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Normative- "Should" Questions in the political world; based on claims about the individual, society, and state.
Empirical- Relies upon observation and analysis of real-world data, using scientific method to describe claims. |
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Commit to sustain
traditional values and
forms of behavior and
maintain social order. |
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highest value placed
on each individual's
natural rights to life,
liberty, and property. |
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Major western
ideologies; main goal is
to provide a high-quality
relatively equal standard
of living for all |
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Comprehinsive set of beleifs
about the political world, with
goals and the best way to
achieve them using human
nature, relation between
individual, state, and society |
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Vertical dimensionIndividual
engages
in actions.
Horizontal-conventional
action |
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Attempt to inflance the
allocation of public
values or other
actions of those in the
political system. |
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Attempt to
capture political
power directly by
placing its members
in government office |
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| large, sometimes informal, groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues. |
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| value allocation process (politics) that is grounded in the concept of the group—any aggregate of individuals who interact to pursue a common interest. |
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| A product that one individual can consume without reducing its availability to another individual, and from which no one is excluded. |
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| A condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist. |
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| Economic tripartism involving negotiations between business, labour, and state interest groups to establish economic policy; associated with social democracy. |
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| Advocacy groups that seek to protect people from corporate abuse like unsafe products, predatory lending, false advertising, astroturfing and pollution. |
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| influencing outcomes, and putting pressure on government |
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