Comp Pol Test 1
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- congruency theory
- Political culture and political structures generally coincide
- external sovereignty
- right to make binding agreements with other states
- government
- An organization of individuals who have the power to make binding decisions on behalf of a particular community
- Individual political culture
- i. Governance should be restricted to encouraging private initiative ii. Private concerns are more important than public concerns iii. Cynical view of politics iv. Mid Atlantic, North central and west
- internal sovereignty
- right to determine matters having to do with one's own citizens
- Moral Political culture
- i. Society is help to be more important that the individual ii. A Good government promotes the public good iii. Positive view of politics iv. Mainly in northern states (central, western, and new England)
- nation
- A group of people who have a common identity based on a shared characteristic (e.g., common territory, ethnicity, language, history, etc.).
- nation-state
- When national-identification and sovereign political authority coincide.
- policy performance
- The outputs (extractions, distributions, regulations, and symbolic acts); its what a government does. Does not include appropraite income
- political communication
- The flow of information (free or controlled)
- political recruitment
- How people are selected for political activity and govt offices
- political socialization
- How political culture is transmitted and developed
- Political System
- a system involved in the making of authoritative public decisions.
- sovereignty
- legal authority over a population or particular territory, based on the recognized right to self determination.
- state
- a political system that possesses sovereignty
- system
- set of integrated parts
- Traditionalistic political culture
- i. Social and family ties are important ii. Embraces a hierarchy society as part of the natural order of things iii. Government should be restricted to maintaining the social order