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. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Party System
Gender as a Category
Non-democratic regimes
Consensual
2. 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'
classic Liberalism
Regime type
Revolution
Gender as a Category
3. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
political equality
Collective action problem: causes
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Utilitarian Justification
4. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Utilitarian Justification
Non-democratic regimes
Empirical Knowledge
Collective action problem: Solutions
5. 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?
Science
Fascism
Democracy
Non-democratic regimes
6. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Comparative Government
Non-democratic regimes
Primordialism
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
7. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
State
Subfields of Political Science
Quantitative
Communism
8. Shared sets of meanings
classic Liberalism
Political Party
Fascism
Culture
9. 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
District Magnitude
Constructivism
Identity
Constitution
10. 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
Totalitarianism
Bureaucracy
Method of Inference
Gender as a Process
11. 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.
Ideology
Fascism
Constitution
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
12. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Communism
Three types of Political Organization
13. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Classic Liberal Argument
Madison's dilemma
Quantitative
Economics
14. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Social Movements: Causes
Terrorism
Economics
State Strength
15. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
classic Liberalism
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Authoritarianism
Totalitarianism
16. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Contestation
Conservatism
Civic Engagement
Ideology
17. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
International Relations
Criticisms of Rational Choice
(Civil) Society
Nation
18. 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
Constitution
Interest Groups
Totalitarianism
Theories
19. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Qualitative method
Sovereignty
Observational/Evidential
Why States/Governments
20. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Why States/Governments
Political Violence
Unicameral Legislature
Science
21. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Political Identity
Socialism
Solidarity
Science
22. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
International Relations
Qualitative method
Madison's dilemma
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
23. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Patronage
Quantitative
24. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Madison's dilemma
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Theories
(Civil) Society
25. The making of collectively binding decisions
Primordialism
Social Movements
Political Science
Politics
26. 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
Gender as a Category
Quantitative
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Civic Engagement
27. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Qualitative method
Civic Engagement
Empirical Knowledge
Threshold
28. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Civic Engagement
Observational/Evidential
Quantitative
Culture
29. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Bureaucracy
Interest Groups
Liberalism
Three types of Political Organization
30. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Social Movements
Politics
Democracy
31. 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
Regime type
Transition
Consolidation
District Magnitude
32. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Bureaucracy
Political Science
Method of Inference
Identity
33. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Socialism
Participation
Consolidation
Subfields of Political Science
34. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals
Comparative Government
Fascism
Political Violence
Advantages of Social Movements
35. 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.
Contestation
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Political Theory
Primordialism
36. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Observational Laws
Regime type
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
37. 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
Fascism
Revolution
Non-democratic regimes
38. Efficiency vs. representativeness
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
39. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Socialism
Empirical Knowledge
Majoritarian
Democracy
40. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Totalitarianism
Constitution
Qualitative method
41. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Solidarity
Social Movements: Causes
Sovereignty
Fascism
42. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Constitution
Communism
Interest Groups
(Civil) Society
43. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
political equality
Political Science
Classic Liberal Argument
Sovereignty
44. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Identity
Patronage
Conservatism
classic Liberalism
45. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Regime type
Quantitative
Constructivism
Terrorism
46. 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
Ideology
Primordialism
Solidarity
47. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Nation
Subfields of Political Science
Theories
Revolution
48. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
49. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Majoritarian
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Bureaucracy
Consolidation
50. 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 Science
Significance of Collective action problem
Transition
Primordialism