CPO 3010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Market Failure, Jus Soli, Parliamentary Sovereignty
25 Aug 2016
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Authoritarian regimes: a regime lacking democratic characteristics, ruled by a single leader or small group of leaders. Civil society: the sphere of organized, nongovernmental, non violent activity by groups larger than individual families or firms. Her daughter has a jumping rope club with 2 other people = civil society. Civic culture: a political culture in which citizens hold values and beliefs that support democracy, including active participation in politics but also enough deference to the leadership to let it govern effectively. Example: united states and britain have a culture attitude that promotes citizens to participate in democracy, while in mexico the culture beliefs lead the citizens to view themselves as primarily as subjects with no right to control the government. Bourgeoisie: the class that owns capital; according to marxism the ruling elite in all capitalist societies. Comparative method: the means by which scholars try to mimic laboratory conditions by careful selection of cases.
