Political Science 1010
Introduction to Political Science
Final Exam Review


Political Economy

• The role of government in managing the economy
  • Fiscal policy
    • Keynsian economics
  • Monetary policy
    • Federal Reserve Board and interest rates
  • Exchange rates
    • Fixed
    • Floating
  • Welfare policy
    • Income inequality
    • entitlement programs
    • ideological approaches to poverty

Violence and Revolution

• Types of political violence
  • primordial
  • separatist
  • revolutionary
  • coups
  • issues
• Causes of violence
  • expectations gap
  • relative deprivation
• Revolutions
  • Role of intellectuals
  • Crane Brinton's stages of revolution
    • regime decay
    • seizure of power
    • moderate rule
    • "reign of terror"
    • Thermidor

International Relations

• National interest
  • vital v. secondary
  • temporary v. permanent
  • specific v. general
  • complementary v. conflicting
• Theories of War
  • Micro theories
  • Macro theories
    • Balance of power
    • Hierarchy of power
• Theory of Democratic Peace
• Keeping Peace
  • world government
  • problem of soveriegnty
  • collective security
  • functionalism
    • UNESCO
  • third party assistance
  • diplomacy
  • peace keeping forces
    • UNPROFOR
    • IFOR
• The Cold War
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Marshall Plan
  • Containment
  • Deterrence
    • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
• Soverignty and International Organizations
  • UN
  • NATO

The Global System

• Historical Systems
  • Balance of Power
  • Interwar
  • Bipolar
• Emergent Systems

  Unipolar Counterweight Multipolar Stratified Zones of Chaos

  Globalized Resource Wars Clash of Civilizations Proliferation

• Cycles of U.S. Foreign Policy
  • interventionism v. noninterventionism
  • Klingberg's Alternation Theory
    • introversion
    • extroversion

Terms you should know:
balance of payments balance of power bipolar business cycle Cold War collective security containment counterweight coup deficit deterrence entitlement euro Federal Reserve Board	fixed exchange rate floating exchange rate FTAA functionalism globalization hegemony imperial overstretch inflation isolationism Marshall Plan multipolar NAFTA national interest noninterventionism	outsourcing political economy proliferation recession relative deprivation revolution stagflation system breakdown tariff Thermidor Truman Doctrine unilateralism unipolar

There will also be a cumulative component to the exam. The material from the previous sections of the semester may include:

Chapter 1 The definition of politics The concepts of authority legitimacy sovereignty power Chapter 2 Political philosophy Aristotle Machiavelli Marx Hobbes Locke Chapter 3 The Elements of Nationhood Crises of Nationbuilding Classification of Governments State ownership and redistribution of wealth Chapter 4 Purposes and characteristics of Constitutions Chapter 5 Defining characteristics of democracies Defining characterstics of totalitarianism

Chapter 6 Ideologies Modern liberalism Modern conservatism Marxist Socialism Marxist Leninism Dimensions of ideology Economic (Left/Right) Social (Authoritarian/Libertarian) Chapter 7 Political socialization Chapter 8 Almond's three publics Chapter 11 Functions of political parties Chapter 12 Explanations of turnout party identification retrospective voting Chapter 13 electoral systems Unitary, federal and confederal systems Chapter 14 Presidential systems v. parliamentary systems Chapter 15 Roles of the Executive Chapter 17 Judicial activism v. judicial restraint