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How does Gilley define legitimacy? (pick 4)
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The voluntary submission to power systems in whose validity the subject behaves
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Might and right
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Elusive as important
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Requires popularity, consent, and democracy
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Type of political support grounded in common good of shared moral evaluation
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Concerns the right to rule
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Involves the effective exercise of political power
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What are the four legitimacy mandates?
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Consociationalism/consensus model, Majority mandate model, Median mandate model, and Working mandate model
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Consociationalism/consensus model, Median mandate model, Working mandate model, and Mixed mandate model
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Working mandate model, Mixed mandate model, Plurality mandate model, and Proportional mandate model
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Majority mandate model, Mixed mandate model, Plurality mandate model, and Proportional mandate model
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What are the six essential components of free and fair elections in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
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Transparent elections
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Encouragement of full citizen participation
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Parties that operate freely
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Independent media
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The possibility of defeating the incumbent
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Impartial and independent judicial system
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Proportional representation
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Social capital refers to social organisation (networks, norms, social trust) which facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.
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How does identity politics fit into the culture and rational choice theory?
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The belief about the world and the belief about a desire produces action.
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Desire and beliefs produce action.
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People will choose the most rational choice, regardless if it goes against their political interests.
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Desire is a constant product of nature.
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What are the criticisms of identity politics? (pick 5)
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Essentialism
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Overly sensitive
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Creates disunity
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Diverts attention from core locations of oppression
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Petty version of nationalism
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Doesn't achieve goals quick enough
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Eliminates false consciousness
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Demands restitution for historial wrongs
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What are the purposes of political parties?
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What are the two types of welfare states?
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Residual welfare state and Institutional welfare state
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Residual welfare state and Liberal welfare state
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Institutional welfare state and Social Democratic welfare state
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Liberal welfare state and Social Democratic welfare state
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State Provisions welfare state and Private Provisions welfare state
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What are the three types of civic culture discussed in the lectures?
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Parochial culture
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Subject culture
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Participant culture
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Parent culture
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Political culture
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Which 'Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism' is stigma attached to?
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Liberal
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Conservative
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Social Democractic
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What does the Esping-Andersen model look at?
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De-commodification, stratification, and the three types of welfare states
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The economy, electoral system, and social expediture
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Social democracies, proportional representation, and commodification
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Commodification, capitalism, and conservatives
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Commodification, social order, and the three types of welfare states
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What is welfare? (pick all that apply)
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Support for the unemployed, elderly, ill, disabled, parents, and veterans.
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State provisions
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Private provisions
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Different meanings in different national contexts
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Neo-liberal policy
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What is the civil law code?
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Laws concerning private property rights and family law
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Set of laws governing marriage, divorce, inheritance, and children
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Country's political system's way of shaping, promoting, checking and absorbing challenges from civil society
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Establishes the organs of government, basic powers, and limits governmental procedures
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What is Duverger's law?
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Plurality rule elections structured within single member districts tend to favour a two-party system
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People will naturally try to attempt to free-ride the system, benefiting from other peoples' efforts without contributing to collective mobilisation
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Politicians are self interested and will act corrupt in a system without checks and balances
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Countries experiencing economic growth and cultural change will become more democratic
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What is the European Council responsible for?
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Making crucial decisions
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Defines the direction the EU takes
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Controls foreign policy and security polcies
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Convincing smaller states of their pre-decided decisions
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Deals with the budget and expenditures
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Represents the populations of member states
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What are the responsibilities of the European Commission?
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Manages the budget and expenditures
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Political supervision
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Legislation
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Controls foreign and security policies
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Promoting national interest
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What characterises thin legitimacy?
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Normative legitimacy
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Based on input, common values, norms, and ideology
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Instrumental, rational legitimacy
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Based on output and performance
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How does social media positively impact political change?
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More accessible information available
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Enhances citizen participation
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Decline of party membership
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Rise of 'anti-social' media
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Participation in politics from home
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What are the three sources of legitimacy as described by Weber?
