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| A social relationship characterized by activity involving conflict and cooperation in the exercise of power. |
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| A type of casual relationship in which the power wielder affects the behavior, attitudes, beliefs of another actor. Any social situation involving collective action. |
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| Are regular interactins across the state(country) boundries when at least one actor is a non-state or private actor does not operate on behalf of a state government. |
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| Attitudes and values held by individuals about their political system. |
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| Treaty of Westphalia 1648 |
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| Officially created the modern state system. Created the system decentralized sovereign and equal units. These units are secular or non-religious, responsible to no higher authority. The treaty is where the key characteristics of the modern state system we formalized. |
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| Unitary, Federal, confederation |
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| 4 Characteristics of states |
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| Fixed territory, some form of government, must have control over htier population, and is independent from outside control. |
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| The text seeks to introduce you to the intriguing discipline of... |
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| The focus of the text is on 4 key questions. What are the 4 questions? |
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1. Can we as citizens and students articulate and defend a view of the good political life and its guiding political views?
2. Can we develop a science of politics to help us understand significant political phenomena- the empirical realities of politics?
3. Can we bring a high level of political prudence or wisdom to bear on judgements about politics and public issues?
4. Can citizens and students creatively address the futur of politics? |
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| The chapters in part 1 of the text seek to introduce you to.... and the study of.... ..... |
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| politics and the study of political science. |
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| How does the text define the concept of politics? |
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| A process, whithin or among political communities, whereby public values are artuculated, debated, and prescribed; diverse political actors cooperate and struggle for power to satisfy their vital needs, protect their fundamental interests, and advance their perceived desires; and policy judgements are made and implemented. |
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| The textbook chooses the games in chapter 1 because they illustrate... |
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Physical annihilation, the struggle of power, and nonviolent civil disobedience.
Military power, political cunning, and the appeal to conscience. |
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| How can the metaphor of a game serve our understanding of politics? (summarize) |
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| It helps to underline the basic elements of the contest aspect of each political situation. |
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| What are the basic elements of the political game? |
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| players, stakes, rules, strategies and tactics |
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| Why are the games politicians play more complicated than football or chess? |
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| Politicians involved in a certain battle may not follow the same set of rules as their opponent, no agreement on rules, shifts from one game to another without warning, and politicians may attempt to play several games at once. |
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| How does the text define the concept of power? |
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| Influence. Political ,legal, economic, military, social, or moral ability of one political actor to get another political actor to do or not do something. |
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| The political game of wipeout: The Politics of Desctruction was practiced by the city of Athen against the island of ... |
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| What are the tree possible outcomes for Melos? |
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1. Life and freedom, at best
2. Submission and domination if Melos agreed to accept Athens's terms
3. War, destruction, slavery, and death, at worst. |
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| When the Khmer Rouge undertook the restructuring of Cambodian society and killed millions of their fellow citizens, they were practicing the game of... |
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| ....is another pattern of political wipeout |
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| In the Lion and Fox: The Politics of the Nation-State game, the key players are.... What is at stake for each state's vital interest |
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a. The rulers of states
b. Each states vital interests: unity, independence, freedom, security, power, and prosperity. |
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| THe game of lion and fox is played primarily with ... and ..... |
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| Niccolò Machiavelli holds that a prince is justified in playing the game of lion and fox because "in actions of men, especially of princes... the...." |
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| The two famous works by Niccolo Machiavelli that provide a realistic blueprint of leadership are...and.... |
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| The Prince and The Discourses. |
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| For Machiavelli, mility power means a ... .... |
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| What was the Watergate scandal? How is it relevant to Lion and Fox? |
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| A series of scandals in President Nixon's administration. An attempted burglary of the Democrative Party's national headquarters at Watergate offic complete in D.C. (two of Nixon's reelection committee and his former attorney general involved). Nixon and his top advertisers attempted to cover it up. Nixon resigned under threat of impeachment. |
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| ... utilized civil disobedience: the politics of morality in his campaign for the independence of India during the 1940s. |
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| According to Thoreau, people of conscience are? |
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| people of superior morality and integrity, who are human beings first and subjects second. |
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| What are the stakes for Thoreau? |
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| The abolition of moral evil and the return to the commandments of higher law. |
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| In Thoreau's case, what are the evils? |
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| For people of conscience who play "civil disobedience" which rules apply? |
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1. Game must be peaceful.
