Pols Review

What is Government?

• The institutions and procedures through which a land and its people rule.

• a group of people that rule over everybody and the people don't have a say

• May be simple as a tribal council (that makes all the decisions) or like our own system with separate branches and levels of government.

• idk

What is Autocracy?

• A small group of landowners, military officers, religious leaders or wealthy merchants rules

• A single individual rules

• A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant role in the governmental process.

• formal and effective limits are placed on the powers of government

What is Oligarchy?

• A small group of landowners, military officers, religious leaders or wealthy merchants rules

• A single individual rules

• A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant role in the governmental process.

• formal and effective limits are placed on the powers of government

What is Democracy?

• A small group of landowners, military officers, religious leaders or wealthy merchants rules

• A single individual rules

• A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant role in the governmental process.

• formal and effective limits are placed on the powers of government

What does constitutional limits on government mean?

• A small group of landowners, military officers, religious leaders or wealthy merchants rules

• A single individual rules

• A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant role in the governmental process.

• formal and effective limits are placed on the powers of government

What does Authoritarian mean?

• Formal and effective limits are placed on
  the powers of government

• No formal or effective limits on
  government’s power of any kind

  
  

• No formal limits are placed on
  government but government may be effectively limited by
  other social institutions

What does Totalitarian mean?

• Formal and effective limits are placed on
  the powers of government

• No formal or effective limits on
  government’s power of any kind

  
  

• No formal limits are placed on
  government but government may be effectively limited by
  other social institutions

What is Politics? (multiple answers)

• The 5 principles of politics can be used to explain political
  action

• The conflicts and struggles over the leadership, structure,
  and policies of government

• Politics takes many forms

• People fighting each other

What are the 5 principles?

• All political behavior has a purpose

• Institutions structure politics

• All politics is collective action

• Political outcomes are the products of individual
  preferences, institutional procedures, and collective
  action

• History matters

  
  

What is the Rationality Principle?

• All behavior has a purpose; nothing is done for no reason.

• Not random, no forethought, and calculated moves.

  Political actors pursue policy preferences, reelection,
  power, and to maximize their agency budgets

  
  

• Institutions structure politics

• Institutions are the rules and procedures that provide
  incentives for political behavior