POLA01 – Fall 2014

Final Examination Study Guide

Exam Format:
20-25 multiple choice questions
2 Essays (You will choose two essays from a list of possible questions)
Cummulative Exam—material from the whole course is fair game
Closed book and note

Topics Covered (Including topics from start of the course)

Climate Science (basics) Characteristics of Climate Change Uncertainty
International Politics Treaty-Making (Over Time) Regimes
Sovereignty Why International Response has been difficult
Varied Domestic Responses to Climate Change

Municipal Climate Politics Municipal Climate Networks Private Actors

Corporations and Climate Change Civil Society and Climate Change
Individual Climate Politics Leaders and Laggards

Terms you should be familiar with from before the midterm (this is not an exhaustive list—
some of these terms won’t show up on the exam and others not on this list might)

Greenhouse effect Global Warming Greenhouse Gas

Climate Change Uncertainty Scope
Emissions (Absolute, Per Capita, Historical, Current, Production, Consumption)
IPCC UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol
Universal Participation CBDR Precautionary Principle
Collective Action Freeriding Public Good
Sovereignty Agenda Setting Bargaining
Implementation Monitoring Revision
Regimes Democracy Authoritarian
Electoral System Presidential System Parliamentary System
Corporatist Pluralist Unitary System
Federal System National Interest National Discourse
Domestic Institutions

Terms you should be familiar with since the midterm (this is not an exhaustive list—some of
these terms won’t show up on the exam and others not on this list might)

City Networks C40 Co-Benefits

Policy Entrepreneurs Coalitions Discourse
Capacity Private Public
NGO Civil Society Principled Actors
Influence Governance Agenda Setting
Shaming Ecological Sensibility Direct Action
Climate Risk Supply Chain Business Strategy
Carbon Footprint Corporate Leadership Green Consumerism
Behavioral Wedge Plasticity
Example of Multiple Choice Question

Cities may become leaders on climate change because they feel they can achieve co-benefits from
acting on climate change. These co-benefits include:

a. improvements in citizen health

b. more liveable cities
c. emissions reductions
d. both a and b
e. all of the above

Examples of essay questions

Is individual action an effective strategy for responding to climate change? If so, why? If not, how
could it be?

How would you describe the connection between actions taken by cities or private actors or
individuals and the multilateral climate regime? Is one kind of action more important than the
other?