The European Union Institutions
The only popularly elected body of the European Union
What is the European Parliament?
What are economic, political, and social?
The party family most commonly associated with postmaterial values.
What is the Green party family?
The country currently undergoing EU Infringement proceedings?
What is Poland?
The best Thai restaurant in town.
What is Cham Thai?
The judicial body of the European Union.
What is the European Court of Justice/ Court of Justice of the European Union?
The truth value of the statement that attitudes towards globalization have become substantially more negative over the past 30 years.
What is false?
What is nativism?
The leader of the Leave campaign in the UK.
Who is Nigel Farage?
The date of the final exam in this course.
When is December 7th?
The organization that pooled control over two critical resources for industrialization and war following WWII.
What is the European Coal and Steel Community?
What is the European middle class?
What is the scarcity hypothesis?
This leader is often considered the founder of the contemporary radical right in the Netherlands?
Who is Pim Fortuyn?
The city in which the COP26 meeting is/was being held?
What is Glasgow?
The body made up of heads of national states that provides broad goals and instructions regarding what legislation should be written.
What is the European Council?
The process defined by an issue becoming more salient in politics, positions on the issue becoming more polarized, and many actors in politics discussing the issue.
What is politicization?
The crucial norm in liberal democracies that parties/individuals in power should exercise self-restraint in the use of their formal powers.
What is forebearance?
This leader used his party's supermajority in parliament to rewrite his country's constitution to systematically favor his party.
Who is Viktor Orban?
What is the building and room number of my office?
Where is Hamilton 300?
The decision rule used for normal legislation in the Commission and Council of Ministers?
Nigel thinks his own country's government is doing a really bad job (3/10), but he thinks that the EU is doing slightly better (4/10). Greta, on the other hand, thinks her country's government rocks (7/10) and the EU is a little bit lack luster (5/10). Which theory we discussed in class would predict that Greta is more likely to be Eurosceptic than Nigel even though Greta rates the EU higher in absolute terms than Nigel?
What is Benchmarking Theory?
The explanation for why the aggregate share of postmaterialists has been increasing over time and why the elderly are more materialist than the young in European societies.
What is a cohort effect/generational replacement?
The country that has had two referendums on leaving the European Union.
What is the United Kingdom?
The only constituency (electoral district) in which the Green party wins?
What is Brighton Pavilion?