COMPARATIVE METHOD
SOVEREIGNTY, AUTHORITY, AND POWER
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE
CITIZENS, SOCIETY AND THE STATE
PUBLIC POLICY
100
This is an approach to comparative politics based upon factual statements and statistics.
What is Empirical Data
100
Max Weber defined this as an organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a territory.
What is a State
100
What are the three types of governmental change in Comparative Politics?
What is Reform, Revolution, and Coup d'etats
100
These are divisions out of the realm of politics that have a major impact on policy making
What is Social Cleavages
100
All the goods and services produced by a country's economy in a given year, excluding income citizens and groups earn outside the country
What is GDP Gross Domestic Product
200
The idea that one variable causes or influences another
What is Causation
200
The ability to carry out actions or policies within their borders independently from outside interference is
What is Sovereignty
200
This is the transfer of state-owned property to private ownership.
What is Privatization
200
Operating openly by keeping citizens informed about government operations and political issues
What is transparency
200
The measure of well-being of a countries people by factoring in adult literacy, life expectancy, and educational enrollment with GDP
What is Human Development Index
300
This approach to comparative politics is based upon issues that require value judgements
What is normative
300
This is known as a group of people bound by common political identity
What is Nation
300
They believe in rapid, dramatic changes need to be made in society
What is a Radical
300
These are national and international groups, independent of any state, that pursue policy objectives and foster public participation.
What is a NonGovernmental Organization (NGOs)
300
This organization studies democracy around the world and rates countries.
What is Freedom House
400
A change in one variable coincides with a change in another is called
What is a Correlation
400
This system has both a president and prime minister
What is a Semi-Presidential system
400
What are the three stages of Democratization
What is Authoritarian, Procedural, Substantive
400
Voluntary organizations outside of the state that help people define an advance their own interests.
What is a civil society
400
This attempts to estimate the buying power of income in each country by comparing staples and housing against prices in the U.S.
What is Purchasing Power Parity PPP
500
What are the three classifications we use today to study countries in Comparative politics
What is advanced democracies, Communist and Post Communist and Less Developed and newly Industrializing Countries.
500
This is a system where the state provides specific benefits or favors to a single person or small group in return for public support.
What is Patron-Clientelism
500
Countries that have democratice procedures in place but have significant restrictions on them are referred to as
What is an illiberal democracy
500
All policy making power is concentration in one geographic location
What is a Unitary government
500
The mathematical formula that measures economic inequality in a country.
What is the GINI Index
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