Poli 130 UNC Exam 1 (Anderson)
this is called the comparative method and it is a way of examining patterns of facts or
events to narrow down what is important in terms of building a convincing comparative
politics argument.
Mills method of difference - ✔️✔️This method for causal analysis states that if an effect
is present in one case but not present in another similar case, we can look for a factor
that is present in that case that is not present in the other case and identify it as a
probable cause of the effect.
this is called the comparative method and it is a way of examining patterns of facts or
events to narrow down what is important in terms of building a convincing comparative
politics argument.
State vs. Regime vs. Government - ✔️✔️1. a state is a community that successfully
claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force in a given territory
2. regime- set of formal and informal rules and norms that define where power is located
and how it is used
3. government- the set of leaders or political elites in charge of running the state
comparative politics - ✔️✔️the study of similarities/differences in political developments
among two or more countries
Mills method of agreement - ✔️✔️If two or more instances of the phenomenon under
investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone
all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
State scope - ✔️✔️different functions or goals taken on by the government (i.e. what
does the state do?)
the effectiveness of state scope is individualistic because East Asian states have
scopes that range from minimal (Hong Kong) to highly interventionist (South Korea) yet
all they achieved extraordinarily high GDP per capita growth.
1. State capacity - ✔️✔️ability to plan and implement policies, enforces rules (i.e. how
well can the state get things done?)
- lack of state capacity in poor countries has come to haunt the developed world much
more directly
, -Thus we should think of state capacity as a mostly uneven rather than a smooth
phenomenon, since it can vary so strongly from one type of state function to another
within the same country
1. State strength - ✔️✔️state strength is measured by
-policing/law enforcement
-taxation
-property rights
-bureaucracy
-public goods
-welfare
There is evidence, however, that the strength of state institutions is more important,
broadly speaking, than the scope of state functions.
1. "brown areas" (Guillermo O' Donnell) - ✔️✔️areas within an otherwise strong state
where the gov't's institutional capacity is weak or non-existent
1. Warlords - ✔️✔️a military commander, especially an aggressive regional
commander with individual autonomy
Houthis - ✔️✔️Under the leadership of Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, the group
emerged as an opposition to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, whom they
charged with massive financial corruption and criticized for being backed by Saudi
Arabia and the United States at the expense of the Yemeni people and Yemen's
sovereignty.
Protection racket - ✔️✔️an illegal system in which criminals threaten to harm you or
your property if you do not give them money
protection rackets, defined as sustained institutional arrangements through which actors
extract regular tribute from others actors in return for providing protection from both
themselves and other threats.
Bellicist model of state building - ✔️✔️His theory posits that the preparation for and
conduct of wars in early modern and modern Europe fueled a natural selection of
states, whereby those states that could develop the necessary infrastructures,
institutions, and technologies to extract resources for wars—namely coercion and
capital—from their societies swallowed up most of those states and state-like
organizations that could not.
1. Total vs. limited war - ✔️✔️1. total war is war that is unrestricted in term of weapons
used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in
which the laws of war are disregarded.
this is called the comparative method and it is a way of examining patterns of facts or
events to narrow down what is important in terms of building a convincing comparative
politics argument.
Mills method of difference - ✔️✔️This method for causal analysis states that if an effect
is present in one case but not present in another similar case, we can look for a factor
that is present in that case that is not present in the other case and identify it as a
probable cause of the effect.
this is called the comparative method and it is a way of examining patterns of facts or
events to narrow down what is important in terms of building a convincing comparative
politics argument.
State vs. Regime vs. Government - ✔️✔️1. a state is a community that successfully
claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force in a given territory
2. regime- set of formal and informal rules and norms that define where power is located
and how it is used
3. government- the set of leaders or political elites in charge of running the state
comparative politics - ✔️✔️the study of similarities/differences in political developments
among two or more countries
Mills method of agreement - ✔️✔️If two or more instances of the phenomenon under
investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone
all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
State scope - ✔️✔️different functions or goals taken on by the government (i.e. what
does the state do?)
the effectiveness of state scope is individualistic because East Asian states have
scopes that range from minimal (Hong Kong) to highly interventionist (South Korea) yet
all they achieved extraordinarily high GDP per capita growth.
1. State capacity - ✔️✔️ability to plan and implement policies, enforces rules (i.e. how
well can the state get things done?)
- lack of state capacity in poor countries has come to haunt the developed world much
more directly
, -Thus we should think of state capacity as a mostly uneven rather than a smooth
phenomenon, since it can vary so strongly from one type of state function to another
within the same country
1. State strength - ✔️✔️state strength is measured by
-policing/law enforcement
-taxation
-property rights
-bureaucracy
-public goods
-welfare
There is evidence, however, that the strength of state institutions is more important,
broadly speaking, than the scope of state functions.
1. "brown areas" (Guillermo O' Donnell) - ✔️✔️areas within an otherwise strong state
where the gov't's institutional capacity is weak or non-existent
1. Warlords - ✔️✔️a military commander, especially an aggressive regional
commander with individual autonomy
Houthis - ✔️✔️Under the leadership of Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, the group
emerged as an opposition to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, whom they
charged with massive financial corruption and criticized for being backed by Saudi
Arabia and the United States at the expense of the Yemeni people and Yemen's
sovereignty.
Protection racket - ✔️✔️an illegal system in which criminals threaten to harm you or
your property if you do not give them money
protection rackets, defined as sustained institutional arrangements through which actors
extract regular tribute from others actors in return for providing protection from both
themselves and other threats.
Bellicist model of state building - ✔️✔️His theory posits that the preparation for and
conduct of wars in early modern and modern Europe fueled a natural selection of
states, whereby those states that could develop the necessary infrastructures,
institutions, and technologies to extract resources for wars—namely coercion and
capital—from their societies swallowed up most of those states and state-like
organizations that could not.
1. Total vs. limited war - ✔️✔️1. total war is war that is unrestricted in term of weapons
used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in
which the laws of war are disregarded.
