Political Economy
Unlike the manufacturing sector, this part of the economy is very difficult to make substantially more efficient.
What is the service sector?
The only body of the EU that is directly elected.
The party family that emerged from the religious cleavage.
Who are the Christian Democrats?
While the Queen of England is the Head of State, Boris Johnson is the ______.
What is head of government?
When is December 7th?
The gap between the average income of college-educated workers and high school-educated workers.
What is the education premium?
An electoral system that typically results in a two-party system.
What is first-past-the-post with single member districts.
The smallest number of parties capable of forming a government in a parliamentary system.
What is a minimal winning coalition?
The Dutch radical right politician who was assassinated prior to the election in which his party became the second largest in the parliament.
Who is Pim Fortuyn?
The location of the final exam.
Where is in the classroom OR on Zoom?
The term describing a welfare state program that is as old as its recipients.
What is mature?
Countries in which there are constitutionally guaranteed subnational regions with authority over specific policy areas.
What are federal countries?
The hypothesis that personalities and political dispositions crystalize in late adolescence and early adulthood and remain mostly stable thereafter.
What is the socialization hypothesis?
The French President who repeatedly vetoed the UK's entrance into the European Community.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
The coverage of the exam.
What is cumulative?
The type of welfare state characterized by medium decommodification and medium stratification
What is the Christian democratic/continental welfare state?
The type of democracy characterized by the concentration of power in the hands of a few winners.
What is majoritarian democracy?
The type of issues characterized not by position but by competence (ex. economic growth, low crime, anti-corruption)
What are valence issues?
The modern country whose language and history were at least somewhat constructed by Austrian state action following the Ausgleich of 1867.
What is Ukraine?
What is 4pm to 7pm?
The type of capitalism characterized by patient capital and non-market solutions to coordination problems.
What is a coordinated market economy (CME)
The set of institutions that maintain a monopoly over the use of legitimate violence in a defined geographic area.
What is the state?
According to the calculus of voting, the action that all voters should take.
What is abstention?
The palace, constructed by Louis XIV, that played a crucial role in the centralization of the French state.
What is Versailles?
What is multiple choice?