Poly Sci Midterm
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- balkanization
- broken up into unreasonable small units
- Law
- that which must be obeyed under penalties
- paradigm
- model or pattern for other cases
- cynical
- untrusting and suspicious, especially of government
- Scholarship
- intellectual arguments supported by reason and evidence
- sedition
- incitement to public disorder or to over throw the state
- sovereignty
- a national governments being boss on its own turf, the last word in law in that country
- minister
- head of ministry,equivalen to US departmental secretary
- administration
- executibes appointed by US president, equivalent to european government
- discipline
- a field of study often represented by an academic department or major
- Political Generations
- theory that great events of young adulthood permenently color political views
- Bench
- the office of a judge
- land
- german federalist first- order civil division
- Warren Court
- the liberal activist , US supreme court under chief justice Earl Warren
- dependent variable
- facto that changes under the impact of the independendt variable
- independent variable
- factor you think influeneces or causes something to happen
- life peer
- distingueshed briton named to house of lords for his or her life only, not hereditary
- state duma
- russias national legislature-- lower, more important chamber of russian parliament
- based
- based on observable evidence
- lords
- upper weaker chamber of british parliament
- realism
- working with the world as it is and not as we wish it to be , ussully focused on power
- economic rights
- guarantees of adequate material standards of living: the newest and most controversial rights
- human rights
- freedom from government mistreatment such as arrest, torture,jail, and death without due process
- social contract
- theory that individuals join and stay in a civil society as if they had signed a contract
- indict
- to formally charge someone with a crime
- bimodal
- a distribution with two large clusters at the extremes and a small center
- institutionalize
- to make a political relationship permanent
- state of nature
- humans before civilization
- feudalism
- system of political power dispered among layers
- KGB
- soviet committe on state security powerful intelligence and security agency
- quota
- drawing a sample to match categories of the population
- political culture
- the psychology of the nation in regard to politics
- Knesset
- Isreals 120 member unicameral parliament
- Paranoia
- unreasonable suspicion of others
- adversarial
- system bassed on two opposed parties to a dispute
- political institutions
- established and durable authority relationship
- Vote of no Confidence
- vote in parliament to oust government
- pre mier
- france and italy's prime minitser
- pork barrel
- government projects aimed at legislators constituencies, also called earmarks
- absolutism
- post- feudal concentration of power in monarch
- WASP
- White , anglo saxon, protestant
- Bundestag
- lower more important chamber of german parliament
- civil rights
- ability to participate in plitics and society
- Glasnost
- Gorbacher's policy of media openness
- estates general
- old,unused french parliament
- accusatorial
- like adversarial but with a prosecuter accusing a defendent of crimes
- nationalism
- a peoples heightened sense of cultural historical and territorial identity, unity and sometimes greatness
- participatory
- intrest or willingness in taking part of politics
- Versailles
- conference and treaty ending world war 1
- evolve
- slowly develope
- Bar Graph
- stand alone data points comparing categories
- center
- nations capital and its powers
- dissolve
- send a parliament home for new elections
- covariance
- how much two factors change together, indicating how strongly they are related
- portfolio
- ministers assigned ministry
- POSITIVE LAW
- that which is written by humans and accepted over time, the opposite of natural law
- state
- in european, all branched of the national political system: what americans call the govern.
- Higher Law
- that which comes from god
- coalition
- multiparty alliance to form a government
- culture
- human behavior that is learned as opposed to inherited
- new deal
- FDR'S mild welfare programs during depression
- rational
- based on the ability to reason
- presidential systems
- those with seperate election of executive (as opposed o symbolic) president
- monarchy
- hereditary rule by one person
- seperation of powers
- should be distinct and hsould check and balance each other, found in few other governments- US doctrine that branches of governemnt
- republic
- in communist soviet union and yugoslavia federal first - order civil division
- political power
- ability of one person to get another to do something
- log rolling
- legislators mutually supporting each other to get pork barreling bills passed
- irrational
- based on the power of fears and myth to cloud reason
- new federalism
- nixon and reagans progran of returning powers to states
- attentive public
- those citizens who follow politics especially national and international affairs
- legitimacy
- mass feeling that the government's rule if rightful and should be obeyed
- confederation
- political system which components override center
- parliamentary systems
- those with elecion of parliament only which in turn elects prime minister
- Immobilism
- inability of coalition governments to solve major questions
- indigent
- having no money
- chancellor
- germanys prime minister
- subculture
- a minority culture within the mainstream culture
- constituent assembly
- legislature convened to draft new constitution
- Natural Law
- that which comes from nature, undersood by reasoning
- Whip
- legislator who instructs other party members when and how to vote
- deadlock
- in presidental systems, executive and legislative branches blocking each other
- general will
- Rousseaus theory of what everybody in the community wants
- national assembly
- lower, more important chamber of french parliament
- bundesrat
- upper weaker chamber of german parliament
- singe-member districts
- electoral system that elects one person per district, as in US and Britain
- survey
- public opinion poll
- proletariat
- marx's name for the industrial working class
- sit- in
- tactic of overturning local laws by deliberatly breaking them as at segregated lunch counters
- civil society
- humans after becomign civilized , modern usuage: associations between faimily and government
- unfunded mandate
- law requiring a lower level of government to pay for its implementation
- centrifugal
- pulling apart
- Balkanization
- broken up into unreasonablly small units
- MP
- british for member of parliamnet mainly the house of commons
- ministry
- major division of executive branch, equivalent to US department
- fusion of power
- executive as leading offshoot of legislature
- randomization
- drawing a sample at random, with everyone having an equal chance of inclusion
- investigating judge
- in european legal systems, judicial officer who bother gathers evidence issues
- parliament
- national legislature: when capitalized, british parliament, specifically house of commons
- volatility
- tendency of public opinion to change quickly
- sample
- those persons to be interviewed in a survey , a small fraction of a population
- methodology
- the techniques for studying questions objectively
- honeymoon
- high support for presidents early in thier terms
- normative
- explaining what ought to be
- authority
- political leaders ability to command respect and exercise power
- prime minister
- chief political official in parliamentary systems
- Gender Gap
- tendency of american women to vote more democratic than men do
- perfecture
- japanese first- order civil division
- jim crow
- system of segregationist laws in US south
- values
- deeply held views: key component of political power
- intensity
- the firmness and enthusiasm with which an opinion is held
- secular
- not connected to religion
- hypothesis
- an intial theory a researcher starts with, to be proved by evidence
- percentage point
- one hundreth of a given quantity
- Raj
- British-ruled India
- republic
- a ppolitical system with out a monarch
- quantify
- to measure with numbers
- bicameral
- parliament having two chambers ( upper and lower)
- Zeitgeist
- german for spirits of time- Hegels theory that each epoch has a distinctive spirit, which moves history along
- riksdag
- swedens parliament
- Greater
- indicates desire to gather into one nation and all areas of given ethnic group
- constructed
- something widely believed as old and hallowed but actually recent and artificial
- burden shifting
- moving expenditures to other levels of government
- Yalta
- early agreement by FDR, churchill and stalin on postwar Germany and eastern europe
- Tory
- nickname for british conservative