Do all states behave the same?

Question 1

What is the nature of public opinion?

Answer 1

Emotional and Unreliable

Question 2

What is the Arnold Lippmann consensus?

Answer 2

Public Opinion is emotional

Question 3

What is the rebuttal for the Arnold Lippmann consensus?

Answer 3

Public Opinion is rational

Question 4

How do autocrats handle nuclear weapons?

Answer 4

Some states pursue nukes because of their motives.

Question 5

What is an example of the Democratic Peace?

Answer 5

Democracies do not fight each other

Question 6

What are three things that happen when a state turns into a democracy?

Answer 6

Foreign Aid, Sanctions, and Rule of Law

Question 7

What are three things that happen in an authoritarian regime?

Answer 7

Violence, Control over information, and Control over the nation’s economy

Question 8

What is Confirmation Bias?

Answer 8

Evidence your intial hunch was right

Question 9

What is avaliability Bias?

Answer 9

Decisions based on what you can easily remember

Question 10

What is Fundamental Attribution Error?

Answer 10

focusing on internal traits and ignoring the impact of outside situations

Question 11

What is Group think?

Answer 11

Prioritizing agreements in group decisions

Question 12

What is Second Image reversed?

Answer 12

How a state’s internal politics affect it’s actions in international politics

Question 13

What is an example of Restrain?

Answer 13

The U.S. making Iraq leave Kuwait

Question 14

What is an example of Reshape?

Answer 14

Taking Iraq from a dictatorship to a democracy

Question 15

What is a Realist?

Answer 15

States prioritize their interests

Question 16

What is Domestic Politics?

Answer 16

How a state’s internal matters affect its relations with other states

Question 17

What is a summary of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 17

The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a 13-day standoff over Soviet missiles in Cuba, ending with the Soviets removing the missiles in exchange for a U.S. non-invasion pledge.

Question 18

What is the Rational policy model?

Answer 18

Making decisions based on facts to reach goals

Question 19

What is the Organizational process model?

Answer 19

Decisions are made by rules, not just by leaders

Question 20

What is the Bureaucratic politics model?

Answer 20

Different government groups shape foreign policy by arguing and negotiating with each other

Question 21

What is Audience Cost?

Answer 21

Costs that leader may endure if they do not deliver their promises

Question 22

What is Second image approach?

Answer 22

How a state’s government affects its actions with other states

Question 23

What is level 1 of the Two-level games?

Answer 23

Negotiators come to an agreement

Question 24

What is level 2 of the Two-level games?

Answer 24

Leaders take that agreement to their domestic constituents

Question 25

What is Voluntary Defection?

Answer 25

Leave an agreement willingly

Question 26

What is Involunatry Defection?

Answer 26

Leaves an agreement because it is forced

Question 27

What is the Polity Score of a Democracy?

Answer 27

6 to 5

Question 28

What is the Polity Score of a Anocracy?

Answer 28

-5 to 5

Question 29

What is the Polity Score of a Autocracy?

Answer 29

-10 to -6

Question 30

What are two differences between Democracies and Autocracies?

Answer 30

Democracies have the Rule of law, elections, and Separation of Powers. Autocracies have Propaganda, the limited Rule of Law, and lack of Political Competetions.