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📜Intro to Political Science
Key Terms

630 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Political Science exam

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1st Amendment
4th Amendment
8th Amendment

A

Absentee Voting
Absentee voting
Absolute poverty
Activism
Administrative Discretion
Administrative Regulations
Administrative State
Advocacy NGOs
Affective Intelligence Theory
Affordable Care Act
AFL-CIO
Age of Enlightenment
Alexis de Tocqueville
Algorithmic Curation
Alt-Right
American Civil Liberties Union
Anti-Dumping
Anti-Establishment Sentiment
Antitrust Laws
Appropriations Bills
Appropriations process
Approval Ratings
Arab League
Asian Financial Crisis

B

Balance of trade
Balance of Trade
Behavioral Approach
Behavioral Economics
Behavioralist Approach
Bipolar system
Bolivarian socialism
Bonding Social Capital
Boumediene v. Bush
Buen Vivir
Burden sharing
Bureaucratic Accountability
Bureaucratic Discretion

C

Campaign Spending
Candidate-Centered Politics
Canvassing
Capital Account Liberalization
Capital Controls
Capital flight
Capital mobility
Capital punishment
Carbon tax
Carbon Taxes
Cartel Party Theory
Case Law
Casework
Catch-All Parties
Caucuses
Chamber
Charismatic legitimacy
Charismatic Legitimacy
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Chavismo
Chicken Game
Christian Dominionism
Christian Right
Circuit Courts of Appeals
Citizen Journalism
Citizens United
Civic Culture
Civic Duty
Civic Education
Civic engagement
Civic Engagement
Civic Virtue
Civil religion
Civil rights groups
Class consciousness