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CLEP Political Science
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1. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Solidarity
Non-democratic regimes
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
(Civil) Society
2. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Collective action problem: causes
Transition
Non-democratic regimes
Collective action problem: Solutions
3. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Ideology
Party System
Classic Liberal Argument
Disadvantages of Social Movements
4. 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
Political Identity
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Comparative Government
5. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Party System
Quantitative
Majoritarian
Socialism
6. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Utilitarian Justification
Socialism
Participation
Civic Engagement
7. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Economics
Three types of Political Organization
Political Identity
Authority
8. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Three types of Political Organization
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
District Magnitude
Nation
9. 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.
Constitution
Politics
Political Identity
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
10. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Political Factors of Strong States
Constitution
Consensual
Party System
11. 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
Significance of Collective action problem
Consolidation
Social Movements: Causes
Quantitative
12. A government with a one house legislature.
Qualitative method
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Unicameral Legislature
Primordialism
13. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Subfields of Political Science
Why States/Governments
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
14. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Interest Groups
Classic Liberal Argument
Politics
Party System
15. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Political Party
Significance of Collective action problem
Political Factors of Strong States
Totalitarianism
16. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Method of Inference
Solidarity
Utilitarian Justification
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
17. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Politics
Nation
Political Factors of Strong States
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
18. Shared sets of meanings
Revolution
Quantitative
Majoritarian
Culture
19. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
International Relations
Sovereignty
Political Identity
Criticisms of Rational Choice
20. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Democracy
Collective action problem: causes
Observational Laws
Political Factors of Strong States
21. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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22. 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.
Political Violence
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Authority
Gender as a Process
23. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Three types of Political Organization
Sovereignty
Empirical Knowledge
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
24. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Civic Engagement
Terrorism
Observational/Evidential
25. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Contestation
Democracy
Civic Engagement
Patronage
26. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Observational/Evidential
State
Ideology
Social Movements
27. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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28. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
classic Liberalism
political equality
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Participation
29. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Three types of Political Organization
Nation
(Civil) Society
30. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Constitution
Political Violence
Economics
Totalitarianism
31. 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
Comparative Government
Primordialism
Subfields of Political Science
Three types of Political Organization
32. 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
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
political equality
Collective action problem: causes
Interest Groups
33. 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
Method of Inference
Civic Engagement
Observational/Evidential
34. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Constructivism
Advantages of Social Movements
Social Movements
Why States/Governments
35. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Democracy
Theories
Party System
Political Party
36. 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.
Comparative Government
District Magnitude
Socialism
Constitution
37. 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
Bureaucracy
Totalitarianism
Authoritarianism
political equality
38. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Party System
Subfields of Political Science
Political Party
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
39. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
(Civil) Society
Political Science
Threshold
Political Theory
40. 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
Collective action problem: Solutions
Socialism
Comparative Government
Subfields of Political Science
41. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
State Strength
Threshold
District Magnitude
Advantages of Social Movements
42. 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?
Identity
Observational/Evidential
Conservatism
43. 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
Consensual
Interest Groups
Consolidation
44. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Constitution
Social Movements: Causes
Science
Interest Groups
45. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Social Movements: Causes
Subfields of Political Science
Non-democratic regimes
Gender as a Process
46. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Ideology
Political Science
Utilitarian Justification
47. 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
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Consolidation
Political Identity
Observational/Evidential
48. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Fascism
Science
Authoritarianism
Observational/Evidential
49. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Majoritarian
Non-democratic regimes
Gender as a Process
Unicameral Legislature
50. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Significance of Collective action problem
Participation
Party System
Empirical Knowledge