POL S101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jerry Falwell, Liberal Democracy, Social Conservatism
6 Apr 2016
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Terms: define and explain significance: politics: an escapable process through which we decide how to best manage our common affairs. Municipal, provincial, federal: power to: characterized the people"s power to do something. Everyone is empowered and has to capacity to realize certain goals. This is the way many people expect politics to be. Example: 2012 quebec student strikes and protests against tuition hikes: power over: there are inequalities in the distribution of resources, knowledge and opportunities and some have more opportunities to affect political outcomes than others. Democratization and class conflict took down absolute monarchies, but the foundations for modern states remained- the centralization of administrative, military and political powers within specific geographical territories: authority: socially approved power. Legal-rational authority: based on rule of law: democracy: a form of government whereby the people are governed according to the rules they themselves decide on. Demos(people) + kratos (rule: plato"s cave: the idea that philosophers were best suited to rule.
