midterm Flashcards
at least a c
Know an example of the political game of lion and fox.
Machiavelli’s advice statement on how to govern
Know an example of accommodation in politics
Political behavior that seeks a compromise between competing interests and is marked by cooperation, bargaining, and balloting.
Know when Khmer Rouge practiced the game of wipeout.
1975 to 1978
Know where the Solidarity Party used the game of strike against the Communist Party
Poland
Know how to characterize the game of lion and fox.
Game of politics in which a state’s vital interests are at stake and must be protected using both force and craft; political strategy first articulated by Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince.
Know the accusations of the Watergate Scandal.
1.attempted burglary Democratic Party’s national headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC in June 1972, Nixon was accused of approving the break-in. 2. August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned his presidency under threat of impeachment.
Know how to explain the use of power if it is placed on a continuum
balance, seduce, support. for example carrot and stick
Know the perpetrator of the game of destruction in the Soviet Union
stalin
Know Machiavelli’s thinking
A prince must be able to be violent and beastly (be a lion to ward of wolves and a fox to recognize traps)
Know an example of civil disobedience
Boston tea party
Know what Henry David Thoreau specifically directed his arguments for civil disobedience against.
slavery and war
Know what the political game of accommodation is marked by.
cooperation, bargaining, balloting
Know what political game Athens’s submission of Melos is.
wipeout
Know an example of an American terrorist group after the Civil War.
KKK
Know if the political games of wipeout, lion and fox, and civil disobedience are prevalent today.
Yes, trump used the lion and the fox when he fired people who went against his policies and instead hired people who he thought were more loyal. Wipeout is Palestine, civil disobedience is people tying themselves to trees so they wont be cut down and the blm protests
Know that politics is a process.
(1) public values are articulated, debated, and prescribed; (2) diverse political actors (individuals, interest groups, local or regional governments, and nations) cooperate and struggle for power to satisfy their vital needs, protect their fundamental interests, and advance their perceived desires; and (3) policy judgments are made and implemented
Know the basic elements of political games.
clashes and deadly conflicts, mild competition and pacific accommodation, or loving consent and freely given obedience.
Know the definition of genocide
systematic mass destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group
Know when civil disobedience is employed
When there is an outrageous moral evil and it must be done peacefully
Know that the worst elements of politics do exist in democracies
war, tyranny, economic ruin, and barbarism
Know the nature of political games.
Deceiving and calculated
Know who illustrates the twentieth-century pattern of destruction
HItler
Know the causes of the fluctuation in terrorist attacks
People get radicalized by the internet
Know the subtitle of the game of civil disobedience.
You have to be disobedient but never violent, must be selectively aimed, it must be public
Know Athenians view of neutral Melos.
They didn’t like it and later tried to take it over even though Melos wanted a more peaceful justice
Know where James Madison’s famous argument on behalf of the “extensive republic” appears.
In the federalist papers
Know the dilemma faced by Madison as he crafted a document to replace the Articles of Confederation
He had trouble reconciling liberty and authority in a large state
Know if you can or cannot legislate morality.
You cannot because everyone has different morals
Know what the German republic that formed after World War I was known as.
Weima republic
Know the arguments advanced against the establishment of a naval blockade to prevent the Soviet Union from placing offensive missiles in Cuba.
there were rumors of something being up in Cuba
Know the founder that advocated for a strong central government and opposed federalism.
Maddison
Know the advisory body that was central to aiding President John F. Kennedy in dealing with the Cuban missile crisis.
ExCom
Know about the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
after 9/11
Know the leader of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.
Nikita Khrushchev
Know what Madison’s theory of the extensive republic allowed for.
How Americans should enjoy the best of both worlds of freedom and government
Know Socrates answer to “Why should we obey the political community that makes claims on our allegiances?”
Because of the contribution that the political community makes to our life, growth, and fulfillment, we are required to obey its laws.
Know the definition of negative freedom.
No restraining force such as the government.
Know the city that put Socrates on trial and condemned him to death
Athens
Know the name of James Madison’s theory that helped to resolve the question of how liberty and authority could be created in a large country.
madisonian model
Know how easily humans are manipulated.
All vulnerable humans can be manipulated
know if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
no because if they did they wouldn’t have been raided in the first place
Know the three major components of political science
ethical empirical and choice
positivism as a philosophy.
phycological approvch that wants to legitimize scientific study of human organization through social studies
Know the four basic subfields of political science.
American government and politics, international relations, comparative politics political theory
Know who argued that the quest for the “best political order” must be central to political science
Leo strauss
Know what political empiricism is concerned with.
Political phenomena is concerned with what has been and what will be and what is
Know who developed an integrated prescriptive theory concerned with the importance of making republican values central to his thinking in a large diverse country.
James Madison
Know the main focus of the ethical component of political science
the focus of ethics within politics and how what’s right isn’t always ethical
Know an early leader of the post–World War II behavioral revolution in political science.
Philip converse
Know what the prudential component of political science is concerned with
practical application of politics
Know the largest budget items contributing to the U.S. national debt
defense
Know the post-behavioral approach to political science inspired by economics.
Rational choice
Know examples of empirical understanding.
based on observation and experience. tracking a plant everyday as it grows
Know what David Easton called the “intellectual foundation stones” of behavioralism.
belief in regularities, commitment to verification, emphasis on qualification, knowledge of pure science, systemization, acceptance of political science
Know the definition of political theory.
fundamental questions of governance
Know what the empirical component of political science investigates.
what goes on in politics and why
Know the primary concern of political scientists when examining prudential judgment.
make politics workable and realistic
Know who emphasized that there is no division between fact and value in political theory.
John locke
Know the leading producer of metals and nonmetallic minerals.
china
Know the primary assertion of Karl Marx
power of the ruling class comes in control of the economy
Know who wrote Democracy in America.
Alexis Tocqueville
Know what the world’s population is projected to be by 2050
9.7 billion
Know the primary goal of ISIS
solidify and expand territory
know the actual basis for discrimination over most of the world
racism
Know the primary consequence of the Industrial Revolution.
there’s a gap between the Rich the poor
