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CLEP Political Science
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1. 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
Political Violence
Method of Inference
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Interest Groups
2. 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
Identity
Liberalism
Collective action problem: causes
Why States/Governments
3. 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?
political equality
Fascism
Political Science
Terrorism
4. 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
classic Liberalism
Conservatism
Consensual
Political Violence
5. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy
Authority
Consolidation
State Strength
Authoritarianism
6. 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
Ideology
Collective action problem: causes
Method of Inference
Consolidation
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?
Communism
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Significance of Collective action problem
Participation
8. The making of collectively binding decisions
Gender as a Process
Politics
Observational/Evidential
Science
9. Force + Legitimacy
Bureaucracy
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Authority
Transition
10. Describes the principal characteristics of what has been studied.
Why States/Governments
State Strength
Observational/Evidential
classic Liberalism
11. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Madison's dilemma
District Magnitude
Gender as a Process
Social Movements
12. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Culture
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Observational Laws
Subfields of Political Science
13. 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
Majoritarian
classic Liberalism
Gender as a Category
Socialism
14. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Theories
Fascism
Science
Gender as a Category
15. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Science
Collective action problem: Solutions
District Magnitude
Revolution
16. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Bureaucracy
(Civil) Society
political equality
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
17. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Authority
Regime type
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
18. 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
(Civil) Society
Comparative Government
Collective action problem: causes
Social Movements: Causes
19. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Economics
Contestation
Non-democratic regimes
Interest Groups
20. 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
Authoritarianism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Three types of Political Organization
21. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Civic Engagement
Regime type
Advantages of Social Movements
Political Science
22. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Terrorism
Party System
Why States/Governments
Communism
23. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
State
Democracy
Authoritarianism
Political Party
24. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Non-democratic regimes
Politics
Majoritarian
Authoritarianism
25. 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
Unicameral Legislature
Social Movements: Causes
Empirical Knowledge
Constitution
26. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Madison's dilemma
Majoritarian
Contestation
Comparative Government
27. 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
Consensual
Consolidation
Political Science
Political Violence
28. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Political Theory
Regime type
Method of Inference
29. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Threshold
Why States/Governments
Unicameral Legislature
political equality
30. Historical origins. Failure of liberalism to address shortcomings of capitalist industrialization; Marx - Central assumption: All persons are of equal value - but they cannot develop themselves alone
Advantages of Social Movements
Socialism
Participation
Constitution
31. 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.
Interest Groups
Science
Ideology
Empirical Knowledge
32. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...
Sovereignty
Authoritarianism
Nation
Criticisms of Rational Choice
33. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Non-democratic regimes
Utilitarian Justification
Significance of Collective action problem
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
34. A government with a one house legislature.
Unicameral Legislature
Constitution
Authoritarianism
Theories
35. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Transition
Consensual
Civic Engagement
36. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Gender as a Category
Terrorism
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
37. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
Method of Inference
Advantages of Social Movements
Significance of Collective action problem
classic Liberalism
38. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Socialism
Sovereignty
Patronage
Collective action problem: Solutions
39. Concentration vs. dispersal of power
40. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Authoritarianism
Contestation
Patronage
41. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
Ideology
Subfields of Political Science
International Relations
Threshold
42. Efficiency vs. representativeness
43. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Economics
Advantages of Social Movements
Liberalism
44. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Gender as a Process
Participation
Classic Liberal Argument
Observational Laws
45. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Political Science
political equality
Constitution
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
46. 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
Qualitative method
Liberalism
Transition
Conservatism
47. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Significance of Collective action problem
Democracy
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Threshold
48. 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
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Primordialism
Majoritarian
Socialism
49. 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'
Totalitarianism
Consensual
Revolution
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
50. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Ideology
Primordialism
Authority
Collective action problem: causes