Week 3

Question 1

What are the root causes for IR outcomes?

Answer 1

Ideas, institutions & Material interests

Question 2

Marxist revisionism

Question 3

Normative beliefs

Answer 3

are assumptions or beliefs about how the world ought to be
or what ought to be done

Question 4

Causal beliefs

Answer 4

are assumptions or beliefs about how the world actually is,
including about cause-effect relations in ‘reality’

Question 5

Worldviews’

Answer 5

are systems of thought that encompass both normative and
causal beliefs.

Question 6

Material positions

Answer 6

Geography, natural resources, technology, income

Question 7

Institutions

Answer 7

formal & informal organisations, and routine patterns of behaviour

Question 8

Ideas

Answer 8

Idealogies

Question 9

Political actors

Answer 9

Voter, leader, bureacrat

Question 10

Decision making is influenced by

Answer 10

Preferences, strategies and political power

Question 11

Material interests influence political power. How?

Answer 11

By shaping the bargaining position an actor has

Question 12

Institutions can shape political developments by?

Answer 12

power, preferences , strategies , interaction