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CLEP Political Science
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1. Force + Legitimacy
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Collective action problem: causes
Consolidation
Authority
2. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Nation
Civic Engagement
District Magnitude
Method of Inference
3. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Observational/Evidential
State
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Primordialism
4. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Constitution
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Consensual
Political Violence
5. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?
Communism
Authority
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Ideology
6. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Solidarity
International Relations
Party System
Authority
7. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Comparative Government
Classic Liberal Argument
Constitution
Fascism
8. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Advantages of Social Movements
Political Factors of Strong States
Transition
Nation
9. 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
Science
Method of Inference
Gender as a Category
State Strength
10. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
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11. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.
Observational Laws
Why States/Governments
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Political Party
12. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Bureaucracy
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Significance of Collective action problem
13. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Social Movements
Utilitarian Justification
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Ideology
14. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Political Identity
Sovereignty
Significance of Collective action problem
Liberalism
15. 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
State
Madison's dilemma
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Totalitarianism
16. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Democracy
Subfields of Political Science
Regime type
17. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Party System
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
State Strength
International Relations
18. A government with a one house legislature.
Participation
Unicameral Legislature
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
(Civil) Society
19. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Interest Groups
Primordialism
Civic Engagement
Authority
20. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Social Movements: Causes
Authoritarianism
Constructivism
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
21. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Regime type
Constructivism
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Nation
22. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Participation
Observational/Evidential
Science
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
23. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Majoritarian
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Theories
Regime type
24. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Quantitative
Collective action problem: Solutions
Utilitarian Justification
Participation
25. 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
Gender as a Process
Identity
Threshold
Why States/Governments
26. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
Transition
Collective action problem: Solutions
Primordialism
Constructivism
27. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Contestation
Liberalism
Why States/Governments
Social Movements: Causes
28. Efficiency vs. representativeness
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29. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
Transition
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Constitution
Sovereignty
30. 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
Revolution
Constructivism
Conservatism
Socialism
31. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
Political Identity
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
International Relations
Collective action problem: causes
32. 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.
classic Liberalism
Empirical Knowledge
Political Identity
Political Theory
33. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Consensual
Economics
Authoritarianism
Participation
34. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Political Science
Social Movements
Social Movements: Causes
Democracy
35. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Why States/Governments
Majoritarian
Party System
Regime type
36. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Constitution
Non-democratic regimes
Democracy
37. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
classic Liberalism
Primordialism
Observational/Evidential
Theories
38. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Utilitarian Justification
Classic Liberal Argument
Constructivism
Communism
39. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Consolidation
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Utilitarian Justification
(Civil) Society
40. 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
Threshold
Constitution
Method of Inference
Political Factors of Strong States
41. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Subfields of Political Science
Bureaucracy
Participation
Non-democratic regimes
42. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Authority
Transition
Participation
Ideology
43. 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
Social Movements
Economics
State
Contestation
44. 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.
Authority
Gender as a Category
Political Factors of Strong States
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
45. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Identity
political equality
Qualitative method
Sovereignty
46. 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
Qualitative method
Conservatism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Participation
47. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Political Science
Three types of Political Organization
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Social Movements
48. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')
Participation
Gender as a Process
Qualitative method
Bureaucracy
49. 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?
Fascism
Civic Engagement
Transition
Social Movements
50. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Constitution
State
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Solidarity