political violence (unit 7)

Question 1

political violence

Answer 1

use of force outside of state control that seeks to achieve some political goal

Question 2

institutional explanation for political violence

Answer 2

existing institutions may encourage violence or constrain human action
presidentialism

Question 3

ideational explanation for political violence

Answer 3

ideas may justify or promote the use of violence
nationalism

Question 3

ideational explanation for political violence

Answer 3

ideas may justify or promote the use of violence
nationalism

Question 4

individual explanation for political violence

Answer 4

psychological or strategic factors may lead people to carry out violence
humiliation

Question 5

revolution

Answer 5

public seizure of the state in order to overturn existing government and regime

Question 6

coup detat

Answer 6

elites overthrow the government

Question 7

relative deprivation model

Answer 7

gap between actual conditions and public expectations

Question 8

terrorism

Answer 8

use of violence by nonstate actors against civilians to achieve a political goal

Question 9

state-sponsored terrorism

Answer 9

state sponsors nonstate terrorist groups as a means to extend their power, instrument of foreign policy

Question 10

guerilla war

Answer 10

nonstate combatants who largely accept traditional rules of war and target the state rather than civilians

Question 11

nihilism

Answer 11

belief that all institutions and values are essentially meaningless and that only redeeming value a person can embrace is violence