Resolving Collective Action Programs
Social movements and Interest Groups
Political Parties
Political Violence
Revolutions, Suicide and Genocide
100

This concept comes from a collective action program where individuals reap the benefits that collective action provides after others have invested time, energy or money to mobilize in the first place

Free ride

100

These are organized, sustained and collective efforts that make claims on behalf of members of a group

Social movements

100

This is composed of a party's core supporters among voters

Party in the electorate

100

When states use violence to achieve political goals

Interstate warfare

100

When small groups of insurgents use irregular military tactics, such as sabotage and ambushes

Guerilla war

200

These are offered by organizations to generate collective action

Private goods

200

This is the way a country's political system shapes, promotes, checks, or absorbs the challenges it confronts from organized civil society

Political opportunity structure

200

Members in the electorate and the party organization are relatively more important and play a more active role in determining the party's policy commitments and ideological profile in these

Mass parties

200
An armed combat within the boundaries of a sovereign state between parties that are subject to common authority at the start of hostilities

Civil war

200

A type of terrorism where individuals are aware that they are unlikely to survive

Suicide terrorism

300

An environmental NGO based in Brazil that has members to lobby Brazil's government to preserve old-growth forests

SOS Mata Atálantica

300

A pattern of interest group mobilization in which the state plays an active role in organizing groups and mediating between them

Corporatism

300

This is the typical pattern of political competition and cooperation between parties within a state

Party system

300

This Republic was colonized by Belgium in 1885

Democratic Republic of Congo

300

In this country between 500k and 1 million Tutsis were murdered in a genocide

Rwanda

400

Using the use of force or threat of force

Coercion

400

The most important factor in the promotion of this type of grouping is the existence of a group of people who share a common, concrete political interesting

Interest Groups

400

This is a type of government that is comprised of several parties that hold at least one of the cabinet ministries

coalition government

400

When individuals are forced to take up arms for their nation

Coercive recruitment

400

Popular support for and against violence is required in this type of war

Revolution

500

This politician's unsuccessful run for presidency brought in more than $200 million in relatively small contributions from more than 2 million people

Bernie Sander's

500

In 1986, Ecuador's indigenous peoples joined together to form this

Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador

500

Until the rise of a nationalist party, this nation state's economic class had been the dominant form of political identity in the political system

United Kingdom

500

This group of rebels fought against the government in the Sri Lankan civil war

Tamil Tigers

500

In this country, communists defeated the Nationalist Party, and made sure that only loyal party officials occupied government positions

China