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CLEP Political Science
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1. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Identity
Participation
Terrorism
Culture
2. 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
Criticisms of Rational Choice
(Civil) Society
Primordialism
Qualitative method
3. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Empirical Knowledge
Contestation
Classic Liberal Argument
Non-democratic regimes
4. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Ideology
Observational Laws
Sovereignty
State Strength
5. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Totalitarianism
Sovereignty
Qualitative method
Contestation
6. 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
Significance of Collective action problem
Liberalism
State Strength
Science
7. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Constitution
Three types of Political Organization
Consensual
District Magnitude
8. 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
State Strength
Comparative Government
District Magnitude
Social Movements
9. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Authority
Comparative Government
Political Identity
10. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Threshold
Culture
Unicameral Legislature
Bureaucracy
11. 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
Observational Laws
Bureaucracy
Transition
political equality
12. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Non-democratic regimes
Three types of Political Organization
Empirical Knowledge
Political Party
13. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
International Relations
Bureaucracy
Civic Engagement
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
14. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Culture
Party System
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Collective action problem: Solutions
15. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Significance of Collective action problem
Interest Groups
Non-democratic regimes
Authoritarianism
16. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Social Movements
Ideology
classic Liberalism
Theories
17. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Communism
(Civil) Society
Regime type
Transition
18. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Fascism
District Magnitude
Bureaucracy
Comparative Government
19. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Interest Groups
Nation
Economics
Qualitative method
20. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Advantages of Social Movements
Liberalism
Science
Consensual
21. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Advantages of Social Movements
Party System
Economics
Liberalism
22. Force + Legitimacy
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Participation
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Authority
23. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Threshold
District Magnitude
Science
Culture
24. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Interest Groups
Theories
Liberalism
Political Violence
25. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Utilitarian Justification
Authoritarianism
Socialism
Bureaucracy
26. 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.
Conservatism
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Criticisms of Rational Choice
27. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Advantages of Social Movements
Politics
Ideology
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
28. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Primordialism
Participation
(Civil) Society
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
29. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
District Magnitude
Communism
Constitution
Significance of Collective action problem
30. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Nation
Collective action problem: Solutions
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Classic Liberal Argument
31. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Three types of Political Organization
Theories
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
32. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Ideology
Political Factors of Strong States
Observational/Evidential
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
33. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Authority
classic Liberalism
Terrorism
Observational Laws
34. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Political Theory
Constitution
Authority
Solidarity
35. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Authority
Transition
Science
(Civil) Society
36. A government with a one house legislature.
Gender as a Process
Political Theory
Party System
Unicameral Legislature
37. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Political Science
Communism
Bureaucracy
Party System
38. 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
Interest Groups
Socialism
Political Theory
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
39. 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
Significance of Collective action problem
Collective action problem: causes
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Conservatism
40. 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.
Empirical Knowledge
Advantages of Social Movements
Patronage
Classic Liberal Argument
41. 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
classic Liberalism
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Social Movements: Causes
(Civil) Society
42. 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.
Transition
Terrorism
Constitution
Political Theory
43. 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
Why States/Governments
Significance of Collective action problem
Communism
44. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Culture
Madison's dilemma
Constitution
State
45. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Utilitarian Justification
Method of Inference
Communism
Social Movements: Causes
46. 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
Democracy
Communism
International Relations
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
International Relations
Significance of Collective action problem
Revolution
Totalitarianism
48. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Subfields of Political Science
classic Liberalism
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Authority
49. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Madison's dilemma
Quantitative
Totalitarianism
Regime type
50. 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
Threshold
Subfields of Political Science
Consolidation
Social Movements