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WHAT IS GOVERNMENT? WHAT ARE POLITICS?  What’s the difference? AN INSTITUTION THROUGH WHICH A SOCIETY… MAKES AND… ENFORCES PUBLIC POLICIES “POLY” – MANY “TICKS” – Blood sucking parasites HAH, HAH – JUST KIDDING ? POLITICS “Polites” (Greek) – Citizen “the art of governing” …to express what the government should or should not do.” I.E. - POWER! POLITICAL BEHAVIOR Identifying YOUR political views - Political Spectrum (Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, Statist) Why do certain groups behave a certain way? Political Behavior Tendencies Why do we have political parties? The Functions of Political Parties How do Americans behave politically? The 2 Party System Minor Parties GOVERNMENT IS AN INSTITUTION THROUGH WHICH A SOCIETY MAKES AND ENFORCES PUBLIC POLICIES PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT What makes governments RECOGNIZED as “nations?” How is government ORGANIZED? Federal, Unitary, Confederate How is POWER DISTRIBUTED? Presidential, Parliamentary Who can PARTICIPATE? Democracy (Direct/Representative), Dictatorship NATION – STATES? What do the following have in common? What are their differences? NORTH KOREA PENNSYLVANIA AL QAEDA PALESTINE ISRAEL NATION - STATES HAVE 4 CHARACTERISTICS POPULATION DEFINED TERRITORY GOVERNMENT SOVEREIGNTY How has the perspective of nation states changed in the 21st Century?