This involves the process of making and contesting authoritative public decisions.
What is Politics
100
This what any state claims to monopolize in any territory.
What is legitimate means of violence/force/coercion?
100
In a democracy, the scope of the electorate must be defined by this principle
What is universal suffrage?
100
In a presidential system, the president is a dual executive and is both the head of government and this.
What is the head of state?
100
This was the major threat to democracy in the 1930s.
What was the rise of fascist dictators?
200
Comparativists formulate this as a tentative answer to a given research question.
What is a hypothesis?
200
A warlord might have force but not this, since the state alone possesses it.
What is legitimacy?
200
This scholar has provided the most accepted definition of a democracy.
Who is Robert Dahl?
200
In some parliamentary systems, this is an individual who leads the party which won the most votes in a given election and is tasked to initiate the formation of a new government.
Who is a formateur?
200
This is a small subset of the population that chooses and removes the leader or leaders in a non-democratic regime.
What is the selectorate?
300
This is the exemplar method in any scientific field of study.
What is the experimental method?
300
In Hobbes's Leviathan, this is the solution to the collective action problem posed in the state of nature.
What is the social contract?
300
Contestation is insufficient in a democratic regime, it must co-exist with this principle which allows the accountability of the rulers to the ruled.
What is participation?
300
In a presidential system, this results when the executive and legislative branches confront each other in a given policy because of opposing positions.
What is gridlock?
300
This is the nature of relationship between the leader and the selectorate in a non-democratic regime
What is reciprocal accountability?
400
While two variables are correlated, they do not necessarily show this kind of relationship.
What is a causal relationship/causation?
400
Unlike the concrete institution of the government, this is a subjective entity that rests upon a shared sense of solidarity and belongingness.
What is the nation?
400
This is the problem of balancing effective and limited government.
What is Madison's dilemma?
400
In a parliamentary system, the incumbent government can be dissolve itself by calling for new elections or if it this vote is passed by a majority of parliament.
What is a vote of no-confidence?
400
Social and political pluralism is heavily restricted in this non-democratic regime type.
What is a totalitarian regime?
500
Arguments in comparative politics are based on this
What are patterns of similarities and differences across the world?
500
According to the Failed States Index, this has consistently topped the rankings as the worst state in the world.
What is Somalia?
500
One scholar defined democracy as the regime where _______ lose elections.
What are political parties?
500
Some democracies has this electoral system to ensure that winners are elected by 50%+1 of the voters.
What is the majority/run-off electoral system?
500
This is a non-democratic regime that fuses religious principles in governance.