Comparitive Politics 9/15

Question 1

Ethnic Identity

Answer 1

A set of institutions that bind people together through common culture. Passed down generation to generation; social, not political, identity; differences can be institutionalized: language religion, customs, appearance, etc.

Question 2

Ascription

Answer 2

The assigning of a particular quality at birth

Question 3

Rwanda

Answer 3

Tutsis and Hutus were of the same language, religion, geographic area but showed minimal differences (diet and looks). Caused ethnic conflict in 1990; 800,000 people were killed in 100 days; Hutu elites wanted to keep power from Tutsi

Question 4

Nation

Answer 4

A group of people bound together by a common set of political aspirations, the most important which is self-government and sovereignty

Question 5

Independent State

Answer 5

Most people think members should govern themselves, it is less accessible to have outsiders rule

Question 6

Citizenship

Answer 6

A formal recognition of a person’s relationship to the state

Question 7

Ethnic Conflict

Answer 7

Struggle between ethnic groups that aim to achieve certain political, social, and/or economic goals at each other’s expense (zero-sum game)

Question 8

National conflict

Answer 8

Groups seek to gain (or prevent) sovereignty clashing with one another over the quest to form an independent state

Question 9

Elite Manipulation

Answer 9

A system of means of means of ideological spiritual and psychological influence on the mass conscienceness in order to impose certain values or ideas

Question 10

Ecological Resource Scarcity

Answer 10

Scarcity of resources coupled with very high population density

Question 11

Sociopsychological and Cultural Dynamics

Answer 11

Obedient and conformist nature to follow orders

Question 12

Political Economy

Answer 12

The study of the relationship between states and markets, how political and the economy are related

Question 13

Markets

Answer 13

Communities of buyers and sellers, interaction between supply and demand, allocation of resources

Question 14

Goods

Answer 14

Things people enjoy

Question 15

Private goods

Answer 15

Possible to exclude from consuming; consumption reduces availability

Question 16

Public goods

Answer 16

Impossible to exclude others from consuming; consumption does not reduce availability

Question 17

Spending and taxing

Answer 17

Taxes come from a variety of sources (income taxes, value aded (or sales) taxes, property, etc); taxes directly affect the economy and society

Question 18

States Contribution

Answer 18

Spending and taxing, Creating money, regulation markets, regulation international commerce, spending on public goods and transfers (social security, medicaid, etc.)

Question 19

Money

Answer 19

A medium of exchange: people use it to trade things; a social institution because they expect others to do the same

Question 20

Store of value

Answer 20

Waiting until later to buy something

Question 21

Unit of account

Answer 21

Knowing how much wealth you have