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CLEP Political Science
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1. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Sovereignty
International Relations
Collective action problem: Solutions
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
2. 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
Consolidation
Science
Madison's dilemma
Socialism
3. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Interest Groups
Observational Laws
Quantitative
Threshold
4. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Liberalism
Civic Engagement
State
Social Movements: Causes
5. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Constitution
Significance of Collective action problem
Advantages of Social Movements
Political Science
6. 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
Theories
Collective action problem: causes
Transition
7. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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8. Shared sets of meanings
Culture
Participation
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Political Factors of Strong States
9. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Political Party
Gender as a Category
Authority
Constitution
10. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Constitution
Nation
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Theories
11. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Participation
District Magnitude
Fascism
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
12. 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.
Political Theory
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Culture
Unicameral Legislature
13. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Why States/Governments
Collective action problem: causes
Madison's dilemma
Economics
14. 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
Transition
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
District Magnitude
Solidarity
15. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Ideology
Authoritarianism
Threshold
Majoritarian
16. Force + Legitimacy
Culture
Authority
Political Violence
Gender as a Process
17. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Non-democratic regimes
Social Movements: Causes
political equality
District Magnitude
18. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Social Movements
Terrorism
Sovereignty
Criticisms of Rational Choice
19. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Liberalism
Economics
Collective action problem: Solutions
Terrorism
20. 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
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Terrorism
Social Movements: Causes
Constructivism
21. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Unicameral Legislature
Observational Laws
Constructivism
Science
22. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
Political Science
International Relations
(Civil) Society
Science
23. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Interest Groups
political equality
Quantitative
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
24. 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
Authority
Social Movements: Causes
Empirical Knowledge
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
25. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Advantages of Social Movements
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Political Party
Party System
26. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Utilitarian Justification
Advantages of Social Movements
Culture
Revolution
27. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Constructivism
Terrorism
Consensual
28. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals
(Civil) Society
Political Violence
Authority
Socialism
29. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Constitution
political equality
Constitution
Gender as a Process
30. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Contestation
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Observational/Evidential
Communism
31. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
(Civil) Society
Political Factors of Strong States
Method of Inference
32. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Political Party
Bureaucracy
Party System
Ideology
33. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Participation
Non-democratic regimes
District Magnitude
Collective action problem: causes
34. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Authoritarianism
Democracy
Interest Groups
Classic Liberal Argument
35. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Participation
Quantitative
Civic Engagement
Constitution
36. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Consensual
Political Violence
Science
Culture
37. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Communism
Regime type
Advantages of Social Movements
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
38. 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
Liberalism
Science
Transition
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
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
Culture
political equality
Identity
40. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Contestation
Patronage
(Civil) Society
Solidarity
41. 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
Observational Laws
Economics
Gender as a Category
Utilitarian Justification
42. 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
Primordialism
Method of Inference
political equality
Collective action problem: Solutions
43. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Identity
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Patronage
44. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Constitution
Significance of Collective action problem
Transition
Subfields of Political Science
45. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Nation
Observational Laws
Identity
Party System
46. 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
Quantitative
Economics
Primordialism
Theories
47. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Patronage
Political Science
Classic Liberal Argument
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
48. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Conservatism
Gender as a Category
Observational/Evidential
49. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Economics
Democracy
Politics
Observational/Evidential
50. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Majoritarian
Liberalism
Threshold
Empirical Knowledge