A) the use of violence by nonstate actors who reject traditional rules of war and target civilians in order to achieve a political goal.
B) the use of violence by nonstate actors who accept the traditional rules of war and target the state in order to achieve a political goal.
C) the use of traditional violence by states against civilians in order to achieve a political goal.
D) the use of asymmetric violence by civilians against states in order to achieve a political goal.
F) A) and B)
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A) American Revolution
B) French Revolution
C) English Revolution
D) Russian Revolution
F) B) and C)
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A) terrorists almost always come from the poorest countries in the world.
B) terrorists almost always come from well-off families.
C) terrorists almost always come from the working class.
D) there is not a strong correlation between economic deprivation and terrorism.
F) A) and C)
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A) demonstrates that political scientists must consider multiple points of view when studying real-world cases.
B) seeks to demonstrate the mutability of political science terminology depending on context.
C) runs against a core aspiration of political science, which is to define terms objectively rather than subjectively.
D) is often used to demonstrate cultural differences in the application of political science.
F) A) and C)
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A) Ideational and institutional factors are more useful in explaining terrorist violence than revolutionary violence.
B) Most political scientists attempt to form a unified theory of political violence that incorporates different explanations equally.
C) Most scholars now agree that individual factors are the root of political violence.
D) Ideational factors are most important for providing a context in which particular preconditions, problems, and conflicts may emerge.
F) B) and D)
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A) ideational
B) individual
C) institutional
D) ideological
F) B) and C)
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A) the use of violence by nonstate actors against civilians in order to achieve a political goal.
B) the use of violence by states against civilians in order to achieve a political goal.
C) the use of violence by nonstate actors against states in order to achieve a political goal.
D) the use of violence by civilians against states in order to achieve a political goal.
F) All of the above
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A) Revolutions are typically more violent when the government chooses to freely give up its monopoly on violence.
B) In the past most revolutions were nonviolent, but they have become more violent since the end of the Cold War.
C) Revolutions are most often violent, though some argue that nonviolent revolutions have occurred.
D) Revolutions are most likely to involve violence when ethnicity is at the core of the disagreement with the regime.
F) A) and C)
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A) institutional
B) elite preservation
C) ideational
D) relative deprivation
F) A) and B)
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A) Elites are the agent of change.
B) Higher levels of political violence are involved.
C) People are the target of the violence, not the regime.
D) Ideology plays a bigger part.
F) A) and B)
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A) politically motivated violence conducted by the state.
B) politically motivated violence outside of state control.
C) violence conducted against civilians for political purposes.
D) violence between military forces.
F) B) and C)
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A) Revolutions often result in less freedom and equality.
B) The historical results of revolutions have led us to generally think of them as negative events.
C) Resulting revolutionary regimes rarely institutionalize new forms of politics.
D) Ideational factors typically play little to no role in the successful institutionalization of revolutionary regimes.
F) A) and C)
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A) They tend to be less deterministic.
B) They tend to be less well supported by research.
C) They tend to be more interested in the content of ideas.
D) They tend to be more particularistic.
F) None of the above
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