INTL 4330 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026

INTL 4330 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026 Liberal party in european context - Answers Separate government. Pro capatalist and more liberal on social issues. Pluralism - Answers Belief that diversity of interests, identities, and opinions is healthy for democracy; no single group should dominate politics Populism - Answers "the people" vs "the elite." Border Parties - Answers Parties located ideologically near major parties that influence them without fully replacing Isolation Strategy - Answers Mainstream parties refuse cooperation with extremist/populist parties Cordon Sanitaire Strategy - Answers A formal agreement among mainstream parties to exclude radical parties from governing coalitions Law and Justice Party-PiS (Poland) - Answers right wind, national-conservative, and populist party Militant Democracy - Answers A system where democratic states actively restrict anti-democratic actors to project democracy (Germany banning extremist parties) Poaching Strategy - Answers mainstream political parties adopt the rhetoric, issues, and policy of populist or extremist parties to win back voters. Repression Strategy - Answers Legal bans, surveillance, or reactions against extremist parties Accommodation Strategy - Answers Mainstream parties adopt parts of populist rhetoric or policy to win back voters. Content Analysis - Answers Research method used to analyse texts, speeches, media by coding and quantifying patterns. Used to study party platforms and media coverage. Helps identify ideological shifts. Euroscepticism - Answers Opposition or skepticism of the European Union Globalization - Answers Increasing economic, political, and cultural interconnectedness of states, firms, and people European Union - Answers Poltical and economic union of many European counties. Coordiate rade, law, regulation and policy across borders. Liberalism-Conservatism - Answers Liberals are pro-market and socially progressive, conservatives accept markets but support tradition, order, and some welfare protections Indirect costs on grants (from lecture) - Answers Advistraive staff salaires, university infrastructure Characteristics of post-industrialism - Answers Economy is service and knowledge, social structure is education based, poltical focus is identi and quality of life, values are post-materialsim Characteristics of pre-industrialism - Answers economy is agriculutrally based, ascription social structure. Traditional political foucs and value survival. Characteristics of industrialism - Answers Economy is manufacturing focused, class based scoity. Politics is focus on labor and capital. Values are material security. Capitalism - Answers An economic system based on private ownership and market competition Democracy - Answers A system where political authority comes from the people, usually through elections and representation European Coal and Steel Community - Answers A post ww2 organization integrating coal and steel industries to prevent war. Marshall Plan - Answers U.S economic aid to rebuild Western Europe and stabilize democracy after WW2 Privatization - Answers transfer of a state-owned enterprise to private ownership Treaty of Rome - Answers Created the European Economic Community, the foundation of today's EU Welfare State - Answers System where the government takes responsibility for protecting citizens against social and economic risks. Brexit - Answers UK's withdrawal from the EU, approved by the 2016 Referendum Electoral Threshold - Answers Minimum vote share required to enter parliament Majoritarian System - Answers Winner-takes-all elections (UK, US, Canada) Party List - Answers voters choose a party rather than individual candidates. Party Discipline - Answers How strongly party members are expected to vote with their party leadership Winner takes all single ballot - Answers One district, one seat (USA, UK, Canada, and Anticipatory effects - Answers Voters vote strategically to avoid wasting votes on smaller parties Voting districts - Answers Geographic areas that elect representatives to a lgesialtive. Countries like netherlands has one voting district. Problem of representation in single ballot winner take all system - Answers Votes for losing candidates don't translate into representation, destroying outcomes. Party List Proportional Representation (The Netherlands) - Answers Seats allocated in proportion to national vote share. Plurality vs. majority - Answers Plurality is the most votes, majority is more than 50% Voter turnout - Answers Higher in europe fie to proportional systems and party mobilization Reform Party (UK) - Answers Populist party in UK. Cabinet-How are cabinets selected - Answers U.S- Prescient appoints outsiders, parliamentary- the cabinet is chosen from the legislature Cohabitation - Answers Prescient and PM are from opposing parties Constitutional Monarchy - Answers The monarch is a symbolic, elected official govern Head of Government - Answers Runs policy (PM) Head of State - Answers Symbolic (Monarch, in some places the president) Minority Government - Answers Govern without a parliamentary majority, surviving via issue-by-issue support Semi-Presidentialism - Answers Dual executive, president and prime minister Symbolic Presidentialism - Answers presidents exist mainly as a ceremonial figure, Real political power lies with the prime miinister and the cabinet.