Political Science 1010
Introduction to Political Science
Final Exam Review


Public Opinion

• Determinants of Public Opinion
  -You should know how the following tend to effect public opinion
  • Class
  • Education
  • Region
  • Age
    • life cycle effect
    • generation effect
  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
• Almond's Three Publics
  • general public
  • attentive publics
  • opinion elites

Political Culture

• Almond and Verba's Civic Culture
  • Participant
  • Subject
  • Parochial
• Daniel Elazar's state political culture
  • Traditionalistic
  • Individualistic
  • Moralistic
• Political subcultures
• Political socialization
  • Agents of socialization

Political Commuication and the Media

• Two-step flow of commuication
• Media bias
• Media effects
  • cognitive dissonance
  • selective exposure
  • selective perception

Political Parties

• Definition
• Functions
  • Intermediary institutions
  • Interest aggregation
  • Integration into political system
  • Political socialization
  • Mobilization of voters
  • Organize government
  
  
• Impact of electoral system
  • Duverger's Law
  • single member district plurality system
    • winner-take-all (WTA)
    • "first past the post" (FPTP)
  • proportional representation (PR)
  • Advantages and disadvantages of each type
  Elections and Voting
  • Determinants of voting turnout
    • Socio-economic status
    • Race
    • Age
    • Gender
    • Geography
  • Determinants of vote choice (know how each effects vote choice)
    • party identification
    • socio-economic class
    • religion
    • age
    • gender
    • marriage
    • race
    • urban/rural

International Relations

• Realism v. Idealism
• Balance of power
• Bipolar v. Multipolar
• Theory of Democratic Peace
• History of American Foreign Policy
  • 19th century isolationism
  • The Cold War
    • Truman Doctrine and Containment
    • Deterrence
      • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
  • The future of American Foreign Policy
  • Terrorism as "the enemy"
    • Isis and Al Q'aeda

The Study of Politics

• Know the subfields
  • American politics
  • World politics
    • Comparative Politics
    • International Relations
  • Political Theory
  • Applied Subfields
    • Public Policy
    • Public Administration
    • Public Law
    • Methodology
  
  
  

  Terms you should know:
  agents of political socialization agreement reality Arrow's Theorem balance of power bandwagoning bipolar cognitive dissonance cognitive frameworks Cold War constructivism	containment cultural ownership deterrence direct democracy dramatic imperative experiential reality first-past-the-post system framing globalization hegemon	idealism initiatives isolationism majoritarianism median voter mediated reality multipolar political culture political socialization proportional representation	realism referenda representative democracy republic spin subcultures Truman Doctrine tyranny of the majority winner-take-all system world systems theory

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

  The definition of politics Political philosophy - Know what these fellas were known for Aristotle Machiavelli Marx Hobbes Locke Ideologies Modern liberalism Modern conservatism Marxist Socialism Marxist Leninism Dimensions of ideology Economic (Left/Right) Social (Authoritarian/Libertarian)

  Thee nature and problems of collective action collective goods free-riding coordination The Elements of Nationhood Crises of Nationbuilding Classification of Governments State ownership and redistribution of wealth Purposes and characteristics of Constitutions Presidential systems v. parliamentary systems Roles of the Executive Judicial activism v. judicial restraint