PSC 1001 Final Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025
politics - ANSWERSthe method of making authoritative public choices from private preferences; choices determine rights and power, what will be enacted
comparative politics - ANSWERSthe systematic search for answers to political questions abo...
politics - ANSWERSthe method of making authoritative public choices from private preferences; choices
determine rights and power, what will be enacted
comparative politics - ANSWERSthe systematic search for answers to political questions about how
people around the world make and contest authoritative public choices
hypothesis - ANSWERSan argument linking cause to effect
falsifiable - ANSWERSthe possibility that a hypothesized relationship can be shown to be incorrect
comparative method - ANSWERSa way to examine patterns of facts or events to narrow down what is
important in terms of building a convincing comparative politics argument
method of agreement - ANSWERScompares and contrasts cases with different attributes but shared
outcomes, seeking the one attribute these cases share in common to attribute causality
method of difference - ANSWERScompares and contrasts cases with the same attributes but different
outcomes, and determines causality by finding an attribute that is present when an outcome occurs but
that is absent in similar cases when the outcome does not occur
correlation - ANSWERSa measure of the observed association between 2 variables
causation - ANSWERSa process or event that produces an observable effect
quantitative research - ANSWERSrelies on statistical data to assess relationships between attributes and
outcomes, analyzing those data using computers. Privileges breadth over depth.
,qualitative research - ANSWERSfocuses on an in-depth understanding of attributes and outcomes.
Privileges depth over breadth
mixed methods research - ANSWERSuses both quantitative and qualitative techniques, in an effort to
build convincing claims about the relationships between attributes and outcomes
state - ANSWERSa political-legal unit with sovereignty over a particular geographic territory and the
population that resides in that territory
sovereignty - ANSWERSultimate responsibility for and legal authority over the conduct of internal affairs,
including a claim to a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force - within territory defined by
geographic borders
failed state - ANSWERSa state where sovereignty over claimed territory has collapsed, or was never
effectively established at all
legitimacy - ANSWERSthe degree to which citizens willingly accept the state's sovereign authority to use
power
collective action problem - ANSWERSa situation wherein each individual has private incentives not to
participate in an action that benefits all members of the group
state of nature - ANSWERSterm coined by Thomas Hobbes to describe an imaginary time before human
beings organized into governments or states for the collective good
social contract - ANSWERSa theoretical political agreement in which everyone agrees to limit their ability
to do as they please in order to achieve some collective benefit
government - ANSWERSthe organization that has the authority to act on behalf of a state and the right
to make decisions that affect everyone in a state
nation - ANSWERSa cultural grouping of individuals who associate with each other based on a
collectively held political identity
, nationalism - ANSWERSa subjective feeling of membership to a nation
society - ANSWERSall organized groups, social movements, interest groups, and individuals who attempt
to remain autonomous from the influence and the authority of the state
feudalism - ANSWERSa form of political organization in which no single political entity or rule held
unambiguous territorial sovereignty and in which political rule involved multiple and often overlapping
lines of authority
democracy - ANSWERSa political system in which the rulers are accountable to the ruled
accountability - ANSWERSa political mechanism that offers citizens regular and realistic opportunities to
remove the rulers from office through peaceful and constitutional means
electorate - ANSWERSa group of citizens eligible to participate in the election of government leaders
universal suffrage - ANSWERSall adult citizens have the right to participate in the electoral process that
selects and removes government leaders
constitution - ANSWERSa set of key principles and laws that structure the extent and distribution of
governmental authority and individual rights by making the rules of the game
unitarism - ANSWERSthe constitution grants the central government exclusive and final authority over
policymaking across the entire national territory
federalism - ANSWERSthe constitution grants 2+ governments overlapping political authority over the
same group of people and same piece of territory
presidential system - ANSWERSa constitutional format in which the executive and legislative branches
enjoy both separation of origin and separation of survival
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