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| Key object of study, smallest political unit - the individual as a thinker and actor in the political world |
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| Normative Political Knowledge |
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| "The sovereign must exercise absolute power to reduce disorder...A powerful monarch should be established and obeyed...Voice of the people should be heard...however no one has any right to challenge the complete power of the monarch to make and enforce laws, as long as long as the monarch preserves social order." |
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| Advocated certain important roles for government in the economy such as enforcing contracts, protecting intellectual property rights, etc. |
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| Political Ideology: Individual |
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"Nature vs. Nurture"
Centers on disagreements whethera persoa's fundamental beliefs and behaviors are determined by innate needs and values they are born with or a product of they're environment and experiences |
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| Political Ideology: Individual, State, and Society |
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| Highest value in social arrangement is to maximize indivual liberty and freedom of action, collective good of society is most important, and individual freedom must be constrained by the state to achieve results that most benefit the overall society |
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| Political Ideology: Equality |
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| Every person is equal before the law, has equal political rights, and enjoys equality of opportunity OR material equality - every person should enjoy a comparable level of benefits and goods |
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| Attempts to prevent or slow the transition away from a society based on traditional values and the existing social hierarchy |
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| Places the highest value on individual freedom and posits that the rold of government should be quite limited |
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| Goal is to proivde high-quality, relatively equal conditions of life for everyone, with an active state assisting in the achievement of this goal |
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| Men with poor education and health were drafted into WWII, Beveridge thought the government should act as a welfare state to overcome disease, want, squalor, ignorance, idleness |
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| Cognitive, affective, and evaluative |
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| The configuration of an individual's political orientations |
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| Two levels in a belief system, one being facts, the other being constraint knowledge |
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| Nature of Political Culture |
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| Configuration of a particular people's political orientations |
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| Samuel Huntington Analysis |
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| Huntington finds that conflicts do not happen within civilizations but among them due to difference in beliefs |
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| Ronald Inglehart Analysis |
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| Observes that countries can be grouped with others that share similar values |
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| A comprehensive set of beliefs about the political world - about desirable political goals and the best ways to achieve those goals |
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