Security vs Anarchy
The ability to protect, preserve, or maintain something of value.
What is security?
Groups that organize people with roughly similar aims and opinions to elect candidates to public office
Political parties
A legislature with two chambers.
What is bicameral legislature?
The judicial system
What is an example of a political structure?
What is a revolution?
Coordinated group activity designed to achieve a common goal that individuals acting on their own could not otherwise attain
What is collective action?
Deep-rooted social, economic, or cultural divides that shape political party systems and voting behavior
What is social cleavages theory?
Electoral system in which political parties are assigned a number of seats in the legislature based on the percentage of voters who chose each party.
What is proportional representation?
Type of government in which power is divided between the national and state layer.
What is Federalism?
This theorist wrote about the panopticon in relation to government.
Who is Michel Foucault?
The absence of any kind of overarching authority or hierarchy.
What is anarchy?
French, Spanish national revolutions AND Industrial Revolution
What is a cause of the formation of European political parties?
Voters rank their preferences of candidates and it requires a majority of the vote to win.
What is an alternative party system?
Makes it purposefully difficult for the United States government to infringe on the rights of its citizens.
What is separation of power?
Massive progovernment demonstrations that take place in authoritarian regimes
What is preference falsification?
The key variable of study in Political Science
What is power?
Produced Materialists-Postmaterialists cleavages.
What is a “silent revolution”?
Proportional representation tends to produce this type of party system
What is a multiparty system?
The political aspect of the human nature of the local populace
Voting feature that only exists in the United States.
What is primary season?
The essence of government
AND
X author claims this to be true.
What is collective action?
AND
Who is Van Belle?
Agriculture/Fishing/Farmers and regional groups were affected which resulted in agrarian parties.
What is the urban-rural cleavage?
Countries that use a single-member district model requiring a plurality of the vote to win almost always produce a two party system.
What is Duverger’s Law?
“the system of empirical beliefs, expressive symbols, and values, which defines the situation in which political action takes place.”
What is political culture? **According to Sydney Verba
A government led by the many
What is a polity? (a good form)
What is a democracy? (a perverted form).