Politics (Lectures)

Power

Politics (as a thing)

Political Philosophy

International Relations

Comparative Politics

Political Science

Empirical thoery

Interest group theory

Rational Choice Theory

Totalitarianism

Normative Theory

Communitarianism

Democratic Peace Theory

Marxism (as a Normative Thoery)

Political Ideology

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince

Politics and Culture

Realism (in International Relations)

Billiard Ball Metaphore (States)

Constructivism (in International Relations)

What is a Nation?

What is a State?

Sovereignty

Montevideo Convention

Constitutive Theory of State

Declarative Theory of State

Leviathan (as a Biblical term)

State of Nature (according to Hobbes)

Social Contract (according to Hobbes)

Feudalism

Impiricism

Nation-State

Westphalian State

Westphalian State System (1648)

Emergence of the European State ( 4 factors)

Primordialism

Modernism/Constructivism (same thing)

State becomes the Nation-State (3 factors)

Ideological State Apparatuses (4)

Monarchy

Absolute Monarchy

Constitutional Monarchy

Single-Party Regime

Military Regimes

Oligarchy

Theocracies

Features of Authoritarianism (4)

Features of Totalitarianism (5)

Political Paranoia

Late Totalitarianism

Leonid Brezhnev

Political Commisar

Long-term Developements leading to the fall of communist regimes (3)

One-Dimensional Superpower

Multi-dimensional superpower

Brezhnev Doctrine

Sinatra Doctrine

Why in 1989? (3 factors)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Regime Transition (2 circumstances)

Domestic Factors (2 aspects)

Civil Culture

Rise of the Middle Class

Dissension Among the Elite

Transition Paradigm (5 factors)

Why did democracy fail after Arab Springs (2011), when it succeeded after the fall of communism in the East Bloc? (3 reasons)

Hybrid Regimes

Competitive Authoritarian Regimes

Reasons for hybrid regimes (3)

Two Treatises of Government

State of Nature (according to Locke)

Natural Rights

Social Contract (according to Locke)

Codified Constitution

Non-codified Constitution

Components of Democratic Constitutions (5)

Separation of Powers (3 Branches of Government)

Executive Branch of Government

Legislative Branch of Government

Judicial Branch of Government

Judicial Review

Parliamentary systems

Presidential Systems

Semi-Presidential Systems

Prime Minister

Transformational vs. Transitional Leader

Unitary States

Federal States

Delegating Government in Unitary States (3 D's)

Federalism

Advantages of Federalism (4)

Problems with Federalism (5)