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the ability to get people or groups to do what they otherwise would not do through coercion, persuasion, or leadership. |
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All individuals and institutions that excert power and make public policy through direct action or political participation whether they are in the government or not |
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the leadership oin power or hold authority at a particular moment in as state roughly akin to an american administration |
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the priamrily psychological sense of identification with a people because of culture, geography, or linguistic ties |
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the people and agencies which implement or execute government policy |
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the political structure that passes laws |
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the political structure athat adjudicates cases and applies the law |
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the power of the courts to modify or nullify the actions of the legislatures and executive |
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the system of government twhere power id divided into several structures- edxecutive, legislative, and judicial- with the ability to check the power of the other structures |
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the institution and practices that endure from government to government |
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the set of beliefs or convictions that (1) identify progblems in a political culture, (2) explain wehy they exist, and (3) prescribe a cure for the problems |
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independent legal authority over a population in a particular place |
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a system that operates according to a predictable known, and visible set of law and procedures |
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the process through which groups of people governm themselves or are governed through authority |
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the belief the authority is properly ruling |
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supranational organization |
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an international organization that a state may surrender sovereignty to in order to prusue a broader regional or global purpose |
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all states must deal with five interlocking concerns (1) solving identity concerns; (2) building and maintaining legitimacy (3) responding to citizen participation and (4) distributing the states's resources |
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regimes in which sub national units have littler or no power |
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constitutional practice in which sub national units are granted considerable power |
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the collection of history, values, beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, traditions, and symbols that define and influence political behavvior with a state |
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the institutions and methods of developing and reinforcing significant public beliefs, attitudes and practices |
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the decisions mady by a state that define what it will do |
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an organized group of people with their primarypurpose of electing its members, promoting a particular ideology, or advancing a particular issue |
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power by the people or as John Locke once said a government that has the consent of the people |
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the spread of representative govenrment to more countries and process of making governments more representative |
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the increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of people, clutures, economies, and nation state facilitated by technology , trade and cultural diffusion |
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a process by which a political regime is overthrown and replaced because of broad popular support and fundamental economic, social, or political changes are made |
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Pluto, god of the underworld, god of wealth |
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Minerva, godess of stategic warfare, and arts and crafts |
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sun god, god of archery, healing, and truth |
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Diana, godess of hunting and of young girls, also of moon |
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venus, godess of love and beauty |
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mercury, the messenger god, god of commerce |
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Mars, God of brutal warfare |
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Vulcan, ugly and lame, god of the forge |
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Vespa, godess of the hearth |
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Eros, god of love or love itself |
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