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100
This subfield of political science is both a subject of study and a method of study.
What is comparative politics?
100
This term has several definitions, including this one from Almond and Verba (1995): “a set of specifically political orientations – attitudes toward the political system and its parts, and attitudes toward the role of the self in the system”.
What is political culture?
100
A high degree of this in society is believed to be detrimental to the development of democracy.
What is inequality?
100
The method by which voters make a choice between different options.
What is an electoral system?
100
A body of men [or women] with power to decide a dispute, before whom the parties or advocates of their surrogates present the facts of dispute and cite existent, expressed, primary normative principles.
What is a court?
200
The theory that all knowledge is derived from experience.
What is empiricism?
200
This theory believes that political development is a consequence of economic development, not vice versa.
What is modernization theory?
200
The realm of organized social life that is voluntary and autonomous from the state, wherein citizens can exchange ideas and organize for political action.
What is the civil society?
200
This type of electoral system is also known as a “first past the post” (FPTP) system.
What is a plurality system?
200
A court’s power to invalidate a legislative or executive act on grounds of its unconstitutionality.
What is judicial review?
300
This shift in the discipline of political science that included a desire to use methods from the natural sciences.
What is the behavioral revolution?
300
This theory argues that underdevelopment and poverty in the developing world were a direct result of the expansion of world capitalism.
What is dependency theory?
300
The least stable type of transition from authoritarian rule, where an opposition force causes the regime to collapse and democracy is implemented.
What is replacement?
300
Voter turnout is generally much higher in nations that have this type of electoral system.
What is a proportional representation system?
300
This type of territorial arrangement is characterized by the concentration of powers in the hands of the central government.
What is a unitary system?
400
This concept has many different definitions, including "a method for choosing political leadership", and "a governing system that has some form of political equality among the people".
What is democracy?
400
The belief in the establishment and protection of the nation state as the highest political goal is known as what?
What is nationalism?
400
This phenomenon can be described as the “process by which events, decisions and activities in one part of the world can come to have significant consequences … in quite distant parts of the globe”.
What is globalization?
400
Government efficiency, the representativeness of the entire populace, and checks and balances are key benefits of what executive system?
What is presidentialism?
400
In this type of federal territorial system, states are nearly equal in power to components of the federal government.
What is dual federalism?
500
This research method compares very similar cases which differ only on the dependent variable, or outcome.
What is the Similar Systems Design?
500
Max Weber described this concept as a “subjective belief” in “common descent”, regardless of blood relationships.
What is ethnicity?
500
A large occupation force and a clear message of sustained, long-term occupation to back the new state are two key criteria for the success of this kind of transition to democracy.
What is imposed democracy?
500
In this type of executive branch government, committees play a relatively weak role in the legislative process.
What is parliamentarism?
500
This type of model for trial courts is used in most of the world, but not in the U.S.
What is the inquisitorial model?