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CLEP Political Science
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1. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Bureaucracy
Comparative Government
Observational Laws
2. A civil war (...) in which one party is the state - the insurgents win - the insurgents have a lot of popular support - and the insurgents implement 'wholesale political change'
Revolution
Communism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Ideology
3. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Political Violence
Theories
political equality
4. A government with a one house legislature.
Political Theory
Unicameral Legislature
Consolidation
Patronage
5. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Subfields of Political Science
Terrorism
Political Party
Communism
6. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Political Factors of Strong States
classic Liberalism
Liberalism
7. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Political Party
Interest Groups
Economics
Authoritarianism
8. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Transition
Collective action problem: Solutions
Civic Engagement
District Magnitude
9. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
political equality
State Strength
Qualitative method
Culture
10. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Constitution
Interest Groups
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Collective action problem: causes
11. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Three types of Political Organization
Bureaucracy
Advantages of Social Movements
political equality
12. Historical origins. A response to the old feudal order and the rise of modern capitalism - 'The highest good of society [is] the ability of the members of that society to develop their individual capacities to the fullest extent' (p. 26) One of the 3
Terrorism
political equality
Liberalism
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
13. Historical origins. Failure of liberalism to address shortcomings of capitalist industrialization; Marx - Central assumption: All persons are of equal value - but they cannot develop themselves alone
Constructivism
Socialism
Fascism
Interest Groups
14. Force + Legitimacy
Authority
Totalitarianism
Consensual
Participation
15. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Political Identity
District Magnitude
Science
Nation
16. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Collective action problem: Solutions
Why States/Governments
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
17. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Political Party
Contestation
State Strength
Consensual
18. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Political Theory
Authority
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Socialism
19. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Majoritarian
State Strength
Interest Groups
Political Theory
20. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
Communism
Conservatism
Political Party
Economics
21. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Bureaucracy
Party System
Primordialism
22. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Majoritarian
Ideology
political equality
Why States/Governments
23. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Political Party
Classic Liberal Argument
Theories
Unicameral Legislature
24. Shorter-lived - Slightly less repressive - Ideology not so clear - In favor of capitalism - though with state involvement - Based more on Social Darwinism/racism/nationlsm - Conservatism run amok?
Fascism
Contestation
Majoritarian
Democracy
25. Historical origins. A reaction to liberalism - Central assumption: 'The highest good of society [is] the maintenance of ordered community and of common values' (p. 28) One of the 3 big idealogies
Interest Groups
Gender as a Process
Subfields of Political Science
Conservatism
26. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Observational Laws
Nation
Political Violence
27. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Primordialism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Constitution
Fascism
28. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Quantitative
Identity
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Three types of Political Organization
29. The making of collectively binding decisions
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Politics
Liberalism
Threshold
30. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Political Factors of Strong States
State Strength
Terrorism
Party System
31. Shared sets of meanings
Majoritarian
Sovereignty
Political Party
Culture
32. You see a puzzle - You come up with a potential explanation (a 'theory') - You test it with evidence (data drawn from the 5 senses) - You share the results with others and get their feedback - Repeat steps 2 through 4 until you publish
Consolidation
Madison's dilemma
Method of Inference
Civic Engagement
33. Process or moment of changing from one regime type to another Ex: Arab Springs (Causes: cultural or economice - or military culture) - (int'l factors: U.S. foreign policy - Soviet foreign policy - Changes to Catholic doctrine - EU accession - Globali
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Transition
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
State Strength
34. A historical exploration of the major contributions to political thought from the ancient Greeks to the contemporary theorists. It also involves the philosophical and speculative consideration of the political world.
Social Movements
Totalitarianism
Political Theory
Method of Inference
35. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Communism
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Solidarity
Constructivism
36. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Gender as a Category
Regime type
International Relations
Economics
37. The mathematical formula used to allocate the seats according to the vote - Plurality or 'first-past-the-post' - various PR formulas - such as D'Hondt - largest remainders - St. Lague - etc.
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Political Identity
Collective action problem: Solutions
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
38. In social movements - rational choice and culture come together - Culture: the sense of a righteous - popular will that has been subverted ('framing'/'grievance') - Motivates collective action - But also determines the choice of organization and tact
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Observational Laws
Gender as a Process
Social Movements: Causes
39. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Liberalism
Observational/Evidential
Political Identity
Subfields of Political Science
40. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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41. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Quantitative
classic Liberalism
Observational Laws
Political Violence
42. Situation of stability - no party has incentive and ability to undermine the regime (Causes: cultural or economice - or military culture) - (Int'l Factors: U.S. foreign policy - Soviet foreign policy - Changes to Catholic doctrine - EU accession - G
Interest Groups
Constructivism
Transition
Consolidation
43. Tactics An organization that seeks to influence government through 'contentious' or 'disruptive' politics - Currency/instrument: show of force - numbers - brinkmanship - Organization A (non-hierarchical) network of organizations and individuals worki
Empirical Knowledge
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Consolidation
Social Movements
44. A subset of culture - based on our ability to attach labels to ourselves and others - or to define ourselves in terms of the groups we belong to - Some political examples: Partisan identity - Class identity - Ethnic identity - National identity
Identity
Communism
Regime type
political equality
45. Think of this as gender as outcome; what factors - esp. political ones - lead to changes in gender roles? Key finding: politics does matter - especially who has an organized voice. Formal rules - number/identity of parties - etc.
Civic Engagement
Gender as a Process
Three types of Political Organization
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
46. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Political Science
Social Movements
political equality
Nation
47. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Nation
political equality
Constitution
Social Movements: Causes
48. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
District Magnitude
State
Advantages of Social Movements
Ideology
49. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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50. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Party System
Authority
Communism
(Civil) Society