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CLEP Political Science
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1. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Contestation
Collective action problem: causes
Political Identity
2. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Threshold
Advantages of Social Movements
Observational/Evidential
Nation
3. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Constitution
Subfields of Political Science
Bureaucracy
Participation
4. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Political Violence
(Civil) Society
Political Factors of Strong States
Economics
5. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Participation
Political Violence
Consensual
State Strength
6. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Subfields of Political Science
District Magnitude
Political Science
Liberalism
7. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Observational/Evidential
(Civil) Society
Gender as a Process
Unicameral Legislature
8. A subset of culture - based on our ability to attach labels to ourselves and others - or to define ourselves in terms of the groups we belong to - Some political examples: Partisan identity - Class identity - Ethnic identity - National identity
Consensual
Constitution
Utilitarian Justification
Identity
9. 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
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Communism
Collective action problem: causes
Social Movements
10. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Political Identity
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Ideology
Collective action problem: Solutions
11. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Madison's dilemma
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Collective action problem: Solutions
Criticisms of Rational Choice
12. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Terrorism
Social Movements: Causes
Solidarity
Party System
13. 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
Socialism
Terrorism
Non-democratic regimes
Transition
14. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
political equality
Nation
Theories
Authoritarianism
15. 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'
Non-democratic regimes
Communism
Majoritarian
Revolution
16. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
State
Culture
Nation
Economics
17. 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
Liberalism
Majoritarian
Constructivism
Method of Inference
18. 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
Why States/Governments
Method of Inference
Observational Laws
Primordialism
19. 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.
Patronage
Method of Inference
Gender as a Process
Observational/Evidential
20. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Classic Liberal Argument
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
State Strength
Social Movements: Causes
21. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
political equality
Advantages of Social Movements
Majoritarian
Method of Inference
22. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Observational/Evidential
Gender as a Process
Constitution
23. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Ideology
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Regime type
24. Efficiency vs. representativeness
25. 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
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Observational/Evidential
Utilitarian Justification
Comparative Government
26. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Empirical Knowledge
Advantages of Social Movements
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
27. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Why States/Governments
Terrorism
Majoritarian
Participation
28. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Democracy
Observational Laws
State Strength
classic Liberalism
29. Force + Legitimacy
Authority
Civic Engagement
Utilitarian Justification
Consensual
30. A government with a one house legislature.
Unicameral Legislature
Political Party
Collective action problem: causes
Political Factors of Strong States
31. 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
Science
Observational/Evidential
Qualitative method
Conservatism
32. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
Conservatism
Subfields of Political Science
International Relations
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
33. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
34. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Economics
Social Movements: Causes
Quantitative
35. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Comparative Government
International Relations
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Political Science
36. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Why States/Governments
Science
Nation
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
37. The making of collectively binding decisions
Politics
Civic Engagement
Gender as a Process
Political Science
38. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Quantitative
political equality
Democracy
Collective action problem: Solutions
39. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Solidarity
Nation
State Strength
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
40. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
political equality
Ideology
State Strength
41. 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
Subfields of Political Science
Transition
Primordialism
political equality
42. Shared sets of meanings
Constitution
Advantages of Social Movements
Ideology
Culture
43. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
District Magnitude
Nation
Constitution
Social Movements: Causes
44. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Democracy
Collective action problem: Solutions
State Strength
Political Party
45. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
political equality
Madison's dilemma
Constitution
Disadvantages of Social Movements
46. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Social Movements
Terrorism
Utilitarian Justification
Interest Groups
47. 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
Regime type
Collective action problem: causes
Party System
Subfields of Political Science
48. 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?
Observational Laws
Fascism
Political Theory
Authority
49. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Method of Inference
State Strength
Economics
Majoritarian
50. 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
Sovereignty
Revolution
(Civil) Society
Gender as a Category