What is Politics?
Political Potpourri
Ideas, Ideologies, and Isms
Utopias and States
Constitutions and Democracy
100

This is how Harold Lasswell defined politics.

What is "Who Gets What, When, and How?"

100

This subfield of political science studies how nation-states interact with each other.

What is International Relations?

100

When the government has no active role, this French term applies to a capitalist system.

What is "Laissez-Faire?" 

100

This German sociologist claimed that the states as an instrument of force.  

Who is Max Weber?

100

Constitutions that are written down with sections are known as this term.

What is codified? 

200

Organizations where governmental power is exercised are often known as by this term.

What are institutions?

200

Using historical or narrative accounts in research is known as this term.

What is Qualitative Analysis?

200

Supporters of this ideological belief support a progressive society based on fairness and equality.

What is Liberalism?

200

The Police Power centers on state regulation of behavior in four areas. Name them.

What is Health, Safety, Welfare, and Morals?

200

Basing congressional representation solely on state population was a central feature of this plan at the Constitutional Convention.

What is the Virginia Plan?

300

People in authoritarian systems without rights or freedoms are known as this collective term.

What are subjects? 

300

The right to rule based on laws and elections is known as this type of legitimacy.

What is Rational-Legal Legitimacy? 

300

An "ism" that believes the State is undesirable, harmful, and unnecessary is known as this term.

What is Anarchism?

300

David Easton, a famous Behaviorialist, designed this process to understand how the state operates.

What is the Political System? 

300

These were a series of 85 essays written to support adoption of the Constitution.

What are The Federalist Papers

400

This theory states that individuals are rational and self-interested with sincere preferences.

What is Rational Choice Theory?

400

This system of government includes state and local government delegating power and authority to a central government.

What is a Confederal System? 

400

Equality of men and women through reform is known as type of feminism.

What is Liberal Feminism? 

400

Territorial boundaries acknowledged by other states and the international system are defined by this concept.

What is External Sovereignty?

400

The Bill of Rights represents this many amendments to the Constitution.

What is ten? 

500

The elite rule in this type of government.

What is an aristocracy? 

500

Known as "layer-cake federalism," this type of federalism has national and state governments in their own sphere of influence.  

What is Dual Federalism? 

500

North Korea and Cuba are country case examples of this governmental type.

What are socialist countries?

500

Hierarchy and organization define this Weberian characteristic of the State.

What is Bureaucracy? 

500

This type of constitutional powers are given by the Constitution in Article 1.  

What are enumerated powers?  

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