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POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT. WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?. THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT. Public institutions: the government, governmental agencies, and government-owned businesses. THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT. Public institutions: the government, governmental agencies, and government-owned businesses
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POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT • Public institutions: the government, governmental agencies, and government-owned businesses
THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT • Public institutions: the government, governmental agencies, and government-owned businesses • Nonpublic institutions: special interest groups, such as environmentalists
INTERNATIONAL ACTORS • NATION-STATES • CORPORATIONS • INT’L GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS • INT’L NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS • INDIVIDUALS
POLITICAL FACTORS • POLITICAL SYSTEMS • LAWS • INTEREST GROUPS • POLITICAL RISK • COSTS
POLITICAL SYSTEM • Integrates the parts of society into a viable functioning unit
BASIC POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES • An ideology is the systematic and integrated body of constructs, theories, and aims that constitutes a sociopolitical program • Pluralistic societies are those in which a variety of ideologies coexist • A Political Spectrum • The two extremes on the political spectrum are democracy and totalitarianism