Build that State!
Generally considered the defining feature of the state, per Weber
What is the monopoly of legitimate violence?
Regime stability relies on both of these types of institutions
What are Formal and Informal institutions?
The core function of political parties
What is reducing the cost of democracy?
These are core social divisions that structure political competition.
What are Cleavages?
These make up the legal basis for the EU and its institutions.
What is the acquis communautaire?
In bellicist theory, the driver of state formation
What is war?
Dahl's solution to the unrealistic goal of democracy
What is Polyarchy?
This type of political party often struggles to respond to new issues
What are Mainstream parties?
The industrial revolution is said to be the source of these two social cleavages.
What are the Urban vs Rural and Owner vs Worker cleavages?
This is the only EU institution that can initiate legislation
What is the European Commission?
The two types of legitimacy associated with state-building
What are Internal and External legitimacy?
This regime type often results from a coup d'éta
What is a Military Regime?
Party families are often referred to as having these types of origins
What are Cleavage origins?
Downs's (1957) theory of party competition is an extension of this economic theory of behavior.
What is Rational Choice Theory?
In 2013 this became the latest country to accede to the EU
What is Croatia?
This event is described as the birth of the modern state
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
These regimes were long considered transitional regime types
What are Hybrid Regimes?
According to Duverger, these two institutional choices invariably lead to a two-party system
What are Single-Member Districts and Plurality Representation?
According to Downs (1957), this distribution of voter preferences would lead to a multi-party system.
What is a multi-modal distribution?
The creation of the Schengen zone is an example of this type of integration
What is negative integration?
The key independent variable in Anna Gryzmala-Busse’s (2024) analysis of territorial fragmentation
What is Papal Conflict?
Wolfgang Merkel describes this relationship between institutions such as Horizontal accountability and the Effective power to govern
What is Mutual Embeddedness?
According to Strom, political parties utilize these strategies in combination
What are policy-, office- and vote-seeking strategies?
According to Lipset and Rokkan (1967) the core function of political parties is this.
What is Opposition?
This report set a three stage plan for the creation of the Euro/Eurozone
What is the Werner Report?