SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Political Science
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
political-science
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Ideology
Quantitative
Threshold
State Strength
2. 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
Comparative Government
Authoritarianism
3. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Constitution
Contestation
Democracy
Authority
4. 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
Advantages of Social Movements
Social Movements
Theories
(Civil) Society
5. 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
Social Movements: Causes
Primordialism
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Criticisms of Rational Choice
6. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Madison's dilemma
State Strength
Identity
Authority
7. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Qualitative method
Gender as a Process
Social Movements: Causes
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
8. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Interest Groups
Theories
Why States/Governments
classic Liberalism
9. 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
Subfields of Political Science
Three types of Political Organization
Conservatism
Bureaucracy
10. 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?
Fascism
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Political Science
Patronage
11. 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.
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Nation
Unicameral Legislature
Gender as a Process
12. Efficiency vs. representativeness
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
13. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Revolution
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Sovereignty
Party System
14. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Utilitarian Justification
Empirical Knowledge
Totalitarianism
Quantitative
15. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Bureaucracy
Collective action problem: causes
Collective action problem: Solutions
Constructivism
16. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Why States/Governments
Comparative Government
Significance of Collective action problem
Regime type
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
Constitution
Comparative Government
Why States/Governments
Constructivism
18. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
District Magnitude
19. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Transition
Political Science
Constructivism
Disadvantages of Social Movements
20. The making of collectively binding decisions
Politics
Social Movements
Revolution
Classic Liberal Argument
21. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Economics
Comparative Government
Identity
Constitution
22. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Consensual
Classic Liberal Argument
Theories
Observational/Evidential
23. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Ideology
Solidarity
Sovereignty
District Magnitude
24. 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
Why States/Governments
Collective action problem: Solutions
Majoritarian
Identity
25. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Constitution
Nation
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Madison's dilemma
26. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Collective action problem: causes
Theories
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Political Identity
27. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Political Science
Threshold
Ideology
Civic Engagement
28. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
29. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')
Qualitative method
Participation
classic Liberalism
Empirical Knowledge
30. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Civic Engagement
Political Identity
Economics
Social Movements: Causes
31. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Civic Engagement
Subfields of Political Science
(Civil) Society
Identity
32. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
State Strength
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Why States/Governments
Threshold
33. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Terrorism
Patronage
Contestation
Economics
34. 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
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Method of Inference
Social Movements: Causes
Socialism
35. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Identity
Democracy
political equality
Totalitarianism
36. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Collective action problem: Solutions
Participation
political equality
Economics
37. 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
Utilitarian Justification
Socialism
Collective action problem: causes
Unicameral Legislature
38. 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
Revolution
Sovereignty
Constitution
Transition
39. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Regime type
Significance of Collective action problem
Classic Liberal Argument
Conservatism
40. 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.
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Consensual
Communism
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
41. 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
Observational Laws
Political Party
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
42. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Why States/Governments
Totalitarianism
Qualitative method
Disadvantages of Social Movements
43. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Socialism
Observational Laws
Authoritarianism
Democracy
44. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Regime type
Observational Laws
Sovereignty
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
45. 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
Primordialism
Totalitarianism
District Magnitude
Transition
46. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Three types of Political Organization
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Threshold
Utilitarian Justification
47. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Quantitative
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Revolution
State
48. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Solidarity
Observational Laws
political equality
Democracy
49. 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
Constitution
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Civic Engagement
Political Theory
50. 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 Category
Political Identity
Method of Inference
Communism