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CLEP Political Science
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1. A government with a one house legislature.

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

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

4. it works better in the long run - less risk/variability

5. equality in political decision making: one vote per person - with all votes counted equally

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

7. All voluntary associations/all secondary associations

8. how many seats are allotted to each electoral district

9. 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

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

11. 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

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

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

14. Political parties - Interest groups - Social movements

15. 19th - in the United States and Western Europe.

16. 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.

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

18. monopoly over the legitimate use of force

19. 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.

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

21. 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?

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

23. 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.

24. Shared sets of meanings

25. Also known as interpersonal trust & tolerance

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