Vocab 1 Column 2

Question 1

Constructivism

Answer 1

Political identities are malleable. Suggests that we think of identity as an evolving political process.

ex) French and German people differed from national beliefs that originated recently.

Question 2

Gender

Answer 2

Distinguishes the characteristics between men and women

ex) Women are born to become mothers and men are born to become a father

Question 3

Liberal Political Interests

Answer 3

An attitude favoring gradual political change

ex) Liberals usually aspire for political change, they want to go forward in political matters. Bernie Sanders.

Question 4

Conservative Political Interests

Answer 4

An attitude that favors preserving things are way they are, or even reversing recent political changes.

ex) Donald trump is an extreme conservative.

Question 5

Social Movement

Answer 5

Organized, sustained, and collective efforts that make claims on behalf of members of a group.

ex) LGBT

Question 6

Head of State

Answer 6

A person who represents a country. This person is usually the head of the government in a country.

ex) Barack Obama of the United States

Question 7

Oligarchy

Answer 7

A small group of people, usually the political elite, decides who should be a leader of a country.

ex) Ancient Rome

Question 8

Single-Party Regime

Answer 8

A country that is ruled by one political party. Only one party exists and the making of new ones is forbidden

ex) China

Question 9

Military Regime

Answer 9

A non-democratic system ruled by top members of the armed forces

ex) First Junta

Question 10

Junta

Answer 10

A group of leaders of a military regime

ex) the Russian media refers to the Ukrainian interim government as a junta

Question 11

Theocracy

Answer 11

A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god

ex) Saudi Arabia

Question 12

Personalistic Regime

Answer 12

Political power passes within the dictator’s family.

ex) Ancient Rome starting with Augustus

Question 13

Regime Change

Answer 13

The replacement of one administration or government by another, especially by means of military force

ex) Russian Revolution

Question 14

Neighborhood Effect

Answer 14

Explains the tendency of a person to vote in a certain way based on the influences of the people living in the the same neighborhood or land area

ex) Donald Trump is the top candidate for the state of Iowa

Question 15

Class Consciousness

Answer 15

awareness of one’s place in a system of social classes

ex) Someone who knows that they are a part of the middle class

Question 16

Cultural Identity

Answer 16

Part of a person’sself-perception and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality or any kind of social group that has its own distinct culture.

ex) The way people dress, type of food thats eaten, the way people wear their hair etc.

Question 17

Race

Answer 17

A category of people who share biologically transmitted traits

ex) “White” “African American” “Latino”

Question 18

Ethnicity

Answer 18

A shared cultural heritage

ex) “Mexican” “Swedish” “Russian”

Question 19

Political Cleavage

Answer 19

National, ethnic, and religious divisions that affect political allegiances and policies

ex) State v Church or Land v Industry

Question 20

Primordialism

Answer 20

The argument which contends that nations are ancient, natural phenomena

ex) The Rwanda Genocide. The Hutu group felt that they should kill their ethnic neighbor, the Tutsi, because of ethnic differences that made the Hutu “better”

Question 21

Interest Groups

Answer 21

A group, loosely or tightly organized, that is encourages or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected

ex) National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)

Question 22

Pluralism

Answer 22

A system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist.

ex) The city of Bethlehem where people from all religions coexist

Question 23

Corporatism

Answer 23

An ideology where society and economy of a country should be organized into major interest groups and representatives of those interest groups settle any problems through negotiation and joint agreement

ex) Ancient Greece developed early concepts of corporatism

Question 24

Political Party

Answer 24

A group of people who come together to participate in elections and hold power in the government

ex) The United State’s Democratic and Republican parties

Question 25

Party System

Answer 25

A system of government with political parties

ex) The United States

Question 26

Coalition Government

Answer 26

A cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that coalition

ex) The UK parliamentary system

Question 27

Political Violence

Answer 27

Violence that is politically motivated

ex) The Holocaust

Question 28

Revolutions

Answer 28

A forcible overthrow of government in favor of a new system

ex) The Revolutionary War of the US

Question 29

Civil War

Answer 29

A war between citizens of the same country

ex) El Salvador’s Civil War

Question 30

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Answer 30

A quantitative measure of a nation’s total economic activity

ex) 24 billion = El Salvador’s GDP

Question 31

Political Economy

Answer 31

Political economy is the interplay between economics, law and politics, and how institutions develop in different social and economic systems

ex) Every country in the world