Politics Key-terms Review §

(F) Day of the week: Tuesday Class: IS204 Created Time: December 31, 2019 3:57 PM Database: Class Notes Database Date: December 31, 2019 3:57 PM Days Till Date: Passed Last Edited Time: June 9, 2021 10:42 AM Type: Lecture

Politics is the Art of dealing with people/states

• For Interests
  • Mutual Interests
  • Zero-Sum Interests

Main Political Regimes §

Democracy §

Quality of Democracy

• Liberal

  Democracy of 8-9/10

  • Rights
    • Positive
    • Negative
  • Rule of Law
  • Check and Balance
  • Peaceful Power Transfer

• Semi/Quasi/Pseudo

  Partial Democracy: 2-7/10

  • Have Partially of
    • Rights
      • Positive
      • Negative
    • Rule of Law
    • Check and Balance
    • Peaceful Power Transfer

  Ex: 7 of Southeast Asia

  Larry Diamond Division of the 7 Partial Democracy §

  • 2 Democratic

    • Liberal
    • Electorial

  • 3 Authoritarian

    • Competitive
    • Hegemony Election
    • Closed

  • 1 Ambiguous

    Have political violence

    Ex: East Timor, Cambodia(1998)

• Decision Makings

  • Direct

    is used in the past

  • Indirect (Representation)

    Election System

    • Proportional Representation

      the number of seats a party gets is proportional to the fraction of vote it got

      • Gets 1/3 vote ⇒ 1/3 of all seats
      • Seat number is rounded up or down according to fraction

      Ex: Cambodia

    • Winner Takes All

      The party with simple majority, more than each party, gets all the seats

Non-Democracy §

• Dictatorship/Authoritarianism ⇒ 1 Party State

  Defined by themselves as Socialism/Communism

  Ex: China,

• Totalitarianism

  • Power change through hereditary
  • Power is in individual hands

  Ex: Brunei, North Korea

Government System §

• Leadership

  • Presidential

    President holds all the power over the country

  • Parliamentary

    • King/President: king symbol for state, president has power
    • Prime Minister: has the power if no president
• Governing

  • Unitary

    Central Government holds authority over local government

  • Federal

    each state has their own autonomy and government

    Ex: U.S. , Malaysia

• Power Separation
  • Executive: Hold Minister Cabinet: enforce laws passed
  • Judiciary: Holds Court: implement laws
  • Legislative
    • Unicameral
    • Bicameral
      • Lower House
      • Upper House: Pass laws