Ch 15 Short Answer

Question 1

Politics

Answer 1

The study of community governance

Question 2

Progressivism

Answer 2

Belief in human progress

Question 3

Statism

Answer 3

Political system in which highly centralized government holds the concentration of economic controls and planning

Question 4

Political pessimism

Answer 4

General distrust for any political systems ability to alleviate social problems

Question 5

Political liberalism

Answer 5

System of governed based upon the belief that individual and social ills are best solved through direct governed intervention

Question 6

Autarchy

Answer 6

The rule of oneself , self government

Question 7

Islamic theocracy

Answer 7

A state ruled by Islam and Islamic religious leaders

Question 8

Subsidiarity

Answer 8

Decisions are best handled at the organizational or societal level closest to the issues or persons affected