PSC 2442 Midterm 1 questions and
answers graded A+
major actors in global governance - correct answer ✔✔*states*
*Subnational and local* jurisdictions
*Transnational and trans governmental networks* of actors - grouping of
resources
*IGOs*
*NGOs* - "awareness raisers"
*Experts and epistemic communities* - knowledge entrepreneurs
*multi-stakeholders*
*MNCs* - for-profit business strategists, changing norms
global governance (definition)
,(Weiss and Riklinkson, 2014) - correct answer ✔✔"...the sum of the informal and
formal ideas, values, norms, procedures, and institutions that help all
actors...identify, understand, and address trans-boundary problems"
institutions (definition)
(Ostrom, 2005) - correct answer ✔✔"...prescriptions that humans use to organize
all forms of repetitive and structural interactions..."
international rules and law - correct answer ✔✔treaties or conventions,
customary practice, writings of legal scholars, judicial decisions, general principles
of law
international norms; "soft law" - correct answer ✔✔non-binding shared
expectations or understandings regarding standards of appropriate behavior,
particularly from states
international regimes - correct answer ✔✔principles, norms, rules, and decision-
making procedures linked to one another in a particular issue area
EX: nuclear weapons proliferation regime, BW exchange rate regime)
ad hoc groups, arrangements, global conferences - correct answer ✔✔GG without
a formal legal basis
EX: G-8, G-20, Earth Summit
,private governance - correct answer ✔✔authoritative decision-making in areas
where states have not acted
EX: intl accounting standards, labor standards for single MNC)
conditions for statehood - correct answer ✔✔permanent population
population organized under effective govt, able to command, compel obedience
of people most of the time
physical territory
capacity to enter into relations with other states
bases of authority - correct answer ✔✔institutional
delegated
expert
principled
capacity-based
realism - correct answer ✔✔What kind of power?
*relative power; zero-sum game*
, - relative power
- states as primary actors
- states act in unitary way to pursue national interest
- IOs are epiphenomenal of the state; product of power interests; considered
useful only insofar as they enhance the relative power of the state
- IOs as "tools of states"; "they do not affect the basic characteristics of the
international system; because they reflect the distribution of power among states,
they are no more than the sum of their member states"
- focus on relative vs absolute gains
- zero-sum game
Supporting theories:
- *hegemonic stability* --> dominant state creates and maintains open economy -
public good
- *role of hegemonic power* --> norm and rule creation, prevent cheating and
free-riding, manage monetary system, help ignite world growth
- *long-term viability* --> can a system remain in place if the hegemonic power
loses power?
liberalism - correct answer ✔✔(or neo-liberal institutionalism)
What kind of power?
*absolute power*; intl orgs enhance predictability; greater power in world as a
whole
answers graded A+
major actors in global governance - correct answer ✔✔*states*
*Subnational and local* jurisdictions
*Transnational and trans governmental networks* of actors - grouping of
resources
*IGOs*
*NGOs* - "awareness raisers"
*Experts and epistemic communities* - knowledge entrepreneurs
*multi-stakeholders*
*MNCs* - for-profit business strategists, changing norms
global governance (definition)
,(Weiss and Riklinkson, 2014) - correct answer ✔✔"...the sum of the informal and
formal ideas, values, norms, procedures, and institutions that help all
actors...identify, understand, and address trans-boundary problems"
institutions (definition)
(Ostrom, 2005) - correct answer ✔✔"...prescriptions that humans use to organize
all forms of repetitive and structural interactions..."
international rules and law - correct answer ✔✔treaties or conventions,
customary practice, writings of legal scholars, judicial decisions, general principles
of law
international norms; "soft law" - correct answer ✔✔non-binding shared
expectations or understandings regarding standards of appropriate behavior,
particularly from states
international regimes - correct answer ✔✔principles, norms, rules, and decision-
making procedures linked to one another in a particular issue area
EX: nuclear weapons proliferation regime, BW exchange rate regime)
ad hoc groups, arrangements, global conferences - correct answer ✔✔GG without
a formal legal basis
EX: G-8, G-20, Earth Summit
,private governance - correct answer ✔✔authoritative decision-making in areas
where states have not acted
EX: intl accounting standards, labor standards for single MNC)
conditions for statehood - correct answer ✔✔permanent population
population organized under effective govt, able to command, compel obedience
of people most of the time
physical territory
capacity to enter into relations with other states
bases of authority - correct answer ✔✔institutional
delegated
expert
principled
capacity-based
realism - correct answer ✔✔What kind of power?
*relative power; zero-sum game*
, - relative power
- states as primary actors
- states act in unitary way to pursue national interest
- IOs are epiphenomenal of the state; product of power interests; considered
useful only insofar as they enhance the relative power of the state
- IOs as "tools of states"; "they do not affect the basic characteristics of the
international system; because they reflect the distribution of power among states,
they are no more than the sum of their member states"
- focus on relative vs absolute gains
- zero-sum game
Supporting theories:
- *hegemonic stability* --> dominant state creates and maintains open economy -
public good
- *role of hegemonic power* --> norm and rule creation, prevent cheating and
free-riding, manage monetary system, help ignite world growth
- *long-term viability* --> can a system remain in place if the hegemonic power
loses power?
liberalism - correct answer ✔✔(or neo-liberal institutionalism)
What kind of power?
*absolute power*; intl orgs enhance predictability; greater power in world as a
whole
