Political Science 002
Dr. Durukan
FINAL STUDY GUIDE
Your final covers the following chapters. Definitions, concepts, and themes that will be tested include but not limited to the following.
Comparative Politics:
- Definitions of key terms, including politics, power, legitimacy, science, hypothesis, and variable
- The basic steps in scientific research method
- Comparative and other alternative models used in Political Science
- Differences between structures and choices
Societies, Nations, and States:
- Definitions of and relationships among concepts of societies, nations, and states
- National identity inour ten sample countries
- Basic features of state, regime and government in the ten sample countries
- What is sovereignty? What are the current challenges to this concept?
Political Structures
- Definitions- Institution, democracy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, federal system, unitary system
- Explain the role of a constitution
- General type of political systems in the ten TIC countries
EXECUTIVE & LEGISLATURE
- What are the tasks of an executive branch?
- What are the tasks of a legislative branch?
- What are the major differences between Presidential and Parliamentary Systems?
- Characteristics of Executive and Legislative branches in 10 TIC countries.
JUDICIAL BRANCH (no Military , no Bureaucracy)\
- What are the tasks of a Judicial Branch?
- Definitions- Precedent, Stare Decisis, Judicial Independence
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a strong Judiciary?
- What is the difference between Common Law and Civil Law Traditions?
