Terms
Themes of This Course
Participation and Civil Society
Political Theory
Random
100
This term describes the study of the interaction between the state and the economy. How the state and political processes affect the economy and how the organization of the economy affects political processes.
What is political economy?
100
This theme would be most concerned with the changing design of governments around the world
Theme 1: A globalizing world of states
100
This aspect of political participation is measured by how much people believe that the government will respond to its citizens.
What is external efficacy?
100
This term defines a state's claims to exercise authority and effective control of political decisions within a given territory?
What is sovereignty?
100
This term describes Nigeria's inability to provide basic of public services
What is a failed state?
200
This term describes whether or not citizens believe their government will respond to them or if they will be able to effect their govt.
What is the political efficacy?
200
The globalizing world of states theme discusses these two levels of interaction in the shaping of politics of all countries.
What are the national and international levels?
200
This term designates official membership within a state by a member of the population.
What is citizenship?
200
This type of statement is based on emotion and not based on statistics.
What is a normative statement?
200
This term describes groups that pursues goals outside of government such as publicizing issues, lobbying, making demands on government, and providing direct services.
What are NGOs?
300
This term refers to the shared definition of a group that derives from its members' common interests, experiences, and solidarities.
What is collective identity?
300
This theme is going to be focused on the democratization of various countries around the world and how citizens around the world desire higher levels of democracy
What is a theme 3: the Democratic idea?
300
This term refers to the aggregation of religious organizations, labor unions, women's groups, etc.
What is civil society?
300
This theory of political science focuses on different decisions made by the members of the institutions within a state or decisions made by the citizens
What is behaviorism?
300
This term identifies a political scientist who studies the similarities and differences in the domestic politics of various countries.
What is a comparativist?
400
A regime in which citizens exercise substantial control over choice of political leaders and the decisions made by their governments
What is a democracy?
400
This unit describes a group whose members share common worldviews and aspirations determined largely by occupation, income, and wealth.
What is a social class?
400
What is the most common form of conventional participation in the political process.
What is voting in an election?
400
This is the general question that normative political scientists ask when beginning their research.
What should it be?
400
This organization regulates trade among its many member states.
What is the WTO?
500
This term describes the use of power, particularly by the state, to allocate some kind of valued resource among competing groups
What is distributional politics?
500
Theme 2: Governing the Economy is partially concerned with approaches to promoting economic growth that seeks to minimize environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources.
What is sustainable development?
500
This type of democratization happens when one country turns democratic, then others follow.
What is regional demostration?
500
This type of study takes two different types of governments or states and attempts to find correlations or similarities despite their similarities.
What is MDS?
500
This term describes the institutional arrangements that define the relationships between executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government and between the national and subnational units such as states in the United States.
What is institutional design?
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