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52 Cards in this Set
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Normative Questions
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a speculative quetsion-asks what might be-no correct answer
ex. Will China become Democratic? |
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Empirical Questions
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Quantitative question-has specific scientific based data
ex. How much has China's GDP grown in the past 20 years |
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State
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Insitutions, people, a group that has power to offect chage, an organization within a monopoly in decision-making in an area
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Nation
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A group of people bound together by race, religion, or backgroud, psycological
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Country
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state, government, regime, and people who live within a particular political system. hardware
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Regime
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the fundamental rules and norms of politics indicates long term goals. software. Authoritarian, democratic
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Society
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a particular group of people and their culture, interactions with eachother and political institutions
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Government
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The people/elite who are in charge of running the state- we run over our gov. regularly. operators not irreplaceble
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Instituions
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groups that exercise policy-making authority. Organizations that are self-perpetuation have intrensive value governmetn functions. legislative, judicial, exectutive
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Political Culture
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History, culture, values, beliefts and traditions that influence our beliefs about politics. ex. gay rights and bible
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Politics
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Who gets what, when and how struggle for decision-making authority within a group. ex. allocation or rewards
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Legitimacy
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acceptance of the governemnts right to rule. ex 2000 election (no one proposed Bush's inauguration even though he lost pop vote. US has high degree
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Traditional Legitimacy
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rooted in tradion, myth and legend. Based on the way it's always been. ex. Great Britain, monarchies
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Charismatic LEgitimacy
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based on the power of ideas and the ability to sell these ideas ex. Reagan, Jesus, hitler, Mohammed
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Rational-Legal Legitimacy
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based on the rule of law. ex. Hitler US Presidents, PMs
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Sovereignty
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ability to carry out actions independent of internal/external actors. Most nation states ahve high levels. ex. US-high low-Iraq
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Revolution
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when a political regime is overthrown, sweeping social changes
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Correlation
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apparent connection
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Causation
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change in one variable causing a change in another
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Politiacl Cleavatge
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factions that switch out groups. ex. ethnicity, race, religion, gender, class
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Crosscutting Cleavage
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divisions taht cut across differences. ex. political parties
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coinciding (cumulative) cleavages
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divisions that strengthen feelings of difference and discrepancy
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Liberal Democracy
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democracy with strong protection of civil rights and liberties. high access to information, high level of political competition, economic freeedom. ex. Canada, Western Europe
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Illiberal Democracy
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Not strong protection of civil rights and liberties, no political competition, limited economic freedom and access to information. ex. Russia, and Iran
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Social Democracy
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emphasize economic equality, high taxes, throrough and generous welfare benefits and programs. ex. sweden frace germany
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communism
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political economic system baded on public ownership of the means of production, dictatoriship, authroitarism...
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Authoritarian
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gov't based on cohesion. ex sadam hussein, n korea, china
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Corporatism
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Type of authoritarian government in which groups are gi en a monopoly in repretestienting an interest. Creates limitedpublic influence. ex. mexico until 1996
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cooptation
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type of cohersion. governments attempt to co-op competition, give someone a benefit
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Theocracy
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form of gov've where religion and gov't are intertwined
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political ideology
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a set of political values about what the goals of govt should be
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liberalism (as a plitical ideology)
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someone who favors a limited state role in society and the economy, high value of individual freedom
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cnoservatism
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political attitude taht questions the need for change and supports the current order
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Liberatrian
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little or no intereference in the economy and person freedoms. would favor legalization of drugs, laissez faire economy
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Political Attitude
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a way to descirbe what a person feels about the pace and method of change of the gov't
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liberalism (as an attitude)
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favors evolutionary change within a society
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Reactionary
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someone who wants to restore or imagine an real social and political order
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radicalism
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dramatic and revolutionary change
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nationalism
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pride in one's people and belief that they have a unique political destiny
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fascism
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political ideology based on the idea there are groups superior to others characterized by low levels of personal and eocnomic freedom to maximize state power
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proporational Representatiion
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electoral system in which political parties compete in multimember districts. You vote for a party not people. Seats awarded by percent of the popular vote. ex. germany
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first past the post/single member districts
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canidate who wins the vote gets the seat. ex. US
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political econmoy
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study of interaection between markets and the state
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Developed Countries
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high standard of living, high tech economy, 1st world contries. US, Great Britain, Germany, Austrailia
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Developing Countries "nic" third world
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Newly industrialized contry, rapid economic growth, low/average incomes, underdeveloped infrastructures. ex. Mexico india east asian countries
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Under-developed countries
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poorest of the poor
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Neoliberal Economic Reformas
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Economic reforms taht introduce market concpets to a mixed or comand economy. Few restrictions on economic or property rights. ex Mexico Nigeria China
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GDP Gross Domestic Product
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value of all goods and services produced in a country in 1 year. rough estimate of overall economic wealth
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Purchasing Power Party (PPP)
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Estimate of buying power using the US as a benchmark
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Human Development Index (HDI)
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Estimate of overall health wealth and education of a country's people
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Gini Index
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Formula that meausres level of inequality in a country
0= perfect equality 100= perfect inequality |
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Globalization
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Process of expanding and intensifying likages among states, societies and economies
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