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Official lang. of ISR
What are Hebrew and Arabic?
The general, often used categories of explanations for why countries/people groups are different
What are cultural (like culture/the beliefs under which we live-culture, tradition, history, behavior, beliefs, ideas), structural (like societal institutions/the conditions under which we live-econ. conditions, demographics, materialist factors, tech, geography, natural resources, and climate), and institutional (govt/politics-the laws under which we live-laws, policies, political decisions, and organizations)?
Methods in this class
What are also useful for comparative polysci and the other branches of physic and other social sciences and even just other plain sciences?
Saying that two groups are different
WHAT IS WRONG???!!! (and should say how they are different and in what direction-who has more X as well)?
1994
When did ISR and Jordan sign a peace deal?
ISR Pres.
Who is mostly ceremonial, so has parliamentary system of govt but appoints PM from a parliament that the people have just elected, either the plurality or close to plurality it just has to be one that can put together a coalition govt (so some call ISR's system semi-presidential because of this power)?
The central question in comparative politics
What is almost every question in comparative politics is a version of this and what explains the difference between these two countries or groups of people where they are similar in all these ways except they are different in this one way, why are they different in that way (comparisons will not always be explicit)?
Fundamental Xist
Who says that nothing else matters in explaining a difference between 2 groups except X (institutions, culture, or structures)?
X plays a role in Y
What is wrong???!!! (and should be replaced by X plays a significant role in Y or something like that)?
Arafat on terrorist attacks
Who promised to stop them on ISR?
ISR threshold to keep fringy parties out
What is 2%?
Famous ex.s of people from each type of general categories of explanations for why things are different
Who were Max Weber (a culturalist, believed Protestantism led to material success), Karl Marx (a structuralist, believed economic conditions explained history), Plato/Socrates (the Socrates character in The Republic) (an institutionalist, believed that certain laws and certain people as rulers would make society just), and Lijphart (also an institutionalist, believed that type of govt important in how well societies do)?
Author
Who often tips his hand as clearly one of the three categories (culturalist, fundamentalist, or institutionalist)?
West Bank
Arabs in the ISR that almost everyone except the Arabs recognize
Gun violence numbers/trick
What is GER 381
Australia 65
JPN 39
CAN 165
US 11K but when fixed
GER 5
Australia 4.8
JPN 3.1
CAN 0.3
US 36.6?
What is trying to compare US and FRA (implicitly comparing everything to FRA) since FRA Rev. led to FRA being much more unstable that US Rev. did for it/why was US new form of govt so successful?
Economic institutions
Golda Meir
Who was PM in 1960s and '70s?
Federal laws in Tocqueville
What is his word for federalism?
GDP
What is the total monetary value of all goods and services produced in the country over the course of a given year?
GDP per capita (GDP/capita)
What is what 1 person in that country roughly spends in a given year?