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CLEP Political Science
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1. 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
Non-democratic regimes
Totalitarianism
Consolidation
Political Identity
2. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Consolidation
Observational/Evidential
Contestation
Classic Liberal Argument
3. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Party System
(Civil) Society
classic Liberalism
Quantitative
4. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Consolidation
State Strength
Majoritarian
Political Identity
5. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Socialism
Collective action problem: Solutions
Primordialism
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
6. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Participation
Constructivism
Sovereignty
Non-democratic regimes
7. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
Political Science
Consensual
International Relations
Threshold
8. 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
Advantages of Social Movements
Terrorism
Comparative Government
Contestation
9. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Identity
Three types of Political Organization
Madison's dilemma
Civic Engagement
10. The making of collectively binding decisions
Politics
Advantages of Social Movements
Quantitative
(Civil) Society
11. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Terrorism
Participation
Contestation
Totalitarianism
12. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Civic Engagement
Consensual
Why States/Governments
(Civil) Society
13. 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'
Gender as a Process
Three types of Political Organization
Political Identity
Revolution
14. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Method of Inference
Solidarity
Ideology
Participation
15. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Madison's dilemma
Democracy
Social Movements
16. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
State Strength
Primordialism
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Observational Laws
17. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
(Civil) Society
Identity
Participation
State
18. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Advantages of Social Movements
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Identity
Threshold
19. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
State Strength
Party System
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Quantitative
20. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Ideology
Utilitarian Justification
Constructivism
political equality
21. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Why States/Governments
Interest Groups
Patronage
Liberalism
22. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Constructivism
Communism
Disadvantages of Social Movements
23. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Political Identity
political equality
Sovereignty
Liberalism
24. 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
Regime type
Advantages of Social Movements
Consolidation
Ideology
25. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
(Civil) Society
Party System
Socialism
Comparative Government
26. 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
Collective action problem: causes
political equality
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Political Violence
27. 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
Political Party
Terrorism
Social Movements
Identity
28. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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29. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Empirical Knowledge
Classic Liberal Argument
Political Factors of Strong States
Constitution
30. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Consolidation
Terrorism
Consensual
Majoritarian
31. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Regime type
District Magnitude
Criticisms of Rational Choice
32. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Contestation
Party System
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Utilitarian Justification
33. 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
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Ideology
Empirical Knowledge
Primordialism
34. 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.
Civic Engagement
Social Movements: Causes
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
35. 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
Liberalism
Political Party
Conservatism
36. 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
Totalitarianism
Gender as a Category
Political Factors of Strong States
Communism
37. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
political equality
Political Science
Qualitative method
Communism
38. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Comparative Government
Patronage
Qualitative method
Culture
39. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Constitution
Socialism
Majoritarian
Politics
40. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')
political equality
Fascism
Majoritarian
Qualitative method
41. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Civic Engagement
Contestation
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Qualitative method
42. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Three types of Political Organization
Empirical Knowledge
Authority
Quantitative
43. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Significance of Collective action problem
Consensual
Authority
Collective action problem: Solutions
44. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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45. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Primordialism
Democracy
Sovereignty
(Civil) Society
46. 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.
Constitution
Method of Inference
Political Identity
Empirical Knowledge
47. 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)
Participation
Culture
Qualitative method
Significance of Collective action problem
48. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Contestation
Regime type
Sovereignty
Science
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
Revolution
State
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Social Movements: Causes
50. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Observational Laws
Primordialism
Political Theory
Why States/Governments