POLS 2200 Final Question and answers 100% correct
"Root source" of violence - correct answer a necessary condition for violent actions to take place, and a presumption that changes in the institutional structure would eliminate the motivation for this violence.
Politcal Violence - correct ...
POLS 2200 Final Study Guide (Notes)
Questions with complete solution
Politics - correct answer ✔The struggle in any group for power that will give
one or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group.
State - correct answer ✔An organization that maintains a monopoly of
violence over a territory
Key Elements of States - correct answer ✔Possess sovereignty
Highly institutionalized
Why states instead of other organizations? - correct answer ✔States
promote economic development
States encourage technological innovation
States create domestic stability
States encourage interaction and the emergence of shared identity
How to stay in power? - correct answer ✔Fear
Rewards
Legitimacy (most stable)
Types of legitimacy - correct answer ✔Traditional (out of habit)
Charismatic (ideas from leaders)
Rational-Legal (laws and procedures)
Symmetric Federalism - correct answer ✔All regions have the same powers
, Asymmetric Federalism - correct answer ✔Different regions have different
powers
Capacity - correct answer ✔Ability to wield power to carry out basic tasks
Mobilization of resources
Autonomy - correct answer ✔Ability to wield power independently of the
public
Relates to sovereignty
Identity - correct answer ✔Ethnic and National
Identity and the State - correct answer ✔Citizenship
The Nation-State
Ethnicity - correct answer ✔Specific attributes or societal institutions that
make one group of people culturally different from others. EX: Race in the US
Nation - correct answer ✔A group that desires self-government through an
independent state.
Nation-state - correct answer ✔A state encompassing one dominant nation
that it claims to embody and represent
Citizenship - correct answer ✔An individual's relationship to that state
Citizens swear allegiance to the state
The state, in turn provides rights to its citizens
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