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CLEP Political Science
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1. Efficiency vs. representativeness
2. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Quantitative
Political Identity
Subfields of Political Science
Solidarity
3. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Terrorism
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Three types of Political Organization
4. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Liberalism
Political Identity
Classic Liberal Argument
State
5. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Political Science
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Bureaucracy
(Civil) Society
6. 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
Fascism
Why States/Governments
Social Movements: Causes
State
7. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Civic Engagement
State
Why States/Governments
Madison's dilemma
8. 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
Unicameral Legislature
Transition
Totalitarianism
Political Identity
9. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Patronage
Science
Nation
Constitution
10. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
11. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Terrorism
Ideology
Totalitarianism
Threshold
12. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Culture
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
International Relations
Democracy
13. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Constitution
classic Liberalism
Theories
Terrorism
14. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals
Political Violence
Social Movements
Political Party
Constitution
15. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Interest Groups
Totalitarianism
Civic Engagement
Contestation
16. 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
Identity
Threshold
Constructivism
Patronage
17. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Collective action problem: causes
Constitution
Authority
18. Force + Legitimacy
Utilitarian Justification
Advantages of Social Movements
Authority
Transition
19. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Authoritarianism
Revolution
Gender as a Category
Political Party
20. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Politics
Significance of Collective action problem
Nation
21. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Civic Engagement
Collective action problem: Solutions
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Conservatism
22. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
District Magnitude
classic Liberalism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Social Movements
23. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Non-democratic regimes
Totalitarianism
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Socialism
24. 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'
Revolution
Gender as a Category
Interest Groups
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
25. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Transition
Empirical Knowledge
Observational Laws
26. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Comparative Government
Subfields of Political Science
Authoritarianism
Contestation
27. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Transition
Collective action problem: causes
State
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
28. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Gender as a Category
Civic Engagement
Primordialism
Constructivism
29. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
State Strength
Collective action problem: Solutions
Constitution
Non-democratic regimes
30. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Three types of Political Organization
Transition
Political Party
Authority
31. A government with a one house legislature.
Unicameral Legislature
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
State Strength
Advantages of Social Movements
32. 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
Consolidation
Comparative Government
Primordialism
State Strength
33. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Majoritarian
Party System
Bureaucracy
International Relations
34. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Identity
Theories
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Regime type
35. 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
Political Violence
Patronage
Collective action problem: causes
Terrorism
36. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Qualitative method
Economics
State Strength
Conservatism
37. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Gender as a Process
Party System
Collective action problem: causes
Primordialism
38. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Transition
Culture
Political Identity
Quantitative
39. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Consensual
Disadvantages of Social Movements
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Madison's dilemma
40. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Science
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Quantitative
Sovereignty
41. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Socialism
Interest Groups
Advantages of Social Movements
Constructivism
42. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Politics
Observational/Evidential
Contestation
Classic Liberal Argument
43. 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
Authoritarianism
Science
Collective action problem: Solutions
44. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Gender as a Process
Solidarity
Totalitarianism
State Strength
45. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Non-democratic regimes
Why States/Governments
classic Liberalism
Disadvantages of Social Movements
46. Shared sets of meanings
Culture
Primordialism
Economics
Party System
47. 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
Civic Engagement
Threshold
Social Movements: Causes
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?
Participation
Contestation
Interest Groups
Fascism
49. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
Communism
Participation
Constitution
Collective action problem: Solutions
50. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Liberalism
Political Theory
Communism
Rational Choice (Individual Level)