6 Weeks

Question 1

Politics

Answer 1

Getting power, using it and Keeping it.

Question 2

Different Types of Politics

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Comparative, International Relations, American, Political theory/political philosophy

Question 3

Nash Equilibrium

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Outcome where both situations reap the greatest benefits.

Question 4

Comparative Politics

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Study of political phenomena that occur within countries

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Tragedy of the Commons

Answer 5

Garret and Jane Hardin, someone reaps benefits with little regard to how it will affect the state

Question 6

State

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An entity that possesses a monopoly on the legitimate use of force must have territory as well.

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Sovereignty

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A political concept that refers to dominant power or supreme authority.

Question 8

Nation

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A group of people with a deeply shared set of fundamental identifications.

Question 9

Nation State

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A political unit in which the state has a legitimate centralized political authority that rules over a population within the territory that shares a common identity.

Question 10

Contractararian theory of state

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The state makes a contract with the people

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Preadatory theory of the state

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The state exploits its citizens by providing a “protection racket”

Question 12

Political Regime

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A regime is simply a political system. However, it is often an authoritarian one.

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Democracy

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A form of government by the whole population or eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

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Anarchy

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Anarchy is a society without rulers

Question 15

Dictatorship

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A dictatorship is an autocratic government which is characterized by a leader or group of leaders who hold government powers with little to no limitations.

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Polyarchy

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A political regime with high levels of contestation and inclusion. This is as close as we can get to a true democracy.

Question 17

Dictators Dilemma

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As a dictator has no way of knowing who approves of them, and therefore doesn’t know when an uprising may occur

Question 18

Hybrid Regime

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Competitive Authoritarianism, autocratic and democratic features.

Question 19

Competitive Authoritarianism

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Illiberal democracy, like Democracy with unfair elections

Question 20

Democratic Backsliding

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Occurs when executives weaken checks changes that hamper the power of opposition forces to challenge executive preferences.

Question 21

Modernization Theory

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Created by Seymour Martin Lipset. Societies move from agriculture to industrial and therefore from dictorial to democratic.

Question 22

Survival Story

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Adam Przeworski, theory that as countries develop, they become richer and Democracy is more likely to survive, but not emerge.

Question 23

Bottom up Transition

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People rise up to overthrow a popular regime

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Top Down Transition

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A regime becomes brittle and a dictatorial elite introduces liberalizing reforms.

Question 25

Collective Action Problem

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When protesting, not everyone will join and contribute to the collective good. There will be preference falsification until the tipping point.

Question 26

Public Good

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Something everyone benefits from, fought for in the collective action problem

Question 27

Tipping Model

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Point at which a revolutionary threshold will be overcome and citizens will join a protest.

Question 28

Revolutionary Threshold

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Point at which a person is willing to participate in a protest.

Question 29

Political Behavior

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Shared patterns of political orientations or belief systems that characterize a large group of people. Includes opinion, communication, psychology and participation.

Question 30

Belief Systems

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Include cognitive orientations, affective orientations and evaluative orientations.

Question 31

Cognitive orientation

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Our knowledge of politics

Question 32

Affective orientation

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How you feel about politics

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Evaluative Orientation

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synthesis of facts and feelings

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Political Culture

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Set of attitudes, beliefs and norms held by a population towards poltiics

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Primordialism

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Belief that a country is built off of original cultural values.

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Constructivism

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Treats culture as something that is constructed or invented rather than inherited.