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CLEP Political Science
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1. The rules about making the rules - often embodied in a constitution.
Regime type
Empirical Knowledge
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Contestation
2. 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.
Participation
Politics
Gender as a Process
Criticisms of Rational Choice
3. A consciously derived - coherent set of beliefs that offers a comprehensive political program
Ideology
Political Factors of Strong States
Sovereignty
Consolidation
4. Energy or righteous zeal wins large numbers of participants - Nimble in framing issues and changing tactics
Social Movements
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Advantages of Social Movements
Classic Liberal Argument
5. About agency: we deserve freedom and need to be held meaningfully accountable
Classic Liberal Argument
Political Science
Threshold
Method of Inference
6. 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
State Strength
Observational/Evidential
District Magnitude
Primordialism
7. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district
District Magnitude
Political Science
Nation
Authoritarianism
8. A formal document that sets up the basic rules of the political game
Authoritarianism
Political Science
Madison's dilemma
Constitution
9. Basically - density and quality of civil society
Science
Culture
Civic Engagement
District Magnitude
10. (Voluntary) allocation (production and distribution) of goods and services
During what century did political science emerge as a systemic study? Where?
Authority
Economics
Observational/Evidential
11. 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
Political Science
Advantages of Social Movements
(Civil) Society
12. 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
Party System
International Relations
Science
Transition
13. Comparative Politics - International Relations - American Politics - (normative) theory or Political Philosophy
Classic Liberal Argument
Constitution
Subfields of Political Science
Politics
14. when you must get a minimum percent of votes to have your votes count or (sometimes) to retain your party registration
Threshold
Consensual
Lijphart's majoritarian vs. consensual
Constitution
15. Any identity that significantly shapes our political decisions
Participation
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Political Identity
Gender as a Category
16. A political system controlled by rulers who deny popular participation in government
Politics
Authority
Civic Engagement
Authoritarianism
17. A non-meritocratic system in which jobs and contracts are distributed according to partisan support - (The U.S. 'spoils system' of the 19th century')
Patronage
Social Movements
Consolidation
Subfields of Political Science
18. Political violence by non-state actors against civilian targets
Regime type
International Relations
Culture
Terrorism
19. 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
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Collective action problem: Solutions
Identity
International Relations
20. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability
Patronage
Formula for allocating seats according to vote
Utilitarian Justification
Transition
21. America's two ideologies (Liberal and Conservative) are two versions of classic liberalism
classic Liberalism
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Subfields of Political Science
Liberalism
22. 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
Liberalism
Regime type
Gender as a Category
Significance of Collective action problem
23. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Judicial Review - Number of chambers: bicameral - Federalism: Federal
Theories
Consensual
Quantitative
classic Liberalism
24. Regime where the rulers are accountable to the ruled.
Democracy
Political Theory
Constitution
District Magnitude
25. The making of collectively binding decisions
Bases of legitimacy/authority in non-democratic regimes
Political Party
Politics
Quantitative
26. 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.
Constitution
(Civil) Society
Collective action problem: causes
Democracy
27. A government with a one house legislature.
Unicameral Legislature
District Magnitude
Collective action problem: Solutions
Observational/Evidential
28. An organization that seeks elective office - Currency/instrument: votes
Observational/Evidential
(Civil) Society
Political Party
Social Movements: Causes
29. Shared sets of meanings
Party System
Contestation
Political Party
Culture
30. Use of method of inference to create generalizeable explanations
Non-democratic regimes
Classic Liberal Argument
Science
Political Violence
31. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally
political equality
Ideology
Majoritarian
Party System
32. A political organization that primarily uses lobbying - Currency/instrument: money - information - numbers
Authoritarianism
Interest Groups
Comparative Government
Subfields of Political Science
33. Process tracing through case studies. Requires a well-developed theory and minute examination ('process tracing')
Classic Liberal Argument
Political Theory
District Magnitude
Qualitative method
34. No or low citizen accountability ('subjects' rather than 'citizens') - Reciprocal relationship between leader and selectorate - Totalitarianism vs. authoritarianism
Non-democratic regimes
Political Factors of Strong States
Constitution
Authority
35. 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
Political Factors of Strong States
Criticisms of Rational Choice
Political Science
36. Utility maximization - Preferences: Comparability/Completeness - Transitivity - Probability - Incomplete information and uncertainty about future - Mathematical modeling
Participation
Politics
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
Gender as a Category
37. Territorial monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Refers to the government + the people + the territory ('the country')
Theories
State
Liberalism
Economics
38. State of nature (collective action problem) - Hobbes' solution: the social contract
Why States/Governments
Observational Laws
Significance of Collective action problem
Subfields of Political Science
39. 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
Non-democratic regimes
Collective action problem: causes
Political Theory
Party System
40. Monarchies - Single-party regimes - Military regimes - Oligarchies - Theocracies - Personalistic regimes
Qualitative method
Classic Liberal Argument
Types and examples of non-democratic regimes
Regime type
41. 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
Why States/Governments
Subfields of Political Science
Socialism
Authority
42. Number of Parties 2 - Constitutional Review: Parliamentary supremacy - Number of chambers: Unicameral/weak bicameral - Federalism: Unitary
Totalitarianism
Majoritarian
Socialism
Social Movements
43. Hard to amass resources (money and information) - Short-lived - The dilemma of formalization
Disadvantages of Social Movements
Political Science
Political Identity
Ideology
44. 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
political equality
Social Movements
Political Violence
District Magnitude
45. 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
Patronage
Culture
Comparative Government
State Strength
46. 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'
Party System
Revolution
Consensual
Rational Choice (Individual Level)
47. The opportunity to choose among alternative candidates and positions
Constructivism
Three types of Political Organization
Solidarity
Contestation
48. Basically - synonymous for statistical method - Large numbers of observational data - 'Control' for confounding factors
Quantitative
Authority
Party System
Madison's dilemma
49. Force + Legitimacy
Solidarity
Collective action problem: causes
Comparative Government
Authority
50. The set of relationships among parties in a country - Often categorized by the effective number of parties.
Party System
Participation
Social Movements
Constructivism