Methods
This kind of variable, also known as the "causal variable", causes the outcome of interest.
What is an independent variable?
This type of authoritarianism generally features a collection of wealthy elites
What is oligarchy?
This term describes the process of countries becoming more democratic.
What is democratization?
This form of political violence targets civilians to spread fear beyond the immediate targets
What is terrorism?
What is a peasant?
This qualitative methodology investigates a single instance of a phenomenon closely, rather than comparing two or more instances.
What is a case study?
Hybrid regimes are also often called this by political scientists
What is competitive authoritarianism?
This theory attempts to explain the empirical observation that democracies almost never go to war against one another.
What is democratic peace theory?
What is suicide bombing?
This international institution gives out loans to countries in need, but often conditions these loans on difficult demands for recipients to restructure their economies
What is the IMF?
The explanation for how x leads to y in a given theory.
What is the causal mechanism?
This term, rooted in opposition to Napoleon Bonaparte, is often used to describe a governing military council
What is a junta?
This type of democratic system is generally better at representing minority opinions in government and permitting more than two parties.
What is parliamentary or proportional representation?
This profession is significantly more likely to engage in Islamic terrorism
What is engineering?
Also called "dutch disease" this phenomenon occurs in countries that center their economies on a single export, usually oil
What is the resource curse?
This kind of comparison takes two generally different cases with similar outcomes to isolate one causal factor they have in common.
What is a "most different" design?
This authoritarian leader is one of two non-monarchs in the world to inherit their position through patrilineal succession.
Who is Bashar al-Assad or Kim Jong Un?
This method of measuring democracy focuses not on institutions, but on the relationship between public opinion and public policy
What is outcome?
This kind of civil war/insurgency seeks to take control of the government, rather than secede or drive out a colonizing power.
What is center-seeking?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This Keynesian economic ideology dominated the world after 1945 until it was broadly replaced by neoliberalism in the late 1970s and 1980s
What is embedded liberalism?
The term statisticians use to denote the number of cases in a given study
What is n?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This principle of Marxist-Leninist organizations is how one-party systems maintain party discipline while permitting limited input from the rank-and-file.
What is democratic centralism?
Conceived by Abdullah Ocalan, this ideology constitutes the founding idea of the primarily Kurdish autonomous region in northwestern Syria.
What is democratic confederalism?
This strategy of terrorism, according to scholars Kydd and Walter, seeks to display trustworthiness to a terrorist organization's own population
What is provocation?
This philosopher is widely regarded as the first political economist
Who is Karl Marx?