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CLEP Political Science
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1. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Communism
Political Party
Regime type
Authoritarianism
2. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Political Identity
Observational/Evidential
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Empirical Knowledge
3. 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
classic Liberalism
Totalitarianism
Culture
Significance of Collective action problem
4. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Threshold
Political Science
Sovereignty
Nation
5. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Social Movements
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Regime type
Gender as a Process
6. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Solidarity
Politics
Political Factors of Strong States
Socialism
7. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals
Political Science
Liberalism
Political Party
Political Violence
8. 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)
political equality
Collective action problem: causes
Nation
Significance of Collective action problem
9. 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
Political Theory
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Conservatism
Social Movements: Causes
10. A historical exploration of the major contributions to political thought from the ancient Greeks to the contemporary theorists. It also involves the philosophical and speculative consideration of the political world.
Totalitarianism
Political Theory
Constitution
District Magnitude
11. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Participation
Transition
Significance of Collective action problem
Classic Liberal Argument
12. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Terrorism
Identity
Regime type
Communism
13. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Science
Political Violence
Revolution
Threshold
14. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Identity
Comparative Government
Political Violence
Threshold
15. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Social Movements
Constitution
Interest Groups
Civic Engagement
16. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
political equality
Democracy
Observational/Evidential
Civic Engagement
17. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
State Strength
Consolidation
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Quantitative
18. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Observational/Evidential
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
State
Qualitative method
19. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Party System
Constitution
Regime type
Criticisms of Rational Choice
20. 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
Fascism
Collective action problem: causes
Why States/Governments
Qualitative method
21. 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
Communism
Conservatism
Observational Laws
Political Violence
22. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Bureaucracy
Political Party
State
Subfields of Political Science
23. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Conservatism
Constitution
Interest Groups
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
24. 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
Gender as a Process
Political Factors of Strong States
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Social Movements
25. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Observational Laws
Ideology
Comparative Government
Criticisms of Rational Choice
26. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Science
Consensual
Culture
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
27. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
Ideology
Collective action problem: causes
Observational Laws
International Relations
28. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Contestation
Three types of Political Organization
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Totalitarianism
29. The making of collectively binding decisions
Comparative Government
Utilitarian Justification
Consolidation
Politics
30. 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
Transition
Totalitarianism
Culture
31. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Culture
Empirical Knowledge
Interest Groups
32. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Majoritarian
Subfields of Political Science
Comparative Government
Qualitative method
33. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Political Violence
Comparative Government
Classic Liberal Argument
Quantitative
34. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Sovereignty
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Consensual
35. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Quantitative
State Strength
District Magnitude
Collective action problem: Solutions
36. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Method of Inference
(Civil) Society
Gender as a Category
Classic Liberal Argument
37. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Sovereignty
Quantitative
Liberalism
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
38. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Political Party
Why States/Governments
Consensual
Three types of Political Organization
39. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Constitution
Political Party
Patronage
Political Factors of Strong States
40. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Socialism
Advantages of Social Movements
Party System
Interest Groups
41. 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
Identity
Political Identity
Observational/Evidential
Quantitative
42. 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
Comparative Government
Consolidation
Totalitarianism
District Magnitude
43. Shared sets of meanings
Regime type
Culture
Subfields of Political Science
Sovereignty
44. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Utilitarian Justification
Social Movements: Causes
Politics
Theories
45. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Political Identity
Constitution
Political Party
Economics
46. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Political Science
Political Violence
Constructivism
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
47. A government with a one house legislature.
Socialism
Three types of Political Organization
Unicameral Legislature
Transition
48. 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
Non-democratic regimes
political equality
Revolution
49. 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.
Consensual
(Civil) Society
Politics
Empirical Knowledge
50. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
(Civil) Society
Sovereignty
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Transition