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| Abstract concept in which people are united based on a common language, history, culture, or religion | Nation |
| A political unit with a defined territory, population, and government which make and enforce laws. It also can carry out relations with other countries. | State |
| Yugoslavia and East Germany are examples of what type of state? | Failed States |
| An approach in political science that attempts to model political behavior by analyzing verbal and mathematical date to anticipate political outcomes | Rational Choice Theory |
| An approach in political science which identifies important political roles in society. | Structural Functional Approach |
| An approach in political science that attempts to look at the menaing of political life. It looks at larger questions of justice and what the ideal state should be. | Philosophical Approach |
| In analyzing theory something that is constant in the research. | Independent Variable |
| In a theory the hypothesis that the research is trying to prove is the? | Dependent Variable |
| Communism was developed by what political thinker? | Karl Marx |
| The ideology which reacted against large bureaucratic monarchies and initially advocated pacifism. | Anarchism |
| Law based on precedents and previous court decisions. | Common Law |
| A type of economic system in which the state controls and manages the economy to increase its power. | Mercantilism |
| The act in Great Britain which means defendants must be informed of the charges against them. | Habeas Corpus Act 1679 |
| The overthrowing of James II of England and the greater power taken by the British House of Commons is known as: | The Glorious Revolution of 1688 |
| The philosopher who developed the concept of natural rights was? | John Locke |
| What are the three components of natural rights? | Life, Liberty, and Property |
| The idea that individuals are born with certain rights because they are human beings is? | Natural Rights |
| The ideology of Liberalism is most associated with what economic system? | Capitalism |
| Marx argued that capitalism was important because it broke the power of what social class? | Feudalism/The Aristocracy |
| Providing individuals with a value system of how the world does or should work. | Ideology |
| In Russia this group advocated violence and believed the destruction of the state. | Nihilist |
| The final stage of Marx's thought in which the state would wither away is known as? | Communism |
| An organization where decision makers are drawn from the same socio-economic class and similar backgrounds. This leads to similar patterns of decision making | Group Think |
| The concept of feminism which wants to reform society to enable women to achieve the same opportunities as men. | Reform Feminism |
| The view of feminism which argues that social and political institutions need to be changed substantially in order for women to have the same opportunities as men. | Revolutionary Feminism |
