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Comparative Politics

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By: Ella Brewer
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Decks in this class (17)

Week 1 Terms
Comparative politics,
Collective action,
Rationality
3  cards
Week 2 Terms
Ideal types and typologies,
Regimes,
Pluralism
10  cards
Week 3 Terms
Transformation,
Replacement,
Transplacement
18  cards
Week 4 Terms
Presidential system,
Parliamentary system,
Mixed presidential parliamentary ...
15  cards
Parliamentary vs. Presidential Democracies
Stability parliamentary,
Stability presidential,
Democratic parliamentary
12  cards
Causes of Democratization
Socio economic preconditions,
Existing regime loss of legitimacy,
Existing regime split in existing...
9  cards
The Magic Lantern
Poland socioeconomic,
Poland old regime,
Poland opposition
20  cards
Week 5 Terms: Statistics
Independent variable,
Dependent variable,
Regression
13  cards
Week 6 Terms: Electoral Rules
Ballot structure,
Electoral threshold,
District magnitude
22  cards
Week 7 Terms: Sociological and Rational Voting
Postmaterialism,
Social cleavages overlapping,
Social cleavages
13  cards
Week 8 Terms: Economic and Rational Voting
Incumbent,
Retrospective voting,
Prospective voting
17  cards
Week 9 Terms: Parties and Party Systems
Party,
Elite cadre parties,
Mass parties
10  cards
Week 10 Terms: Partisanship
Party identification partisanship,
Socio psychological theory michig...,
Socialization
9  cards
Week 11 Terms: Ethnic Politics
Primordialism,
Instrumentalism,
Ethnicity
10  cards
Week 12 Terms: Polarization
Affective polarization,
Ideological polarization,
Elite polarization
10  cards
Final Exam Readings
Norris,
Schaffner understanding,
Downs an economic theory of democ...
22  cards
Catch-All Study Deck
Statistics what is the difference...,
Statistics what are cross section...,
Electoral systems what are the th...
32  cards

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