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CLEP Political Science
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1. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Social Movements
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Authority
2. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Qualitative method
Classic Liberal Argument
Political Theory
Authority
3. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Interest Groups
Political Science
Madison's dilemma
Participation
4. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Significance of Collective action problem
classic Liberalism
Party System
International Relations
5. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Political Violence
Empirical Knowledge
Consensual
Terrorism
6. 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
Gender as a Category
Utilitarian Justification
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Three types of Political Organization
7. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Observational/Evidential
Why States/Governments
Transition
8. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Madison's dilemma
Authoritarianism
Economics
Party System
9. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Observational/Evidential
Solidarity
Advantages of Social Movements
Culture
10. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Political Identity
Significance of Collective action problem
Non-democratic regimes
Patronage
11. 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.
(Civil) Society
Nation
Non-democratic regimes
Empirical Knowledge
12. 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
Science
Non-democratic regimes
Constructivism
Three types of Political Organization
13. 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
Authority
Theories
Conservatism
14. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Constructivism
Three types of Political Organization
Collective action problem: causes
Madison's dilemma
15. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Civic Engagement
Economics
Contestation
Constitution
16. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Primordialism
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Sovereignty
Utilitarian Justification
17. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Utilitarian Justification
Unicameral Legislature
Participation
Party System
18. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Authoritarianism
Advantages of Social Movements
Consensual
19. 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
Constitution
State
Totalitarianism
Social Movements
20. Force + Legitimacy
Authority
Culture
Political Violence
Quantitative
21. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Conservatism
Observational Laws
Regime type
22. A government with a one house legislature.
Empirical Knowledge
Regime type
Unicameral Legislature
Comparative Government
23. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Political Party
Patronage
Transition
Fascism
24. 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
Non-democratic regimes
Comparative Government
Method of Inference
25. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Empirical Knowledge
Political Science
Method of Inference
Contestation
26. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Quantitative
Empirical Knowledge
Political Science
Advantages of Social Movements
27. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Unicameral Legislature
Collective action problem: Solutions
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Political Identity
28. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
Patronage
Politics
Regime type
Communism
29. 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
Ideology
Communism
Social Movements: Causes
Political Theory
30. 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
Social Movements
Political Factors of Strong States
District Magnitude
Fascism
31. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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32. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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33. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
International Relations
Party System
Threshold
Culture
34. 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
Political Theory
Social Movements: Causes
Consolidation
political equality
35. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Political Identity
State
Subfields of Political Science
Three types of Political Organization
36. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Qualitative method
Majoritarian
Party System
37. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Theories
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Majoritarian
Nation
38. 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'
Communism
Classic Liberal Argument
Revolution
Ideology
39. 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
Gender as a Category
Non-democratic regimes
Conservatism
Utilitarian Justification
40. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Social Movements: Causes
Fascism
Patronage
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
41. 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
Communism
Conservatism
Patronage
42. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Transition
Three types of Political Organization
Democracy
Gender as a Process
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
Patronage
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Political Party
Criticisms of Rational Choice
44. 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.
Culture
Constitution
Collective action problem: Solutions
Gender as a Process
45. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Observational/Evidential
State Strength
46. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Political Identity
Social Movements
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Civic Engagement
47. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Why States/Governments
Political Theory
Constitution
Unicameral Legislature
48. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Interest Groups
Identity
Three types of Political Organization
Comparative Government
49. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Gender as a Category
(Civil) Society
Political Theory
Political Factors of Strong States
50. 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
Transition
Constitution
Collective action problem: causes
Social Movements