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CLEP Political Science
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1. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Quantitative
Political Violence
Science
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
2. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Gender as a Process
Non-democratic regimes
Nation
Political Party
3. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Political Identity
Authority
Authoritarianism
Theories
4. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Theories
Regime type
Advantages of Social Movements
(Civil) Society
5. 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
Unicameral Legislature
Constructivism
Collective action problem: causes
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
6. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Ideology
Consolidation
Political Theory
Theories
7. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Threshold
Political Party
8. Efficiency vs. representativeness
9. 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
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Constructivism
Terrorism
10. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Social Movements: Causes
Madison's dilemma
Liberalism
Sovereignty
11. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Terrorism
Politics
Three types of Political Organization
International Relations
12. 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
Conservatism
Authoritarianism
Totalitarianism
Politics
13. 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
Nation
Socialism
Constitution
Criticisms of Rational Choice
14. 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.
Comparative Government
Primordialism
(Civil) Society
Political Theory
15. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Method of Inference
Consensual
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
classic Liberalism
16. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
International Relations
Three types of Political Organization
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Regime type
17. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Collective action problem: Solutions
Politics
Patronage
Political Science
18. 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
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Conservatism
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Constructivism
19. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Political Identity
Science
State
20. 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.
Solidarity
Observational Laws
Gender as a Process
Madison's dilemma
21. 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.
Terrorism
Empirical Knowledge
Majoritarian
Socialism
22. 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.
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Transition
Regime type
Criticisms of Rational Choice
23. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Empirical Knowledge
Consensual
Totalitarianism
Political Violence
24. Force + Legitimacy
classic Liberalism
Authority
Consolidation
Identity
25. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Collective action problem: causes
District Magnitude
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Qualitative method
26. 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
Gender as a Process
Political Theory
Method of Inference
Why States/Governments
27. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Democracy
Primordialism
Political Identity
Science
28. 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
(Civil) Society
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Identity
Sovereignty
29. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Bureaucracy
Identity
Comparative Government
State Strength
30. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Political Theory
Science
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Nation
31. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Fascism
Party System
Political Factors of Strong States
Method of Inference
32. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
political equality
Party System
Collective action problem: Solutions
Quantitative
33. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Qualitative method
Solidarity
Constitution
Unicameral Legislature
34. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Party System
Political Violence
Regime type
Threshold
35. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Identity
Consolidation
Majoritarian
Primordialism
36. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Observational Laws
Social Movements
Political Science
Authority
37. 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
Identity
Gender as a Category
Liberalism
38. 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
Empirical Knowledge
Utilitarian Justification
Social Movements
39. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Why States/Governments
Democracy
Consensual
Fascism
40. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Patronage
Threshold
Gender as a Category
Identity
41. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Communism
Culture
Politics
Civic Engagement
42. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Party System
Gender as a Process
Political Science
Interest Groups
43. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Totalitarianism
Politics
Political Identity
Socialism
44. 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
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Advantages of Social Movements
Empirical Knowledge
Primordialism
45. 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'
Revolution
Method of Inference
Primordialism
Madison's dilemma
46. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Revolution
Collective action problem: Solutions
Political Theory
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
47. 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?
Why States/Governments
Political Science
Consolidation
Fascism
48. A government with a one house legislature.
Fascism
Consensual
Unicameral Legislature
Madison's dilemma
49. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Democracy
Authoritarianism
Non-democratic regimes
Participation
50. The use of force by states or non-state actors to achieve political goals
Unicameral Legislature
Political Violence
Collective action problem: causes
Identity