PLSC 102 Exam 2 Review Questions With
Correct Answers
Definition of Foreign Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Actions that
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regulate a state and international environment relationships
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Rational vs Bureaucratic vs Cognitive Models - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Models to approach foreign policy:
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Rational - Generality, Expected Utility, Systemic, Simultaneously
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Bureaucratic- Reduces complexity, sequential, satisficing
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Cognitive-
Cognitive rules of thumb: Minimize value-conflict; single-value choices,
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bolster and commit mechanisms
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Group Dynamics of Foreign Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Rational
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Deliberation: Sometimes rational and talk it out but not always a group
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preference
Manipulation: Can sway voters in an unfair manner | | | | | | |
Groupthink: Diverging voices do not appear as group tries to get along
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and move on
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, Factors Affecting Decision Process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Individual:
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Role, Situation, Personality
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Group: In/formal group structure, Situational
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Realism vs Liberalism on FP - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Realism: External
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factors produce FP decisions/actions; states confront anarchic
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environments and act similarly to national interest (rational on national
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level); domestic politics is irrelevant
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Liberalism: FP is the result of in/external points; international processes
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matter; in/formal processes have influence on FP
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In/Formal Influences on FP - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Informal: Media,
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interest groups, public opinion
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Formal: Legislature, Parliaments, Bureaucracies; Court Systems
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Public Opinion and FP - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1) FP has to have
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citizen's perspective (people need to have attitudes on FP though)
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2) Attitudes towards FP must be comparatively important
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3) Differing party platforms so citizens can translate opinions into votes
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Definition of Alliances - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Institutions that help
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their members cooperate militarily in the event of war.
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Correct Answers
Definition of Foreign Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Actions that
| | | | | | | |
regulate a state and international environment relationships
| | | | | |
Rational vs Bureaucratic vs Cognitive Models - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Models to approach foreign policy:
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Rational - Generality, Expected Utility, Systemic, Simultaneously
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Bureaucratic- Reduces complexity, sequential, satisficing
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Cognitive-
Cognitive rules of thumb: Minimize value-conflict; single-value choices,
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bolster and commit mechanisms
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Group Dynamics of Foreign Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Rational
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Deliberation: Sometimes rational and talk it out but not always a group
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preference
Manipulation: Can sway voters in an unfair manner | | | | | | |
Groupthink: Diverging voices do not appear as group tries to get along
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and move on
| |
, Factors Affecting Decision Process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Individual:
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Role, Situation, Personality
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Group: In/formal group structure, Situational
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Realism vs Liberalism on FP - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Realism: External
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factors produce FP decisions/actions; states confront anarchic
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environments and act similarly to national interest (rational on national
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level); domestic politics is irrelevant
| | | |
Liberalism: FP is the result of in/external points; international processes
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matter; in/formal processes have influence on FP
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In/Formal Influences on FP - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Informal: Media,
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interest groups, public opinion
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Formal: Legislature, Parliaments, Bureaucracies; Court Systems
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Public Opinion and FP - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1) FP has to have
| | | | | | | | | | |
citizen's perspective (people need to have attitudes on FP though)
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2) Attitudes towards FP must be comparatively important
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3) Differing party platforms so citizens can translate opinions into votes
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Definition of Alliances - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Institutions that help
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their members cooperate militarily in the event of war.
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