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CLEP Political Science

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1. Traditionally measured as capacity and autonomy






2. Hypotheses based on what has been observed.






3. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements






4. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')






5. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance






6. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game






7. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism






8. 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






9. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.






10. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization






11. Efficiency vs. representativeness

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12. 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






13. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism






14. Charismatic - Rational-legal - Traditional/patrimonial






15. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions






16. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal






17. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers






18. Selective incentives - Small group size - Social (solidary) incentives - Homogeneity - Others? Duty and altruism? Love?






19. 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






20. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable






21. The making of collectively binding decisions






22. Public administration (civil service). All (non-military) government workers not elected to their posts - but hired (United States beginning in 1880s)






23. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy






24. An identity-based community - where the identity is strong enough that we think we should probably be sovereign...






25. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets






26. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes






27. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.






28. The organized study of government and politics. It borrows from the related disciplines of history - philosophy - sociology - economics - and law.






29. 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.






30. 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'






31. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.






32. 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






33. Warfare and military technology - Economic: development of trade and manufacturing and new financial/fiscal instruments - Cultural: Enlightenment - (There are also Environmental/geographic factors)






34. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes






35. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program






36. Shared sets of meanings






37. A government with a one house legislature.






38. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations






39. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.






40. 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






41. Force + Legitimacy






42. 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?






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. Concentration vs. dispersal of power

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47. 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.






48. Long-lived - Extreme lack of social pluralism - Well-defined ideology - Against capitalism - Based on Marxist arguments about class solidarity - economic determinism - Socialism run amok?






49. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government






50. 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







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