Daily Quiz #1 - AP Comp Gov Quiz

10 terms from the attached list. This Thursday, be ready for MCQ questions on the vocab from the introduction plus terms 1-10 from the list.

Power

• The ability to influence or control the behavior of others.

Authority

• The legitimate or recognized right to exercise power and make decisions.

Legitimacy

• The acceptance and recognition of authority or power as valid and rightful. Citizens believe that their government has a right to use their power in the way that they do.

Political Stability

• The state of a country or region where the government and political institutions are strong, and there is a general absence of major conflicts, social unrest, or changes in leadership.

Correlation

• A statistical relationship between two or more variables where a change in one variable is associated with a change in another variable

Causation

• A relationship between cause and effect, where one variable directly influences or brings about changes in another variable.

Freedom

• The absence of constraints or restrictions on individuals or groups to act or express themselves as they desire.

Equality

• The state of being equal in rights, opportunities, or status.

Human Development Index (HDI)

• A composite measure of a country's development, considering factors such as life expectancy, education, and income.

Gini Index

• A statistical measure of income inequality within a country, ranging from 0 (perfect equality) to 100 (maximum inequality).

Area Studies

• A regional focus when studying political science, rather than studying parts of the world where similar variables are clustered

Behavorial Revolution

• A movement within political science during the 1950s and 1960s to develop general theories about individual political behavior that could be applied across all countries

Causal Relationship

• Cause and effect; when a change in one variable causes a change in another variable

Comparative Method

• The means why which social scientists make comparisons across cases

Comparitve Politics

• The study and comparison of domestic politics across countries

Correlation

• An apparent relationship between two or more variables

Deductive Reasoning

• Research that works from a hypothesis that is then tested against data

Dependent Variable

• A variable whose value changes based on that of another

Endogeneity

Equality

Formal Institutions

Freedom

Game Theory

Independent Variable

Inductive Reasoning

Informal Institutions

Institution

International Relations

Modernization Theory

Multicausality

Politics

Power

Qualitative Method

Quantitative Method

Rational Choice

Selection Bias

Theory