PSC 3304 Exam 3 / Final Review
questions with complete solutions
Political violence - correct answer ✔✔Violence outside of state control that is politically
motivated
Ideational - correct answer ✔✔Having to do with ideas
Revolution - correct answer ✔✔Public seizure of the state in order to overturn the existing
government and regime
Coup d'etat - correct answer ✔✔A move in which military forces take control of the government
by force
Relative deprivation - correct answer ✔✔Model that predicts revolution when public
expectations outpace the rate of domestic change
Terrorism - correct answer ✔✔The use of violence by nonstate actors against civilians in order
to achieve a political goal
State-sponsored terrorism - correct answer ✔✔Terrorism supported directly by a state as an
instrument of foreign policy
Guerrilla war - correct answer ✔✔A conflict whereby nonstate combatants who largely abide by
the rules of war target the state
,Nihilism - correct answer ✔✔A belief that all institutions and values are essentially meaningless
and that the only redeeming value is violence
Integration - correct answer ✔✔A process by which states pool their sovereignty, surrendering
some individual powers in order to gain shared political, economic, or societal benefits
Advanced democracy - correct answer ✔✔A country with institutionalized democracy and a
high level of economic development
Modern - correct answer ✔✔Characterized as secular, rational, materialistic, technological, and
bureaucratic, and placing a greater emphasis on individual freedom than in the past
Postmodern - correct answer ✔✔Characterized by a set of values that center on ''quality of life''
considerations and give less attention to material gain
Intergovernmental system - correct answer ✔✔A system in which two or more countries
cooperate on issues
Supranational system - correct answer ✔✔An intergovernmental system with its own sovereign
powers over member states
Postindustrialism - correct answer ✔✔The shift during the last half century from an economy
based primarily on industry and manufacturing to one in which the majority of people are
employed in the service sector, which produces the bulk of profits
Service sector - correct answer ✔✔Work that does not involve creating tangible goods
Communism - correct answer ✔✔(1) A political-economic system in which all wealth and
property are shared so as to eliminate exploitation, oppression, and, ultimately, the need for
political institutions such as the state; (2) A political ideology that advocates such a system
, Base - correct answer ✔✔The economic system of a society, made up of technology (the means
of production) and class relations between people (the relations of production)
Superstructure - correct answer ✔✔All noneconomic institutions in a society (e.g., religion,
culture, national identity); These ideas and values derive from the base and serve to legitimize
the current system of exploitation
Bourgeoisie - correct answer ✔✔The property owning class
Dialectical materialism - correct answer ✔✔Process of historical change that is not evolutionary
but revolutionary; The existing base and superstructure (thesis) would come into conflict with
new technological innovations, generating growing opposition to the existing order (antithesis)--
This would culminate in revolution, overthrowing the old base and superstructure (synthesis)
Proletariat - correct answer ✔✔The working class
Vanguard of the proletariat - correct answer ✔✔Lenin's argument that an elite communist party
would have to carry out revolution, because as a result of false consciousness, historical
conditions would not automatically lead to capitalism's demise
Nomenklatura - correct answer ✔✔Politically sensitive or influential jobs in the state, society, or
economy that were staffed by people chosen or approved by the Communist Party
Politburo - correct answer ✔✔The top policy-making and executive body of a communist party
Central Committee - correct answer ✔✔The legislature-like body of a communist party
questions with complete solutions
Political violence - correct answer ✔✔Violence outside of state control that is politically
motivated
Ideational - correct answer ✔✔Having to do with ideas
Revolution - correct answer ✔✔Public seizure of the state in order to overturn the existing
government and regime
Coup d'etat - correct answer ✔✔A move in which military forces take control of the government
by force
Relative deprivation - correct answer ✔✔Model that predicts revolution when public
expectations outpace the rate of domestic change
Terrorism - correct answer ✔✔The use of violence by nonstate actors against civilians in order
to achieve a political goal
State-sponsored terrorism - correct answer ✔✔Terrorism supported directly by a state as an
instrument of foreign policy
Guerrilla war - correct answer ✔✔A conflict whereby nonstate combatants who largely abide by
the rules of war target the state
,Nihilism - correct answer ✔✔A belief that all institutions and values are essentially meaningless
and that the only redeeming value is violence
Integration - correct answer ✔✔A process by which states pool their sovereignty, surrendering
some individual powers in order to gain shared political, economic, or societal benefits
Advanced democracy - correct answer ✔✔A country with institutionalized democracy and a
high level of economic development
Modern - correct answer ✔✔Characterized as secular, rational, materialistic, technological, and
bureaucratic, and placing a greater emphasis on individual freedom than in the past
Postmodern - correct answer ✔✔Characterized by a set of values that center on ''quality of life''
considerations and give less attention to material gain
Intergovernmental system - correct answer ✔✔A system in which two or more countries
cooperate on issues
Supranational system - correct answer ✔✔An intergovernmental system with its own sovereign
powers over member states
Postindustrialism - correct answer ✔✔The shift during the last half century from an economy
based primarily on industry and manufacturing to one in which the majority of people are
employed in the service sector, which produces the bulk of profits
Service sector - correct answer ✔✔Work that does not involve creating tangible goods
Communism - correct answer ✔✔(1) A political-economic system in which all wealth and
property are shared so as to eliminate exploitation, oppression, and, ultimately, the need for
political institutions such as the state; (2) A political ideology that advocates such a system
, Base - correct answer ✔✔The economic system of a society, made up of technology (the means
of production) and class relations between people (the relations of production)
Superstructure - correct answer ✔✔All noneconomic institutions in a society (e.g., religion,
culture, national identity); These ideas and values derive from the base and serve to legitimize
the current system of exploitation
Bourgeoisie - correct answer ✔✔The property owning class
Dialectical materialism - correct answer ✔✔Process of historical change that is not evolutionary
but revolutionary; The existing base and superstructure (thesis) would come into conflict with
new technological innovations, generating growing opposition to the existing order (antithesis)--
This would culminate in revolution, overthrowing the old base and superstructure (synthesis)
Proletariat - correct answer ✔✔The working class
Vanguard of the proletariat - correct answer ✔✔Lenin's argument that an elite communist party
would have to carry out revolution, because as a result of false consciousness, historical
conditions would not automatically lead to capitalism's demise
Nomenklatura - correct answer ✔✔Politically sensitive or influential jobs in the state, society, or
economy that were staffed by people chosen or approved by the Communist Party
Politburo - correct answer ✔✔The top policy-making and executive body of a communist party
Central Committee - correct answer ✔✔The legislature-like body of a communist party
