Chapter 1

Who wrote “Leviathan or The Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil”, published in 1651?

What term refers to the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience?

What term refers to the patterns of social interactions between individuals with a shared culture?

What term refers to the ability of one entity to get another entity to do something they otherwise might not do?

What kind of power is forceful, coercive, and usually done through militaristic and/or economic means?

What kind of power involves influence without the usage of coercive pressure?

What did Hobbes believe was the natural condition of manking?

Fill in the blanks: “Where there is no ____ _____, there is no law; where no law, no _____.”

What are the three reasons for aggression? (Otherwise known as gain, safety, and reputation)

What kind of anarchy is characterized by a concept of lawlessness and discord in the political system?

What kind of anarchy demonstrates a lack of central authority amongst the states, otherwise known as a lack of a worldly governmental power?

Who believed in life, liberty, and property?

What term refers to rights individuals are born with, rights that the government cannot take away?

Who was influenced by John Locke’s ideas?

What term refers to the symbol for the innate goodness of an uncivilized individual not yet exposed to the corrupting influences of civilization?

Who believed that humans are noble savages?

What term refers to the agreement to form government and abide by its rules and laws, involving reciprocal obligations? (Written by Rousseau in 1762)

What kind of perspective seeks to understand public opinions?

What kind of perspective looks at information across time?

What kind of perspective looks at information as it relates to the rest of the world?

What are the 4 reasons for why government is necessary?

What term refers to the right to govern, possessed by a given figure?

What term refers to the supreme political power of a government to regulate its affairs without outside interference?

What kind of sovereignty bases a government’s power on the consent of its people?

What form of government shows a dominance in religious influence over the government?

What form of government involves the total control that one entity holds over a nation as a means to suppress the other interests and opinions of their opponents?

What form of government involves the generational inheritance of power in a given nation?

What form of government allows its people to govern through the institution of elected representatives?

What form of democracy allows political decisions to be directly made by the people and not by their elected representatives?

What term refers to the procedure by which voters can propose a law or constitutional amendment?

What term refers to the electoral device where legislative or constitutional measures are referred by the legislature to the voters for approval or disapproval?

What term refers to the procedure that allows the people to vote to dismiss an elected official from state office before their term has expired?

What term refers to the notion that a government is based on elected representatives? (Also known as a representative democracy)

What principle of democratic government involves the right to vote?

What principle of democratic government refers to the larger increase in power the bigger the vote they receive?

What group is protected by principle of democratic government involving rights?

What term refers to the lifelong process by which people form their ideas about politics through which they acquire political values?

What are some concepts changing in America today?

What factors affect this decline in America?