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CLEP Political Science
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1. 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.
Constitution
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Comparative Government
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
2. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Science
Utilitarian Justification
Regime type
Social Movements
3. 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
Consolidation
Identity
Majoritarian
Interest Groups
4. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Authority
Constitution
Bureaucracy
political equality
5. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Authority
Totalitarianism
Three types of Political Organization
Democracy
6. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Comparative Government
Regime type
Terrorism
Constructivism
7. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Constitution
(Civil) Society
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
8. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Threshold
political equality
Why States/Governments
Culture
9. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Authoritarianism
Interest Groups
Fascism
Political Party
10. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
11. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Political Factors of Strong States
Gender as a Process
Majoritarian
Party System
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
Party System
Primordialism
Liberalism
International Relations
13. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')
Political Identity
Science
Qualitative method
Communism
14. 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.
Comparative Government
political equality
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Conservatism
15. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Why States/Governments
Political Identity
Ideology
Authoritarianism
16. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Party System
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Liberalism
Majoritarian
17. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Authoritarianism
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Ideology
18. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals
Interest Groups
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Culture
Political Violence
19. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Politics
International Relations
Constitution
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
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
Culture
Three types of Political Organization
Collective action problem: causes
Authoritarianism
21. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Political Violence
Collective action problem: Solutions
International Relations
22. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Conservatism
Classic Liberal Argument
Qualitative method
Transition
23. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Bureaucracy
Conservatism
Constitution
Non-democratic regimes
24. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Observational Laws
Non-democratic regimes
Transition
Qualitative method
25. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Majoritarian
Political Science
Method of Inference
Ideology
26. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Advantages of Social Movements
Politics
Contestation
Participation
27. Shared sets of meanings
Political Science
Primordialism
Culture
Political Theory
28. 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
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Nation
Constructivism
Advantages of Social Movements
29. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Democracy
Ideology
Revolution
Contestation
30. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Observational Laws
Liberalism
District Magnitude
Economics
31. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Ideology
Transition
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
32. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Constructivism
Terrorism
Socialism
Constitution
33. 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
Communism
Political Identity
Majoritarian
Conservatism
34. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Solidarity
Fascism
Regime type
State
35. 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.
Participation
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Empirical Knowledge
Interest Groups
36. 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
political equality
Collective action problem: Solutions
Three types of Political Organization
37. 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
Regime type
Contestation
Majoritarian
38. 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.
State Strength
Socialism
Political Theory
Method of Inference
39. 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
State
Social Movements
Democracy
40. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Terrorism
Gender as a Category
State Strength
Political Party
41. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Non-democratic regimes
Culture
Regime type
Civic Engagement
42. 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
Democracy
(Civil) Society
Significance of Collective action problem
43. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Quantitative
Theories
Authority
Subfields of Political Science
44. Force + Legitimacy
Qualitative method
Authority
Democracy
State
45. 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
District Magnitude
Contestation
Terrorism
Socialism
46. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Threshold
Political Theory
Theories
Ideology
47. 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
Totalitarianism
classic Liberalism
Political Theory
Constitution
48. 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)
Significance of Collective action problem
Qualitative method
Political Party
Disadvantages of Social Movements
49. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Science
Collective action problem: Solutions
Non-democratic regimes
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
50. 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
Authoritarianism
Qualitative method
Political Theory
Social Movements