GVPT 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Classical Liberalism, Dependent And Independent Variables, Transnationalism

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 200
• Professor: Calvert Jones

Document Summary

Lecture 1: tribes, city-states, empires, to sovereign statehood. Internal: state has supreme authority within their own country. External: recognition by a state that other states have their own power in their own reign. Evolving (not of feudal order in: europe) Yes (formal est. in we w/ peace of westphalia) Origins of the state: protestant reformation & thirty years" war. Kings/princes decide domestic policy w/in own domain. Bellist argument: war made the state and the state made war. (charles tilly) Support for bellist argument: developed standing armies, centralized administrative structures, capability to tax the countryside. Everyone wants a state sovereignty spread to other parts of the world. Theory: describes how and why outcomes occur. Variable: factor that changes and can be measured. Independent variable: variables whose value determines the value of another variable. Dependent variable: outcomes determined by independent variables. Hypothesis: theorized statement testing relationship between 2+ variables. State not necessarily primary actor in world politics.