PSCI 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Psci 100 chapter 1: classification of political systems and liberal: the process of organizing factual information about governmental systems produces broad schemes of classification usually known as typologies. Founders of political science: aristotle and plato: they classified governments with two questions in mind. Monarchy (one): a regime in which soverign authority was vested in one person who ruled within the laws of the polis. Aristocracy (few): a system in which political power was held by a restricted class usually the wealthy and those noble ancestry that ruled in the general interest under the law. Oligarchy (few): regime where the wealthy minority used its power to exploit and oppress the impoverished majority. Democracy (many): in the greek term, was an exploitative form of government, in the sense that the many used their political power to obtain for themselves the wealth of the rich a majority oppressing a minority. It was the rule of the common people unchecked by legal restraint.
