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CLEP Political Science
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1. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Regime type
Conservatism
Contestation
Participation
2. Identities are malleable - and anything can become politicized. Struggles to explain fundamental patterns in political identity or their grasp on our souls. Can't really explain which identities become politicized either
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Sovereignty
Contestation
Constructivism
3. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Utilitarian Justification
Observational Laws
Nation
Solidarity
4. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Conservatism
Communism
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Party System
5. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Liberalism
Science
Constructivism
Ideology
6. 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.
Ideology
Quantitative
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
7. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Gender as a Process
Socialism
State Strength
8. 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?
Political Factors of Strong States
Fascism
Sovereignty
Political Party
9. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Nation
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Conservatism
Democracy
10. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Observational Laws
Majoritarian
Culture
Solidarity
11. Public vs. private goods - Non-exclusivity. The owner can't deny access - Inexhaustability. The good is never used up - Jointness of supply. Its existence depends on our combined contribution; truly 'collective' - Free riding. We generally fail to co
Interest Groups
Collective action problem: causes
Ideology
Identity
12. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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13. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Sovereignty
Contestation
Liberalism
Democracy
14. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
International Relations
Political Factors of Strong States
Collective action problem: causes
Qualitative method
15. 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
Political Party
political equality
Identity
Economics
16. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Contestation
State
Regime type
Observational/Evidential
17. 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
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Utilitarian Justification
Sovereignty
Social Movements
18. A systematic study of the structures of two or more political systems (such as those of Britain and the People's Republic of China) to achieve an understanding of how different societies manage the realities of governing. Also considered are politica
Comparative Government
Why States/Governments
Contestation
Party System
19. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
State Strength
Interest Groups
International Relations
Empirical Knowledge
20. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Nation
Observational/Evidential
21. Utility: self-interest - but what constitutes self-interest? Material self-interest? Economics - Politics. Example: vote maximization - The gospel Failures of rationality - Really incomplete information & satisfaction - Intransitivity and other cogni
District Magnitude
Why States/Governments
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Constitution
22. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Three types of Political Organization
Observational/Evidential
International Relations
Quantitative
23. 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
Socialism
Authoritarianism
Terrorism
Revolution
24. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Utilitarian Justification
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Identity
Consensual
25. 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
Threshold
Participation
Authority
26. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Advantages of Social Movements
Political Violence
Sovereignty
Authority
27. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Culture
Bureaucracy
Gender as a Category
Communism
28. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Bureaucracy
Primordialism
Subfields of Political Science
Empirical Knowledge
29. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Majoritarian
Political Party
political equality
Democracy
30. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
(Civil) Society
Political Party
Theories
Unicameral Legislature
31. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Nation
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
political equality
32. Shared sets of meanings
Threshold
Politics
Culture
political equality
33. 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.
Gender as a Process
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Political Violence
Consensual
34. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Observational Laws
Theories
Regime type
Threshold
35. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Majoritarian
Subfields of Political Science
Why States/Governments
36. Ideology An ideology that seeks the active reshaping of minds of individuals and believes this can/must be done by force - Coercive mobilization - No social or political pluralism
Party System
Political Science
Contestation
Totalitarianism
37. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Non-democratic regimes
Communism
Authority
Consolidation
38. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')
Threshold
Qualitative method
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Regime type
39. Compiling a body of data based on direct observation that can be utilized both to explain what has been observed and to form valid generalizations.
Unicameral Legislature
Empirical Knowledge
Participation
Authority
40. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Sovereignty
(Civil) Society
Classic Liberal Argument
Political Science
41. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Why States/Governments
Gender as a Category
Political Party
Political Science
42. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Civic Engagement
Consolidation
Solidarity
Revolution
43. 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
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Theories
Political Violence
Social Movements: Causes
44. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Political Violence
Classic Liberal Argument
Consolidation
Solidarity
45. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Empirical Knowledge
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Political Science
classic Liberalism
46. 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)
Subfields of Political Science
Collective action problem: Solutions
Significance of Collective action problem
Authoritarianism
47. A basic plan that outlines the structure and functions of the national government. Clearly rooted in Western political thought - it sets limits on government and protects both property and individual rights.
Culture
Constitution
Theories
Social Movements
48. The making of collectively binding decisions
Politics
Qualitative method
Why States/Governments
Gender as a Process
49. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Three types of Political Organization
Nation
Economics
Non-democratic regimes
50. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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