Exam 1: Politics: Setting the Stage

The text calls the "best common solution to a common problem": __________________.

Compare and contrast how "interpretivist" and "behaviorism" political scientists approach the analysis of politics.

The meaning of the word "state" typically used in political science is:

Manifest power is:

For political scientists, authority and legitimacy are the same thing.

Explain why legitimacy plays such an important role in the exercise of power.

Apart from the important efforts to see both sides of a question and keeping emotions low key, it is crucial to be precise about the meanings of the ____________ that we use.

The key actor in this text is the:

A central theme of the text is that politics is best viewed as a ____________________.

The special kind of power government has is called _______________.

A political scientist that focuses on how Congress passes legislation would best fit in this subfield:

Power may be exercised by: ________________, persuasion, or the construction of incentives.