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CLEP Political Science
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1. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Political Party
Communism
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Political Violence
2. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Observational Laws
Interest Groups
State
Sovereignty
3. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Method of Inference
Utilitarian Justification
Solidarity
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
4. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Three types of Political Organization
Constitution
Terrorism
Liberalism
5. 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.
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Liberalism
Empirical Knowledge
Collective action problem: Solutions
6. The making of collectively binding decisions
Threshold
Politics
State Strength
Social Movements: Causes
7. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Sovereignty
Patronage
District Magnitude
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
8. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Consensual
Criticisms of Rational Choice
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Patronage
9. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Collective action problem: Solutions
Gender as a Process
Constitution
Ideology
10. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Science
Patronage
Empirical Knowledge
Culture
11. 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
Socialism
Conservatism
District Magnitude
Subfields of Political Science
12. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Madison's dilemma
(Civil) Society
Interest Groups
Observational/Evidential
13. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Totalitarianism
Quantitative
Constitution
Communism
14. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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15. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Bureaucracy
(Civil) Society
Patronage
16. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Party System
Majoritarian
Fascism
Solidarity
17. A government with a one house legislature.
Unicameral Legislature
Interest Groups
political equality
Advantages of Social Movements
18. Shared sets of meanings
Political Theory
Bureaucracy
Interest Groups
Culture
19. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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20. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Gender as a Process
Primordialism
Theories
Ideology
21. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Classic Liberal Argument
Democracy
Transition
Culture
22. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Classic Liberal Argument
Primordialism
Culture
Madison's dilemma
23. 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
Ideology
Theories
24. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Collective action problem: Solutions
political equality
Majoritarian
Participation
25. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Constitution
Method of Inference
Advantages of Social Movements
Ideology
26. 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
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Totalitarianism
Constitution
Party System
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
Identity
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Majoritarian
Threshold
28. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
International Relations
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Regime type
Socialism
29. 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
Constructivism
Social Movements
Fascism
Political Party
30. 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 Factors of Strong States
Significance of Collective action problem
Political Theory
Method of Inference
31. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Communism
Threshold
Party System
Ideology
32. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Consolidation
political equality
Collective action problem: causes
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
33. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Economics
Regime type
Observational Laws
Politics
34. 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
Qualitative method
Advantages of Social Movements
Economics
Social Movements
35. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Quantitative
Contestation
Political Science
Ideology
36. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Communism
Solidarity
State Strength
Politics
37. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Sovereignty
Regime type
Politics
Solidarity
38. 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'
Unicameral Legislature
Civic Engagement
Revolution
(Civil) Society
39. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Comparative Government
International Relations
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Method of Inference
40. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Politics
Bureaucracy
Qualitative method
Ideology
41. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Bureaucracy
Communism
Regime type
classic Liberalism
42. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Three types of Political Organization
Comparative Government
Participation
Interest Groups
43. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Ideology
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Constructivism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
44. 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
International Relations
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Interest Groups
45. 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
State
Communism
Transition
46. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Politics
Non-democratic regimes
Sovereignty
47. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Political Factors of Strong States
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Conservatism
Quantitative
48. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Communism
Political Factors of Strong States
Three types of Political Organization
49. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Constitution
Ideology
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Solidarity
50. 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
classic Liberalism
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Quantitative
Primordialism