Chapters 1&2
Organization that maintains legitimate use of violence over a territory.
What is the state?
Institutions (such as language, religion, geographic location, customs, appearance, and history) that bind people together through common culture
What is Ethnic identity?
Political power exercised either directly or indirectly by the people through participation, competition, and liberty.
What is democracy?
Term to cover many different forms of nondemocratic rule.
What is authoritarianism?
Politically motivated violence outside of state control.
What is political violence?
The belief that as societies progress, they will become capitalist democracies.
What is modernization theory?
A pride in one's people and the belief in their own sovereign political destiny that is separate from those of others.
The system in which the president is directly elected by the public for a fixed term and has control over the cabinet and legislative process.
What is the presidential system?
Nondemocratic rule with with highly-centralized state whose regime has a well-defined ideology, and use violence as a tool for remaking institutions.
What is totalitarianism
Public seizure of the state in order to overturn the existing government and regime.
What is revolution?
The ability of the state to wield its power independently of the public or international actors
What is autonomy?
What is National Identity?
Single-member district (smd) and proportional representation (pr) are different types of....
What are electoral systems?
Political regimes controlled by a small group of individuals who exercise power, not beholden to the public.
What is nondemocratic regime?
Use of violence by non state actors against civilians to achieve a political goal.
What is terrorism?
The ability of the state to wield power in order to carry out basic tasks of governance such as providing security.
What is capacity?
An individual's relation to the state; the individual swears allegiance to the state and the state in return provides certain benefits or rights.
What is citizenship?
The promotion of equality.
What are civil rights?
Three forms of political control by nondemocratic regimes.
What are coercion/surveillance, cooptation, and cult of personality?
Political violence by non state actors who largely accept traditional rules of war and target the state.
What is guerrilla warfare?
A state with low autonomy and low capacity, to the point where state structures break down.
What is a failed state?
A sovereign state encompassing one dominant nation that it claims to embody and represent.
What is the nation-state?
The promotion of freedom.
What are civil liberties?
Two forms of co-optation.
What are corporatism and clientelism?
Model that states that revolutions are less a function of specific conditions than of the gap between actual conditions and expectations.
What is the relative deprivation model?