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🪩Intro to Comparative Politics
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272 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Comparative Politics exam

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A

Access to Justice
Age cohort
Almond and Verba's Typology
Arend Lijphart

B

Barrington Moore
Behavioral Revolution
Behavioralism
Big push model
Bottom-up approach
Bureaucratic Politics
Business associations
Business interest groups

C

Campaign finance laws
Campaign finance regulation
Candidate nomination
Case law
Causal inference
Centralized authority
Charles Tilly
Civic culture
Civic Engagement
Civil Conflict
Civil law
Civil law system
Civil society engagement
Civil Society Mobilization
Clientelism
Coalition governance
Cohabitation
Collective Action
Collective action problems
Collective identity
Collective ownership
Collectivism vs. Individualism
Colored revolutions
Comparative Historical Analysis
Compulsory voting
Confidence vote
Congressional system
Consensus Parties
Conservative welfare state
Consociationalism
Constitutional durability
Constitutional stability
Content Analysis
Crony Capitalism
Cross-national analysis
Cross-national comparison
Cultural Determinism
Culturalism

D

David Easton
De facto vs. de jure powers
Democratic Backsliding
Democratic Consolidation
Democratic culture
Democratic deficit
Democratic governance
Democratic health
Descriptive representation
Direct lobbying
Dirigiste policies
Disinformation campaigns
District magnitude
Domestic election monitoring
Dominant Party System
Dominant-party system
Dual executive model
Dualist systems
Duverger's Law

E

Eastern European Transitions
Economic interest groups
Economic liberalism
Economic performance
Election observation
Electoral behavior