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CLEP Political Science
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1. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Unicameral Legislature
Solidarity
Contestation
Gender as a Category
2. Force + Legitimacy
Political Theory
Fascism
Consolidation
Authority
3. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Nation
Political Violence
Social Movements: Causes
Classic Liberal Argument
4. monopoly over the legitimate use of force
Contestation
Sovereignty
Collective action problem: Solutions
International Relations
5. 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
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Subfields of Political Science
State
Constructivism
6. 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)
Unicameral Legislature
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Significance of Collective action problem
International Relations
7. 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
Socialism
Political Party
Qualitative method
8. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.
Political Science
Comparative Government
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Gender as a Category
9. 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
Constitution
Why States/Governments
Regime type
10. Shared sets of meanings
Collective action problem: causes
Comparative Government
Culture
Threshold
11. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Observational Laws
Liberalism
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Civic Engagement
12. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
political equality
Utilitarian Justification
Comparative Government
Conservatism
13. 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
Party System
Social Movements: Causes
Empirical Knowledge
Gender as a Category
14. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.
State Strength
Political Theory
Totalitarianism
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
15. 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
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Authority
Totalitarianism
16. 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.
Empirical Knowledge
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
classic Liberalism
Authoritarianism
17. Situation where all fully qualified citizens have an equal say
Constitution
Participation
Qualitative method
Bureaucracy
18. Efficiency vs. representativeness
19. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Ideology
Qualitative method
Consolidation
Revolution
20. 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.
Majoritarian
Politics
Collective action problem: Solutions
Constitution
21. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
Classic Liberal Argument
Advantages of Social Movements
District Magnitude
Madison's dilemma
22. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
Empirical Knowledge
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
political equality
Consensual
23. The making of collectively binding decisions
Politics
Constructivism
State
Why States/Governments
24. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Patronage
Science
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Criticisms of Rational Choice
25. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)
Constitution
Method of Inference
Political Factors of Strong States
Theories
26. 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
Unicameral Legislature
Revolution
Social Movements
Constructivism
27. 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
Advantages of Social Movements
Economics
Consolidation
28. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)
Revolution
Bureaucracy
Madison's dilemma
State Strength
29. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations
Criticisms of Rational Choice
(Civil) Society
Bureaucracy
Threshold
30. 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.
Madison's dilemma
Threshold
Political Theory
Democracy
31. A consideration of how nations interact with each other within the frameworks of law - diplomacy - and international organizations such as the United Nations.
Regime type
International Relations
Subfields of Political Science
Culture
32. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Authority
Political Identity
Three types of Political Organization
Classic Liberal Argument
33. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance
Solidarity
classic Liberalism
Regime type
Disadvantages of Social Movements
34. 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
Transition
Subfields of Political Science
(Civil) Society
Patronage
35. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Quantitative
Authority
Observational Laws
Socialism
36. 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.
Gender as a Process
State
Democracy
Authoritarianism
37. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Consensual
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Fascism
Democracy
38. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements
Three types of Political Organization
Method of Inference
District Magnitude
Sovereignty
39. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
Authority
Communism
Interest Groups
Economics
40. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Regime type
Political Factors of Strong States
Authority
Constitution
41. 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 Identity
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
42. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Transition
Socialism
Gender as a Process
Threshold
43. Analyzing the data that has been collected and offering plausible general principles that can be drawn from what has been observed.
Nation
Theories
Political Party
Madison's dilemma
44. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Authority
Transition
Subfields of Political Science
District Magnitude
45. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?
District Magnitude
Collective action problem: Solutions
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Nation
46. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Why States/Governments
Consensual
Collective action problem: Solutions
47. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Constitution
Gender as a Process
Interest Groups
political equality
48. 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
Subfields of Political Science
Terrorism
Collective action problem: causes
Interest Groups
49. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Liberalism
Patronage
Political Theory
50. 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
Socialism
Constitution
State Strength
Solidarity