Mixed Key Terms
This statement must: 1) link cause and effect; AND 2) be falsifiable/testable.
Hypothesis
Compares and contrasts cases with different attributes but shared outcomes, seeking the one attribute these cases share in common to attribute causality.
Method of Agreement
A constitutional format (type of democracy) where the executive and legislative branches enjoy both a separation of origin and separation of survival.
Presidential System
Authoritarian Regime
When a state shifts from a non-democracy to a democracy.
Democratization
A political-legal unit with sovereignty over a particular geographic territory and the population that resides in that territory.
The State
This is a key requirement to be considered a "state".
Sovereignty
1) Accountability
2) Participation
3) Contestation
Rules?
A regime in which the government attempts to shape the interests and identities of its citizens by articulating a coherent ideology + extensive efforts to coercively mobilize support for the regime (tight restrictions on social and political pluralism)
Totalitarian Regime
A theory that democracy is a function of the cultural changes that accompany economic growth.
Modernization Theory
The basic form of a state's government.
Regime
Compares and contrasts cases with the same attributes but different outcomes and determines causality by finding an attribute that is present when an outcome occurs but that is absent in similar cases when the outcome does not occur.
Method of Difference
A constitutional format (democratic system) in which the executive and legislative branches have neither separation of origin nor separation of survival.
Parliamentary System
Argues that under capitalist systems, the wealthy exploit the workers and the poor. Focuses on wealth redistribution.
Communism
(regime type mostly associated with this?)
Summarize: Shopping for Parental Rights around the World.
Pay Gap
Child Care
5 Countries?
A situation wherein each individual has private incentives not to participate in an action that benefits all members of the group.
Collective Action Problem
These two components are required for sovereignty.
1) Centralized decision-making
2) Coercion
3)* Legitimacy
An electoral system that distributes seats proportionally to the vote each party recieves.
Proportional Representation
A totalitarian ideology based on racist principles that glorify militarism, violence, nationalism, and the state over individual interests and identities.
Fascism
Summarize: Two articles comparing Nigeria.
Whether it is a "failed state".
What were some of the arguments?
Regimes that combine elements of democracy, such as voting and elections, with non-democractic elements, such as restrictions o political contestation and individual rights.
Illiberal Democarcy
The organization that has the authority to act on behalf of a state and the right to make decisions that affect everyone in a state.
Government
Plurality Rule (FPTP)
A subset of the population that chooses and removes the leader or leaders.
Selectorate
(in which regimes?)
When elements in a country's armed forces overthrow a democratically elected civilian government.
Military Coups
(how does this differ from democratic backsliding?)