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