2. Act of disobedience must be selectively aimed at an outrageous evil.
3. Those who are disobedient must be public, not secretive, in their actions.
4. Participants must be prepared to pay the price of their disobedience. |
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| How does the disobedient person convert the ruling establishment? (3 things they must do) |
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1. Effectively rallying own forces
2. making moral partisans of neutral and the indifferent
3. converting or weakening the position of the immoral ruling elite. |
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| Practicioners of civil disobedience are... .... |
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| What do the games presented in chapter 1 help you understand? |
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1. the character of the major players in politics.
2. The stakes involved in key political games.
3. the rules of politics.
4. Influential strategies and tactics. |
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| This chapter focuses on the challenging subject of politics and choice to underscore in yet another way the intimate connection between values, facts, and judgement. What are the five cases used to illustrate the dimensions of choice in politics? |
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1. Socrates' choice not to flee Athens to avoid an unjust punishment.
2. James Madison's choice of a new political theory to guide in the creation of the American Constitution of 1787 and the federal republic it undergirds.
3. the choice of citizens (and key leaders) of German to support Adolf Hitler in 1932 and 1933.
4. President Kennedy's choice of a blockade to counter the Soviet Union's placement of offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba in the fall of 1962.
5. President George W. Bush's choice to invade Iraq in 2003 |
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| The five cases illustrate that choices in politics can be... (4 answers). |
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| tragic, creative, burdensome, and perilous. |
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| The five cases studies invite critical thinking about what 5 important themes in politics? |
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1. Political Obligation.
2. Creativity in politics.
3. Responsible exercise of freedom.
4. Power of politics.
5. the importance of accurate information and sound assumptions in political decision making. |
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| By exploring the five cases and the choices they involve, we discover the intimate relationship of... (3). |
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| values, facts and judgement. |
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| Define political obligation |
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| a concept that explores why people obey or disobey those who demand their political allegiance, such as government, a law, or a state. |
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| Socrates has been accused of ... and of not believing in the gods. |
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| Corrupting the youth of Athens. |
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| Socrates has tried to teach his students to put... and... before their... .... |
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| virtue and wisdom before their private interests. |
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| Why can't Socrates escape and leave Athens? |
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| Because escaping would weaken the laws, government and state of Athens. Athens couldn't stand if it's lawful decisions had no power and could not be enforced. |
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| To the question, "Why should we obey the political community that makes claims on our allegiances?: Socrates' answers: |
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| Because of the contribution that the political community makes to our life, growth and fulfillmet, we are required to obey its laws. If we cannot persuade the political community that its laws are wrong we are obligated to obey them. |
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| What is the American revolution position on political obligation? |
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| When a government violates the trust that brought it into being, when it persistently violates the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and when it is not responsive to redress of grievances, the people have a right to revolt and overthrow such a government and establish a new one, based on their consent and didicated to the protection of their rights. |
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| The challenge for James Madison, the subject of our second case study, was as follows: How can we reconcile liberty and authority in a large state? |
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| allowing the states to control their local affairs while giving central government authority in matters concerning all members of the Union. |
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| What are the four major difficulties that plagued the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation? |
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| Disunion, large size, faction, and antirepublican danger. |
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| Madison was strongly committed to ... ... and ... .... |
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| popular government and human freedom. |
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| According to conventional wisdom in 1787, republican government was possible only in a.... |
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| small political community. |
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| ....argued in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that only an empire or strong central government based on the British model could hold together a political community as large as the new American nation. |
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