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Rational-legal
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Traditional
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Charismatic
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Justifications
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Consent
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What are the four theoretical approaches to European Integration?
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Supranationalism, Neo-functionalism, Inter-governmentalism, and Multilevel governance
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Neo-liberalism, Multilevel governance, Federalism, and Supranationalism
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Unitarism, Neo-liberalism, Functionalism, and Inter-governmentalism
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Neo-functionalism, Federalism, Inter-governmentalism, and Neo-liberalism
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Putnam's thesis is that...
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The reduction of civic engagement and growing distrust is a result of the decline in social capital and social interactions
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Low economic growth means capital returns on capital will outstrip other returns
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Women are more likely to vote more conservative than men, due to religiosity, different labour force participation, and social roles
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As societies become more democratic and liberal, more women are more likely to vote liberal than men
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How does mixed member majoritarian (MMM) differ from Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)?
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In MMP, seats are first filled by electorate winners and then the list, while in MMM, district and list seats are separate
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In MMP, district and list seats are distributed proportionally, while in MMM, they are distributed equally and together
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MMM can result in zombie politicians, while MMP prevents this
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In MMP, parties are given a number of seats based on the proportion of votes, while in MMM, they are single seat districts
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What characterises the modern approach to party formation?
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No party membership, single issue and third parties
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Formed within legislative, top-down
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Formed outside of legislative, support from civil societies
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Formed within legislative from support from civil societies
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Gerrymandering is...
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is the manipulation of district boundaries to capture the votes in favour political appointees
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when one benefits from other people's efforts without contributing to collective mobilisation
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when people go to multiple poling stations to try and influence the outcome of the vote
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To what is ultranationalist identity politics a reaction to?
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Conservation as an ideology of loss and unification in the fear of the other
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Conservation of national economy and fear of Americanisation
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Fear of rising unemployment and an increased influx of migration
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Fear of loss of tradition and shift towards neo-liberalist policies
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Commodification and capitalism is a modern phenomenon and a product of political choice.
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Which is not a criticism of Almond and Verba's take on civic culture discussed on the lecture?
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Marxism without the criticism
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Democratic involvement is the domain of the white middle class male
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No such thing 'national culture'
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More prescriptive than objective
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Legitimacy crisis is...
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The perceived inability of an established democracy to overcome problems of social alienation and economic slowdown
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Most citizens do not see their government as a legitimate institution
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The elected party in a non-democratic nation has the consent of the citizens, but is not popular
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Plurality rule elections tend to favour a two-party system
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Decisions are made by the Council of Ministers by a plurality system
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The European Parliament is the only official political supranational institute.
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What are the five characteristics Jacques Delors describes of European integration?
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Ever larger and more diverse
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Increasing scope of policy making
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More formal process of treaty revision
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More complex
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More/less democratic
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More condensed
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More fragmented
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Instrumental legitimacy concerns nationalism, collectivism, history, and ethnicity
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Access to free media will leads to democratisation and more freedoms.
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Which is not a recent concern over European integration discussed in the lecture?
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Legitimacy deficit
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Question of political autonomy
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Responsiveness, Transparency, Accountability,
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Increase of states active in banking
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Euroscepticism
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Exiting of member states
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Homogenisation and loss of language and culture
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Problem of identity
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Which institutions are part of the institutional triangle council?
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European Council
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European Commission
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European Parliament
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Council of Ministers
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What are the arguments against political mobilisation through social media and regime change?
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Promotes weak ties and slacktivism
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There is an absence of strategic leadership
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Distracts from real activism
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Undermines the essence of pro-democracy struggle
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Overcrowds debate and public opinion
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Too much access to false information
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When a voter ranks candidates based on the order in which they appear on the ballot is called a zombie vote
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In order to win a seat in a First Past the Post system, a candidate must get more than half the votes.