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30 Cards in this Set
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What is the Clocks/Clouds problem and how does it relate to science?
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Time is standard and accepted (like hard science), Clouds are ever changing (political science)
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What is the Wink-Blink problem and how does it relate to poly sci?
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It is difficult to see and explain what is happening, even if you're part of it
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Why can Britain be used as a way to see democracy in action?
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occurred slowly, evolution vs. revolution, was the first to happen
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What are the five problems with Political Science?
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1. Can't do controlled experiments
2. Morality 3. Power 4. Falsifiability |
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What is the Cultural Relativity of General Laws?
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One can never know if two things are caused by the same factors or if they're completely different
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What is the Butterfly Effect?
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A concept that shows that one can never know everything about everything because there could be unknown factors influincing the situation
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How does Experimental Influence effect political science?
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Experimenters can change reality and alter people's answers
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Subjective or Value Impregnated Aspects of Social Phenonmena
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Can never know why the doer does what the doer does. doers may not even know themselves
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Value Oriented Bias of Social Inquiry
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Everybody has a bias that can effect how something turns out
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What are the two broad rules of Political Science borrowed from hard science?
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1. Replace systems with variables
2. Always use a research design that controls variables |
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What is the relationship between economics and democracy?
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Nobody really knows. The more democratic, however, the better money is spread out
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list the facilitating conditions of Britain as a democracy
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Rivers
Strong Navy Indpendent european culture Island Many ports |
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What is a facilitating condition?
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Something that is neither necessary nor sufficient
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What does the Magna Carta do?
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Creates relationship between King, Clergy, and lords
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How did the black plague influence democracy?
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break down of feudalism- lords had to replace workforce
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What are the enclosurers?
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Fences built around grassy lands for sheep to graze. Involved removing peasants from land
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How were the enclosurers important to democracy?
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Created private property, merchant classes could trade sheeps wool, merchant classes had capital, surplus labor, surplus wool, urbanization, removed conservativism from peasantry
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How was conservativism removed from Britain?
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Enclosure movement caused the king to side with the peasants because he was afraid the lords would take over. He wanted more support
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What are the necessary conditions that were important to democracy?
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Urbanization, enclosure movement, wage labor, capital, no peasantry
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contestation // inclusion
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people must make a case for being allowed to vote before they actually should be allowed to
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What did the corn laws do to democracy?
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This ended the oligarchical structure of Britain because it cut into costs of grain industry
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What did the industrial revolution have to do with democracy/
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It created unions of workers
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During what war were all men 21+ and women 30+ allowed to vote?
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WWI
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In britan, where does sovereignty come from?
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The mace
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Why does the monarchy still exist?
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History keeps this factor of British politics around
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What is the funnel of causality?
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a model used by theorists to explain decision making processes
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What is a potential problem with the funnel of causality?
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oversimplification could be a problem with this political science model
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What does the top of the funnel indicate? The bottom?
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Top is the most generalized reason, bottom is the most specific reasoning
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What is the life peerages act?
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This act gives the right for people to be appointed members of the House of Lords but are not given the power of lineage
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What is the official secrets act?
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Keeps anything that happens in Parliament within parliament
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