |
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| Robert Dahl- views politics as an open arena |
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| found in most English speaking countries, parliamentary system |
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| Westminster Democracy (2) |
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| a. weak second chamber, b. cabinet of co-equal's, c. unwritten constitution, d. First past the post election, e. Two party system |
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| umbrella term that we use for all the personel and offices that make up the government |
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| Optimal means for a tyrant to hold onto power? |
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| Repress and keep on repressing |
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| a law is made in accordance with the previsions of the constitution |
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| do people accept the law as valid? |
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| First socialist revolution to take place in... |
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| Weber's Arch-Types of Authority; Traditional |
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| monarchies, through heridity thats why we follow them, b/c we always have |
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| Weber's Arch-Types of Authority; Charismatic |
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| follow them b/c people like their character |
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| Weber's Arch-Types of Authority; Legal-Rational |
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| giving your devotion to a set of principles, no person is above those principles, that person losses power's after their term is over |
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| Social Psychology; Relative Deprivation |
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| compairing your country (self) to another country (person) saying why cant i have what they have, or saying things are better than they were but not as good as they should be |
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| Social Psychology; J-Curve |
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| measures the probability of a revolutionary uprise accuring, Poland= when they ran out of barrowed money they lost the ability to meet popular expectation |
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| Czar is a "holy" nice guy ,so anything that went wrong was the fault of the lower power holders, and if he knwe what was going on he would set them straight, shattered by crushing of demonstrations on Bloody Sunday (1905) |
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| power is distributed unequally through societies, the pyramid |
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| crisis leads to the creation of new ideologies as a solution, ex. Hitler creation of Nazism |
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| part of our everyday lives, rich use it to mask and justify their power |
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| form of government in parlimintary system for non-english speaking countries |
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| Consensus Democracy; Coalition government |
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| they highest non majority is giving the first shot to team up w/another non majority to create a majority |
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| Consensus Democracy; proportional represintation |
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| vote for a party not a person |
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| Consensus Democracy; heterogenous societies |
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| work best with countries with more than one ethnic group |
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| historical study tf a small number of cases to arrive a t some generalization of politics |
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| Under Socialism (actual practice) |
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| state and party separate in theory only |
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| One Party Regimes; Justification (4) |
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Rise of multi-party states in post-Cold War period
1. political completion is alien to country
2. Problems are so great that they cant afford the devisireness of democracy
3. single party to mobilize and intergrate all of our prople into the new states so we can facilitate development
4. need to transform society require one strong party w/a vision |
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| Liberal Democracy has won over all ideologies, "End of History" |
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| Marx and Engels vision of Communism; |
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a. state will eventually disappear
b. gov't ownership of means of production
c. work according to ability; receive according to need
d. dictatorship of the proletariat
e. class consciousness |
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| Types of 3rd World Countries: |
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1. Oil producers: Middle East
2. Newly Industrializing Countries: Pacific Rim
3. Less Developed Countries
4. Least Developed Countries: "4th World" |
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| organization that controls the trade in a particular commodity; OPEC- Organization of Petrolium Exporting Countries |
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Foundation of democratic liberties in English-speaking democracies |
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1. political change followed by;
2. sweeping, transformational social change |
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| most democracies are protective in nature...ex. Bill of rights, govt there to protect individual rights |
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| Democracy in developing world.. |
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| only recent development; many were one-party states until late 1980's |
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| 5 remaining Communist Countries: |
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| China, Cuba, Laos, N. Korea, Vietnam |
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