[GOVT 1313] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (110 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Chapter 1: five principles of politics: 2-6 ee. Gigantic enterprise of hundreds of thousands of workers. Oldest depts: state, treasury, justice, and defense. Bureaucratic rivalries in dhs ^ led to difficulties helping katrina situation. What is government? - composed of institutions and processes that rulers establish to strengthen and perpetuate their power or control over a land and its inhabitants. Oligarchy: small group of people in power. Democracy: populace has some influence over decision making. Procedural limits - how gov goes about their control. Authoritarian gov - gov kept in check by outside group such as church or labor union or business. Totalitarian gov - gov kept in check by no one, seek to eliminate the outside groups. ^constitutional gov - constitution defines the above limits. Conscription: gov req. certain involuntary services of citizens (ex. the draft, jury duty: 7-11 mx.
