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CLEP Political Science
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1. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals
Gender as a Category
Observational/Evidential
State Strength
Political Violence
2. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
Political Identity
Communism
Constructivism
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
3. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Contestation
Totalitarianism
Culture
4. 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.
Interest Groups
Sovereignty
Regime type
Constitution
5. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Regime type
Politics
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Patronage
6. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Observational/Evidential
Collective action problem: Solutions
Democracy
Culture
7. 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
Significance of Collective action problem
Primordialism
Madison's dilemma
Observational Laws
8. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Contestation
Political Party
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Political Factors of Strong States
9. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Science
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Participation
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
10. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Unicameral Legislature
Consensual
(Civil) Society
11. 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'
Bureaucracy
Significance of Collective action problem
Revolution
Identity
12. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Collective action problem: causes
District Magnitude
Democracy
classic Liberalism
13. 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.
Political Violence
Collective action problem: Solutions
Authority
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
14. 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
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Interest Groups
Social Movements
Consensual
15. Force + Legitimacy
Majoritarian
classic Liberalism
Authority
Three types of Political Organization
16. A government with a one house legislature.
State Strength
Unicameral Legislature
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Participation
17. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Solidarity
Political Theory
State
Criticisms of Rational Choice
18. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Advantages of Social Movements
Totalitarianism
Political Factors of Strong States
Unicameral Legislature
19. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Solidarity
Unicameral Legislature
Party System
Observational Laws
20. 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)
(Civil) Society
Significance of Collective action problem
Madison's dilemma
Civic Engagement
21. 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
Social Movements: Causes
Comparative Government
Majoritarian
22. 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
Political Theory
Authoritarianism
Political Party
Totalitarianism
23. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Collective action problem: causes
International Relations
Fascism
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
District Magnitude
Identity
State Strength
Consolidation
25. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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26. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Civic Engagement
Constructivism
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Authoritarianism
27. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Constitution
Sovereignty
Observational Laws
State Strength
28. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
political equality
Advantages of Social Movements
Why States/Governments
Three types of Political Organization
29. The making of collectively binding decisions
Gender as a Process
Politics
Constitution
Totalitarianism
30. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Unicameral Legislature
Majoritarian
Democracy
Political Violence
31. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Solidarity
Ideology
Primordialism
Why States/Governments
32. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Terrorism
Non-democratic regimes
Threshold
Unicameral Legislature
33. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
District Magnitude
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Gender as a Category
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
34. Historical origins. A response to the old feudal order and the rise of modern capitalism - 'The highest good of society [is] the ability of the members of that society to develop their individual capacities to the fullest extent' (p. 26) One of the 3
Liberalism
Method of Inference
Constitution
Transition
35. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Gender as a Process
Interest Groups
classic Liberalism
36. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Observational Laws
Constitution
Madison's dilemma
37. 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
Transition
Majoritarian
Communism
Regime type
38. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Bureaucracy
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Communism
Quantitative
39. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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40. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Observational Laws
Empirical Knowledge
Advantages of Social Movements
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
41. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Political Violence
Subfields of Political Science
Gender as a Process
Authoritarianism
42. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Authority
Social Movements: Causes
Significance of Collective action problem
classic Liberalism
43. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Observational Laws
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Regime type
Majoritarian
44. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Majoritarian
Political Science
Politics
Participation
45. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Utilitarian Justification
Regime type
Subfields of Political Science
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
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.
Social Movements: Causes
Science
Empirical Knowledge
Identity
47. 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
Constitution
District Magnitude
Conservatism
Theories
48. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Method of Inference
Party System
Majoritarian
State
49. 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
Subfields of Political Science
Solidarity
Constructivism
Method of Inference
50. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Social Movements
Nation
Constructivism
Bureaucracy