1. POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

2. THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
Public institutions: the government, governmental agencies, and government-owned businesses

3. THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
Public institutions: the government, governmental agencies, and government-owned businesses
Nonpublic institutions: special interest groups, such as environmentalists

4. INTERNATIONAL ACTORS NATION-STATES CORPORATIONS
INT’L GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
INT’L NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
INDIVIDUALS

5. POLITICAL FACTORS POLITICAL SYSTEMS LAWS INTEREST GROUPS
POLITICAL RISK
COSTS

6. POLITICAL SYSTEM
Integrates the parts of society into a viable functioning unit

7. 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