Chapter 2

Question 1

interests

Answer 1

what actors want to achieve through political action; interests/preferences and possible outcomes of actions would determine political action`

Question 2

actors

Answer 2

groups of people with common interests

Question 3

state

Answer 3

central authority that has ability to make and enforce laws within specific territory

Question 4

sovereignty

Answer 4

expectation that states have legal & political supremacy in their own land

Question 5

anarchy

Answer 5

absence of central authory/state

Question 6

national interests

Answer 6

interests credited to state itself (security & power)

Question 7

interactions

Answer 7

actions/ways in which choice of 2+ actors combine to produce political outcomes

Question 8

cooperation

Answer 8

group adoption of policy that makes AT LEAST 1 actor better off WITHOUT making the other worse

Question 9

bargaining

Answer 9

interaction when 2+ actors decide how to distribute something of value
-increasing one’s share decreases availability of share for others

Question 10

coordination

Answer 10

type of cooperation where actors benefit from making the same choices -> no incentive to not comply

Question 11

collaboration

Answer 11

type of cooperation where actors gain from working together but still have an incentive to not comply

Question 12

public goods

Answer 12

products/outcomes that are nonexcludable and nonrival in consumption (national defense, security)

Question 13

collective action problem

Answer 13

actors have incentitves to collab but don’t because they might have some conflicting interests (too many cooks in the kitchen)

Question 14

free ride

Answer 14

failing to contribute to public good while benefiting from contributions of others

Question 15

interation

Answer 15

repeated actions with the same partners

Question 16

linkage

Answer 16

linking of cooperative acts for one issue to interactions on second (start with one project then jump to the next)

Question 17

power

Answer 17

ability to get other actors to do somehting they wouldn’t usually do

Question 18

coercion

Answer 18

stategy of imposing or threatening to impose taxes on other actors to induce change in behavior

Question 19

outside option

Answer 19

alternative to bargaining with specific actor

Question 20

agenda setting

Answer 20

actions taken before or during bargaining that make reversion outcome more favorable than war

Question 21

institutions

Answer 21

set of rules created by actors that determine how states known and shared by community that structure interactions in specific ways