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CLEP Political Science
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Social Movements
State Strength
Method of Inference
Culture
2. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Utilitarian Justification
Primordialism
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Why States/Governments
3. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Consolidation
Solidarity
Political Science
Utilitarian Justification
4. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Conservatism
Advantages of Social Movements
State Strength
Socialism
5. 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
Empirical Knowledge
Significance of Collective action problem
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Comparative Government
6. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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7. 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.
Consolidation
Party System
Empirical Knowledge
Socialism
8. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Significance of Collective action problem
Economics
Fascism
9. Force + Legitimacy
Political Science
Authority
Solidarity
Fascism
10. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Three types of Political Organization
Political Factors of Strong States
Socialism
Observational/Evidential
11. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Constitution
Observational/Evidential
Quantitative
Science
12. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Madison's dilemma
Science
Patronage
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
13. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Democracy
political equality
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Revolution
14. 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
District Magnitude
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Constitution
Totalitarianism
15. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Totalitarianism
(Civil) Society
Participation
political equality
16. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Significance of Collective action problem
classic Liberalism
Method of Inference
Madison's dilemma
17. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
(Civil) Society
Utilitarian Justification
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Majoritarian
18. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
International Relations
Revolution
Civic Engagement
Interest Groups
19. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Political Party
Fascism
Contestation
20. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Identity
Socialism
Subfields of Political Science
State Strength
21. 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
Constructivism
Madison's dilemma
Sovereignty
22. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Solidarity
Consensual
Three types of Political Organization
Bureaucracy
23. 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
Three types of Political Organization
Authority
Consensual
Gender as a Category
24. 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
Liberalism
(Civil) Society
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Interest Groups
25. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Threshold
Contestation
Gender as a Process
classic Liberalism
26. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Identity
(Civil) Society
Culture
Disadvantages of Social Movements
27. 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
Regime type
Constructivism
Comparative Government
Economics
28. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Collective action problem: Solutions
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Observational Laws
Non-democratic regimes
29. 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
Interest Groups
Fascism
Constitution
30. 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.
Identity
District Magnitude
Terrorism
Constitution
31. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Madison's dilemma
Collective action problem: causes
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Threshold
32. 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
Political Science
Constitution
Non-democratic regimes
Conservatism
33. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Subfields of Political Science
Utilitarian Justification
Threshold
Patronage
34. 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.
Gender as a Process
Ideology
Nation
Observational Laws
35. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Political Violence
State Strength
Unicameral Legislature
Majoritarian
36. 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)
Authoritarianism
Bureaucracy
Sovereignty
Significance of Collective action problem
37. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Collective action problem: causes
Party System
Bureaucracy
Political Science
38. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')
District Magnitude
Consensual
Fascism
Qualitative method
39. 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
State Strength
political equality
Significance of Collective action problem
40. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Ideology
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Party System
Nation
41. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Observational Laws
Authority
Communism
Threshold
42. 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.
Utilitarian Justification
Totalitarianism
Regime type
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
43. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Three types of Political Organization
Terrorism
Nation
Unicameral Legislature
44. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Party System
Utilitarian Justification
State Strength
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
45. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Political Science
Fascism
State
Majoritarian
46. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Revolution
Science
Political Factors of Strong States
Collective action problem: causes
47. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Method of Inference
Party System
Politics
Significance of Collective action problem
48. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals
Political Violence
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Threshold
Observational/Evidential
49. 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
Bureaucracy
Political Party
Interest Groups
50. A government with a one house legislature.
Fascism
Unicameral Legislature
Political Party
Sovereignty