Canadian Government and Politics Chapter 1

The activity by which public authorities settle rival claims.

<p>The bourgeoisie and proletariat.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Middle class.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Working class.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of power based on the recognition by the person or persons obeying a command or rule that the person or organization issuing the command or rule has a legitimate right to do so and should be obeyed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A perspective on politics that insists on the overriding importance of social classes based on their relationship to the means of producing and distributing wealth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of power based on the use or threat of force (e.g., fines, imprisonment).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Originally a Marxist concept involving the claim that the values and beliefs of the dominant class are accepted as normal and inevitable by society as a whole, despite the fact that they are contrary to the true interests of subordinate classes. Feminism and theories of racial domination have also used the concept of cultural hegemony.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A framework for interpreting and explaining politics and society that sees class divisions as the fundamental base of conflict in society and associates politics with a pervasive pattern of domination by those who own and control the means of creating and distributing wealth over those who do not; named after 19th-century political theorist Karl Marx.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A political system based on the formal equality of all citizens, in which there is a realistic possibility that votes can replace the government, and in which certain basic rights and freedoms are protected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The increasing interdependence of states, economies, and societies throughout the world, a phenomenon characterized by, among other things, dramatically higher levels of international trade and capital mobility than in the past, the increased mobility and migration of peoples, cultural convergence in terms of consumer tastes between societies, particularly in the developed countries of the world, and the emergence of international institutions for the development and enforcement of economic and human rights standards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The acceptance by most people that the rules and institutions comprising the state are fair and should be obeyed. It is closely related to the concept of consent in democracies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To define a concept in terms of the method or methods used to measure it. For example, democracy might be defined as a political system in which all adults have the legal right to vote and more than one political party competes to form the government. Both of these criteria can be measured.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a worldview that rejects absolute truths of any kind and conceives of state-society relations as contingent and relative but of the state as nonetheless oppressive. This oppression may be targeted at groups based on their race, gender, ethnicity, sexual preference, or some other trait that places them outside the dominant group in control of the levers of state power.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The issues, concepts, and ideas current in a society's politics at a given point in time. The capacity to get an issue onto the agenda or framed in a particular way may be an indication of political influence, but the ability to keep an issue off the public agenda may also be a sign of a group's influence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a form of democracy in which citizens delegate law-making authority to elected representatives, holding them responsible for their actions through periodic elections.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a vital principle of democratic governments and their agents must be based on the authority of law and that all persons, the governed and those who govern, are subject to the same laws.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a concept that refers to norms of interpersonal trust, a sense of civic duty, and a belief that one's political participation matters. Contemporary theorists like Robert Putnam argue that the successful functioning of democracies depends on a high level of social capital among the general population that is reflected in social networks, such as work, church groups, community associations, clubs, and the like.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The structures through which the public authority is exercised including the legislature, bureaucracy, courts, police, armed forces, and other publicly owned or controlled institutions, such as schools and hospitals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a system of government that suppresses all the dissent in the name of some supreme goal</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a term used by Alexis Tocqueville in Democracy in America(1835) to refer to the danger that majoritarian democracy might oppress the rights of minorities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Karl Marx.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An instrument through which the small minorities control most of a society's wealth and maintain their social and economic dominance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An inherently patriarchal institution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An essentially oppressive and even repressive society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The October Crisis, surrounding terrorist activities by the Front de Libération du Québec, in 1970.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above (E)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rules and institutions of the state are seen as reasonable and accepted by citizens.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unstable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Class Conflict.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alexis de Tocqueville.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Michael Ignatieff.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nationalism is a feeling that one's country is superior to another in all respects, while patriotism is merely a feeling of admiration for a way of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers