midterm 1 review

Question 1

weber definition of state

Answer 1

claims monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory (set of institutions, legitimacy, territory)

Question 2

bureaucracy

Answer 2

set of institutions - policy implementation, security, economic coordination, provision of social services

Question 3

regime characteristics

Answer 3

number and types of actors allowed to access political power, methods of access to political power, procedures of decision making

Question 4

democracy

Answer 4

a system in which parties lose elections

Question 5

modern democracy

Answer 5

indirect rule (representative democracy), accountability, rule of law, checks and balances

Question 6

monarchy

Answer 6

hereditary dynasty - king or queen head of state, democratic or authoritarian
Britain Sweden
Saudi Arabia

Question 7

republic

Answer 7

no hereditary dynasty - president head of state
democratic or authoritarian
US, France,
Vietnam, Iran

Question 8

unitary

Answer 8

central gov sole constitutional sovereignty
France, Italy

Question 9

federal

Answer 9

state’s power constitutionally divided across multiple levels of government
US, Canada, India

Question 10

weberian bureaucracy

Answer 10

division of labor, hierarchy of authority, rules and procedures
impersonal relations, meritocracy and technical competence

Question 11

procedural dimension of democracy

Answer 11

elections, universal sufferage, separation of powers, checks and balances

Question 12

substantive definiton of democracy

Answer 12

quality of democracy

Question 13

capitalism

Answer 13

means of production privately owned, relations of production determine social class

Question 14

communism command economy

Answer 14

state ownership of means of production, Gosplan central planning

Question 15

collective action problem

Answer 15

exception, not the norm
shared interests alone do not lead to collective action

Question 16

political process model

Answer 16

political opportunity structures, resource mobilization, cognitive liberation (idea that change is possible)

Question 17

ethnicity

Answer 17

sense of collective belonging based on various factors

Question 18

nationalism

Answer 18

doctrine that political unit and cultural unit should be congruent

Question 19

plualism society

Answer 19

conflict more likely, violence less likely

Question 20

authoritarian society

Answer 20

conflit less likely, violence more likely

Question 21

essentialism

Answer 21

delocalized states were new, but ethnic or communal animosites were old and deeply rooted

Question 22

instrumentalism

Answer 22

ethnicity neither inherent in human nature nor valuable, useful for gaining political power or drawing resources from the state

Question 23

constructivism

Answer 23

our ethnic and national identities are construct of modern times

Question 24

gramscian approach to civil society

Answer 24

not fully independent of the state, perpetuate ideology, links between states and citizens

Question 24

realism

Answer 24

neighbors kill neighbors to make sure they're not killed in the future

Question 25

facism

Answer 25

power via cult of personality, ideology of extreme subservience to the state

Question 26

mechanisms of authoritarianism

Answer 26

cohersion, co-optation

Question 27

social movements classical model

Answer 27

structural strain leads to disruptive physcological state into a social movement

Question 28

how do social movements emerge - political process model

Answer 28

political opportunity, resource mobilization, cognitive liberation

Question 29

tilly warmaking and state

Answer 29

governments use legitimate monopoly of violence

Question 30

schmidter democracy is and is not

Answer 30

is - system of governance where rulers held accountable for actions is not - more efficient economically or administratively

Question 31

pepinsky

Answer 31

life in authoritarian states pretty normal except for elections

Question 32

muller

Answer 32

despite globalization and rise of universal values, ethnic identities remain powerful force in politics and society ethnic nationalism often arises in response to perceived threats to a group's identity