Write 2 Essays from Section A (each being around 200 words) and 2 essays from Section B (each being around 800 words)
Section A:
1. Collective action problem
2. State capacity
3. Political regime
4. Party system
5. Institution
6. Social cleavage
7. Revolution
Social movement
8. Post-materialism
Section B
1. To what extent have the factors influencing state formation varied
over space and time?
2. Are presidential constitutions “perilous” for democracy?
3. Why might some functions of parties be more important than others?
4. What are the major differences between elections in democracies
and non-democracies?
5. Is there a ‘crisis’ of political participation in the modern world?
6. Why are some legislatures more powerful than others?
7. How do we know whether a federal state in name is a federal state
in practice?
8. What role does political culture play in how politics works?
9. What (if anything) makes political science “scientific”?
The Essay must be NO more than 2000 words