Thinking like a Political Scientist
A value judgement.
What is a normative statement?
A group of people who share a sense of belonging and who often have a common language, culture, religion, race, ethnicity, political identity, or set of traditions or aspirations.
What is a Nation?
A type of government, such as liberal democracy or authoritarian.
what is a regime?
A measure of state strength.
What is fragile State Index.
An overthrow of a regime based on widespread popular support.
What is Revolution?
Examining the same phenomenon in several cases and reaching conclusions
What is Comparative Method?
The right to rule based on a society’s long-standing patterns and practices
What is Traditional legitimacy?
A political system in which a state’s power is legally and constitutionally divided among more than one level of government.
what is a Federal System?
A measure of how corrupt a system is to be.
What is Corruption Perception Index
Where the law is applied arbitrarily, and government officials are not subject to the same rules and penalties as citizens.
What is Rule by law?
Observations made using statistical techniques, often conveyed through charts, graphs, tables, and maps.
what is quantitative data?
The right to rule based on personal virtue, heroism, or other extraordinary characteristics.
What is charismatic legitimacy?
A system with free and fair elections in which a wide array of civil rights and civil liberties is protected.
What is a liberal democracy?
A Measure of income inequality within a country.
What is the Gini Index?
Decline in the quality of democracy, including a decrease in citizen participation, rule of law, transparency, and accountability.
What is Democratic backsliding?
An apparent connection between variables.
Granting of powers by the central government to regional governments.
what is Devolution?
A system in which elections may be marred by fraud and the state protects some civil rights and liberties but restricts others.
Illiberal Democracy (or flawed/ hybrid)
A citizen’s belief that his or her actions can impact the government.
What is political efficacy?
Reading and analyzing text
what is source analysis?
The legitimate power a state has over people within its territory.
What is Authority?
A political ideology that emphasizes domination of the state over citizens. The government has complete control over citizens’ lives.
what is a totalitarian state?
An aggregate measure of life expectancy, education, and per capita income.
What is HDI (Human Development Index?)
An overthrow of government by a small number of people, often military leaders.