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CLEP Political Science

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1. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal






2. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)






3. Basically - density and quality of civil society






4. 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






5. 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






6. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes






7. 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.






8. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district






9. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services






10. 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






11. 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'






12. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers






13. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration






14. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary






15. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable






16. The making of collectively binding decisions






17. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics






18. 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






19. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements






20. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)






21. A government with a one house legislature.






22. Individual rationality does not always lead to collective rationality - Walking on the grass - Policy implementation is problematic - Voting; protests; interest groups; etc. are underprovided (Olson's point)






23. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...






24. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.






25. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals






26. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes






27. The identities that can become political are those formed very early in life or perhaps vaguely racial/genetic. Struggles to explain (rapid) cultural change - or which identities become politicized






28. 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






29. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.






30. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial






31. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.






32. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')






33. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling






34. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')






35. 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.






36. monopoly over the legitimate use of force






37. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets






38. Concentration vs. dispersal of power

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39. 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






40. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations






41. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability






42. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.






43. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.






44. 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?






45. 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.






46. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy






47. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.






48. Force + Legitimacy






49. 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






50. 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






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