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Chapter 5 Politics 5th edition Heywood
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TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS OF REGIME CLASSIFICATION
TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS OF REGIME CLASSIFICATION
- Government refers to an institutional process through which collective and usually binding decisions are made
- Political system → a network of relationships through which government generates outputs (policies) in response to inputs (demands or support) from the general public
- Government→refers to any mechanism through which ordered rule is maintained, its central features being the ability to make collective decisions and the capacity to enforce them
- Regime→a set of arrangements and procedures for government, outlining the location of authority and the nature of the policy process
- Coup d’état→sudden and forcible seizure of government power through illegal and unconstitutional action
Why classify political regimes?
Why classify political regimes?
- 1. Essential to understanding politics and government
- Government gridlock→paralysis resulting from institutional rivalry within government, or the attempt to respond to conflicting public demands
- 2. Classification to facilitate evaluation
o Descriptive understanding is closely tied to normative
- Ethnocentrism→the application of values and theories drawn from one’s own culture to
other groups and peoples (bias or distortion)
- Utopia→the ideal or perfect society
Islamic regimes
Islamic regimes
o North Africa, Middle East, parts of Asia
o Islamic states→Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan
o Fundamentalist version of Islam is most commonly associated with Iran
o Sharia→Islamic law believed to be based on divine revelation and derived from
Koran, the Hadith and other sources
o Malaysia→Islam compatible with form of political pluralism
o Dictatorship→a form of rule in which absolute power is vested in one individual,
synonymous with autocracy
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