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CLEP Political Science
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1. 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
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Transition
Consolidation
Political Factors of Strong States
2. The making of collectively binding decisions
Observational Laws
Contestation
Politics
Primordialism
3. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Political Theory
Civic Engagement
Regime type
political equality
4. 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.
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Political Theory
Disadvantages of Social Movements
5. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Participation
Observational/Evidential
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Party System
6. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Participation
Fascism
State
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
7. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Sovereignty
Majoritarian
Subfields of Political Science
Culture
8. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Totalitarianism
Subfields of Political Science
Transition
Economics
9. 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)
Regime type
Political Violence
Civic Engagement
Significance of Collective action problem
10. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Political Identity
Liberalism
Ideology
Non-democratic regimes
11. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
classic Liberalism
Comparative Government
Why States/Governments
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
12. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Unicameral Legislature
Identity
Threshold
Non-democratic regimes
13. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Politics
Interest Groups
District Magnitude
Significance of Collective action problem
14. Force + Legitimacy
Authority
Party System
State Strength
Utilitarian Justification
15. 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
Identity
Three types of Political Organization
Constitution
Method of Inference
16. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Three types of Political Organization
Constitution
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
District Magnitude
17. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Social Movements
Party System
Majoritarian
Authoritarianism
18. 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
Ideology
Fascism
Socialism
Liberalism
19. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
District Magnitude
Science
Advantages of Social Movements
Observational Laws
20. 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
Unicameral Legislature
Madison's dilemma
Science
Comparative Government
21. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Participation
Politics
Utilitarian Justification
Why States/Governments
22. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
classic Liberalism
Conservatism
Totalitarianism
Regime type
23. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Contestation
classic Liberalism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Why States/Governments
24. 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
Political Violence
Observational/Evidential
Socialism
Authority
25. 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.
Communism
Quantitative
Gender as a Process
Conservatism
26. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Theories
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Consolidation
(Civil) Society
27. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Social Movements: Causes
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Conservatism
28. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Social Movements
Social Movements: Causes
Majoritarian
Gender as a Process
29. 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.
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Civic Engagement
Culture
Bureaucracy
30. A government with a one house legislature.
Collective action problem: Solutions
State Strength
Unicameral Legislature
Politics
31. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Revolution
Patronage
Quantitative
Primordialism
32. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Patronage
Subfields of Political Science
Classic Liberal Argument
Party System
33. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Participation
Democracy
Unicameral Legislature
political equality
34. Think of this as 'gender as cause'. Gender roles change and/or mix of women in politics changes; what is the consequence? Key finding: having more women in public office changes the policy agenda - i.e. - more focus on women's issues
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Qualitative method
political equality
Gender as a Category
35. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Constitution
Three types of Political Organization
Fascism
Nation
36. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Revolution
State Strength
Threshold
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
37. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Ideology
Interest Groups
Fascism
Advantages of Social Movements
38. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Science
Empirical Knowledge
Unicameral Legislature
Consolidation
39. 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
Collective action problem: causes
Threshold
Political Theory
Madison's dilemma
40. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Unicameral Legislature
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Political Theory
41. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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42. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Social Movements
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Collective action problem: Solutions
Identity
43. 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
Transition
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Collective action problem: Solutions
44. 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
Contestation
Social Movements: Causes
Empirical Knowledge
Advantages of Social Movements
45. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Totalitarianism
Consensual
Politics
Political Identity
46. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Liberalism
Observational/Evidential
Utilitarian Justification
Threshold
47. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Political Party
State
Political Violence
48. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Gender as a Process
Collective action problem: Solutions
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Consensual
49. 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
Interest Groups
Comparative Government
Transition
Constructivism
50. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Classic Liberal Argument
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Quantitative
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes