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CLEP Political Science
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1. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Method of Inference
Bureaucracy
Authority
Three types of Political Organization
2. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Regime type
Contestation
political equality
Gender as a Category
3. 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
Political Identity
Transition
Madison's dilemma
Contestation
4. 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.
Quantitative
Constitution
Party System
Political Identity
5. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Theories
Significance of Collective action problem
Political Identity
Regime type
6. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
State
Method of Inference
(Civil) Society
Political Science
7. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Advantages of Social Movements
Non-democratic regimes
Social Movements
Quantitative
8. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Consensual
Observational Laws
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Non-democratic regimes
9. A government with a one house legislature.
Politics
Unicameral Legislature
Revolution
Terrorism
10. 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
Authority
Comparative Government
Politics
Political Science
11. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Interest Groups
political equality
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Political Party
12. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Authoritarianism
Terrorism
Liberalism
classic Liberalism
13. 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?
Qualitative method
Method of Inference
Ideology
Fascism
14. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Constructivism
political equality
Non-democratic regimes
Empirical Knowledge
15. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Observational/Evidential
Threshold
Interest Groups
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
16. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Threshold
Fascism
Primordialism
Participation
17. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Empirical Knowledge
Revolution
Socialism
District Magnitude
18. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Classic Liberal Argument
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Political Factors of Strong States
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
19. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Sovereignty
Terrorism
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
State Strength
20. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Majoritarian
Solidarity
Nation
Revolution
21. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Three types of Political Organization
District Magnitude
Civic Engagement
Transition
22. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Socialism
Classic Liberal Argument
State Strength
Liberalism
23. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
classic Liberalism
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Qualitative method
Subfields of Political Science
24. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Collective action problem: causes
Patronage
Empirical Knowledge
25. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
classic Liberalism
Liberalism
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Patronage
26. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Communism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Socialism
Utilitarian Justification
27. 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
Fascism
Civic Engagement
Social Movements
Conservatism
28. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Communism
Significance of Collective action problem
Transition
Political Factors of Strong States
29. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Disadvantages of Social Movements
State Strength
International Relations
Political Theory
30. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Sovereignty
Constitution
Classic Liberal Argument
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
31. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Quantitative
Advantages of Social Movements
Collective action problem: causes
Party System
32. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
Gender as a Process
Threshold
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Communism
33. 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.
Political Factors of Strong States
Liberalism
Non-democratic regimes
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
34. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Why States/Governments
Three types of Political Organization
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Observational Laws
35. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Political Science
Theories
Conservatism
Classic Liberal Argument
36. 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
Social Movements: Causes
Culture
Social Movements
Why States/Governments
37. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Culture
Nation
Contestation
Primordialism
38. 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
Patronage
Method of Inference
Liberalism
Transition
39. 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.
Economics
Gender as a Process
District Magnitude
Classic Liberal Argument
40. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Authority
Transition
Party System
41. Force + Legitimacy
Consolidation
Authority
Classic Liberal Argument
Collective action problem: Solutions
42. 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.
Authoritarianism
Observational Laws
Terrorism
Empirical Knowledge
43. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Consolidation
Identity
Solidarity
44. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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45. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Science
Democracy
Economics
Authority
46. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Comparative Government
District Magnitude
Subfields of Political Science
Threshold
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
Constructivism
Social Movements
Nation
Totalitarianism
48. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Constitution
Politics
Advantages of Social Movements
Political Party
49. 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
Regime type
Authoritarianism
Identity
Consensual
50. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Democracy
Qualitative method
Party System
Ideology