AP Comp Gov Unit 1 Review

Analyzing political decision making and behavior that assumes that individual actors rationally pursue their aims in an effort to achieve the most positive net result.

• Rational Choice Theory
• Middle Level Theory
• Democratic Transition
• Causal theories

This variable in an experiment is the one being deliberately changed by the scientist. 

• dependent variable
• independent variable
• data
• control group

The measurable factor in an experiment is known as the: 

• Control
• Independent Variable
• Constant
• Dependent Variable

___________= related

• Correlation
• Rule of Law
• Causation
• Dependent Variable

_____________= one variable causes another 

• Correlation
• Rule of law
• Causation
• Independent Variable

Political system that has sovereignty over a population in a particular territory, based on the recognized right to self-determination. 

• Nation
• Democracy
• Theocracy
• State

A group of people with common identity (language, history, race, culture etc.) 

• State
• Nation
• Nationalism
• Patriots

What holds a monopoly over the legitimate means of coercion or use of violence?

• State

• Government

• Country

• Nation

A political regime is considered legitimate when

• citizens stop paying attention to political events

• citizens support almost all policy decisions of the government

• citizens refuse to obey any unpopular laws

• citizens accept the government's right to rule

The term for when a state's power and territory have been institutionalized over a long period of time, and are therefore accepted by the public.

• Rational-Legal Legitimacy
• Traditional Legitimacy 
• Charismatic Legitimacy 
• Autonomy