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CLEP Political Science

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1. 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






2. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy






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






4. 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






5. 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?






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






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






8. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism






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






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






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






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






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






14. Shared sets of meanings






15. 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






16. 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'






17. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program






18. 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






19. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract






20. 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






21. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization






22. 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






23. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism






24. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations






25. 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






26. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions






27. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.






28. A government with a one house legislature.






29. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally






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






31. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial






32. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say






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






34. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors






35. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements






36. Concentration vs. dispersal of power

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37. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.






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






39. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')






40. The making of collectively binding decisions






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






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






43. monopoly over the legitimate use of force






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?






48. Force + Legitimacy






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






50. 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