POLI 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Night-Watchman State, Jus Sanguinis, Social Democracy
23 Nov 2017
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Is mobilized and maintained for collective projects organizations certain conclusion. Political = every systematic effort to influence other humans in pursuit of some design: politics is about disagreement or conflict that arises in society. No value judgements made about elite rule in elitism: liberal social contract, night watchman. Imaginary state of nature (individuals exist without government) Individuals coming together to define how they will live. Limited gov(cid:495)t intervention in market, but ok for security purposes. Respect autonomy, rights and doing no harm. Challenged by communitarianism: state plays a role in uniting: liberalism & communitarianism society around common set of values, the state & general will. State should be tied to uphold the general will of civil society: forms of power: Parliament may make or repel whatever laws it chooses. Parliament cannot bind its successors in any way. Often a hereditary monarch created by human agreement to wield power: max weber(cid:495)s types of authority/legitimacy tradition) qualities, forms of sovereignty: other sovereigns.
