test 1

Question 0

How do we define politics?

Answer 0

The process through which power and influence are used in the promotion of certain values and interests

Question 1

What is political science?

Answer 1

techniques, concepts, and approaches used to understand politics

Question 2

What are the different types of knowledge associated with political science?

Answer 2

• Description of political facts
• explanations of how and why politics occurs as it does
• Prescriptions of what should happen in the political world

Question 3

What are the characteristics of the scientific method?

Answer 3

• observed/measured
• regularities in phenomenon
• cumulative
• testable

Question 4

How do we apply the scientific method to political science

Answer 4

describe/explain politics

Question 5

What are major subfields of political science?

Answer 5

• political theory
• american politics
• international relations
• comparative politics

Question 6

What are prescriptions and how do they effect our political views?

Answer 6

• value judgement that indicates what should be done

* answers to questions of what ought to be not mere description of what is

Question 7

What do we study when looking at micro politics?

Answer 7

The individual

Question 8

What are the three political orientations we use when reacting to political phenomena?

Answer 8

• Cognitive
• Evaluative
• Affective

Question 9

What are political belief systems?

Answer 9

configuration of political orientations

Question 10

What characteristics do we use to examine a persons belief system?

Answer 10

• content
• complexity
• consistency
• Salience
• stability
• motivate to political action

Question 11

What are the characteristics of a simple versus sophisticated belief system?

Answer 11

Simplistic knows facts and opinions

Sophisticated knows abstract or overarching concepts

Question 12

What are political ideologies?

Answer 12

Comprehensive set of beliefs about the political world- about desirable political goals and the best way to achieve them

Question 13

What is constraint knowledge?

Answer 13

Grasp of abstract overarching political concepts

Question 14

How do types of government affect political actions?

Answer 14

Less/no democratic countries have greater reliance on unconventional political behavior

Question 15

What types of actions do political interest groups engage in?

Answer 15

• Political action
• Cooperation
• Exchange information
• Provide material resources

Question 16

What are the characteristic of an interest group?

Answer 16

• share the common objective of attempting to influence the allocation of public influence
• Pursue variety of strategies to achieve purpose

Question 17

What are the characteristics of political parties?

Answer 17

A group that attempts to capture political power directly by placing members in government office

Question 18

What are the different types of interest groups?

Answer 18

• Anomic
• Associational
• Non-association
• Institutional

Question 19

What is conventional political action?

Answer 19

Voting, campaign activities

Question 20

What is unconventional political action?

Answer 20

Protest, terrorism

Question 21

What are the activities that political parties often engage in?

Answer 21

• link individual and system
• brokers of ideas
• coordinate governmental operations
• agents of political socialization
• serving as sources of opposition
• mobilizing and recruiting political activists

Question 22

What is political socialization?

Answer 22

Process that forms political beliefs and values

Question 23

What are the agents of political socialization?

Answer 23

• Major sources of political training
• family
• schools
• peer groups
• media
• religion
• culture
• events

Question 24

How does the environment affect political behavior?

Answer 24

Activate, repress, transform, or amplify a persons political environment

Question 25

What is a persons political personality?

Answer 25

The deeper psychological dynamics inside the individual that affect that person’s response to political stimuli

• normative approach
• empirical approach

Question 26

What affects do personal characteristics have on politics?

Answer 26

Act as filters that influence how the environment and agents of socialization affect an individual’s political behavior

Question 27

What is sovereignty?

Answer 27

Each state has complete authority and is the ultimate source of law within its own boundaries

Question 28

What is the definition of a state?

Answer 28

Legal: Territorial bound sovereign entity

Function: machinery for political devotions and enforcement

Question 29

What is the definition of a nation?

Answer 29

A set of people with a deeply shared fundamental identification

Question 30

What is the doctrine of territorial integrity?

Answer 30

State has the right to defend itself within its territorial boarders

Question 31

What are Almonds eight essential functions that must be preformed by every state?

Answer 31

• political socialization
• political recruitment
• political communication
• interest articulation
• interest aggregation
• policy making
• policy implementation
• policy adjudication

Question 32

What are the major goals of states?

Answer 32

• security
• stability
• prosperity

Question 33

What are the core underlying themes of conservatism?

Goal
Individual
Interaction
Equality

Answer 33

Goal- stability

Individual- guided by ethics and values

Interaction- government uses power to maintain social order

Equality- cannot be forced disrupts stability

Question 34

What are the core underlying themes of classical liberalism?

Goal
Individual
Interaction
Equality

Answer 34

• Goal- individual freedom
• Individual- rational responsible
• Interaction- tradition and hierarchy get in the way of reaching capability
• Equality- legal equality not material equality

Question 35

What are the core underlying themes of socialism?

Goal
Individual
Interaction
Equality

Answer 35

• Goal- equal conditions of life
• Individual- caring cooperation for collective good
• Interaction- big government that supports the good of the whole
• Equality- social, material, political equality