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CLEP Political Science
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1. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Empirical Knowledge
Advantages of Social Movements
classic Liberalism
Party System
2. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Authority
District Magnitude
Fascism
Ideology
3. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
Political Identity
Communism
Revolution
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
4. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Why States/Governments
Classic Liberal Argument
Transition
Totalitarianism
5. 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
classic Liberalism
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Transition
Collective action problem: causes
6. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Ideology
Constitution
Political Science
Authority
7. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Economics
(Civil) Society
Science
Authoritarianism
8. Efficiency vs. representativeness
9. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Participation
Terrorism
Party System
Qualitative method
10. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Sovereignty
Bureaucracy
Communism
Terrorism
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.
Advantages of Social Movements
Quantitative
Science
Empirical Knowledge
12. 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
State
Political Party
Three types of Political Organization
Conservatism
13. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
classic Liberalism
Constitution
Political Party
Participation
14. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
Political Violence
International Relations
Economics
Authoritarianism
15. 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
Contestation
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Gender as a Category
Bureaucracy
16. 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 Identity
Interest Groups
Political Party
17. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Democracy
Method of Inference
political equality
Ideology
18. 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
Political Factors of Strong States
Patronage
Socialism
19. 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
Constructivism
Theories
Political Party
Why States/Governments
20. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')
Qualitative method
Revolution
State Strength
Why States/Governments
21. 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
Method of Inference
Constructivism
Constitution
State Strength
22. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Collective action problem: Solutions
Political Identity
Empirical Knowledge
Interest Groups
23. 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.
Conservatism
Gender as a Process
Authoritarianism
Ideology
24. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Terrorism
Political Violence
Revolution
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
25. 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.
Constitution
Political Theory
Authoritarianism
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
26. 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
Primordialism
Majoritarian
Authoritarianism
Nation
27. 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.
political equality
Gender as a Category
Non-democratic regimes
Constitution
28. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Constitution
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Utilitarian Justification
29. 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)
Civic Engagement
Sovereignty
Authority
Significance of Collective action problem
30. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Majoritarian
Constitution
Ideology
Culture
31. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Politics
Interest Groups
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Observational Laws
32. The making of collectively binding decisions
Unicameral Legislature
Empirical Knowledge
Political Science
Politics
33. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Empirical Knowledge
Constitution
Comparative Government
Democracy
34. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Advantages of Social Movements
Classic Liberal Argument
Consensual
Identity
35. 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'
Regime type
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Unicameral Legislature
Revolution
36. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
State Strength
Non-democratic regimes
Democracy
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
37. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Collective action problem: Solutions
Three types of Political Organization
Utilitarian Justification
Sovereignty
38. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Ideology
Communism
Empirical Knowledge
Constitution
39. Shared sets of meanings
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Patronage
Culture
40. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Quantitative
Party System
Collective action problem: Solutions
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
41. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
classic Liberalism
Majoritarian
District Magnitude
Consolidation
42. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Solidarity
Economics
Political Science
Participation
43. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
classic Liberalism
Political Factors of Strong States
Primordialism
Unicameral Legislature
44. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Collective action problem: Solutions
Political Violence
Subfields of Political Science
Authoritarianism
45. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Patronage
Conservatism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Why States/Governments
46. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Qualitative method
Social Movements: Causes
Sovereignty
State Strength
47. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Authoritarianism
Party System
Empirical Knowledge
Economics
48. 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
Political Violence
(Civil) Society
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Totalitarianism
49. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Quantitative
political equality
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
International Relations
50. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Gender as a Process
Liberalism
Democracy
Solidarity