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Quiz am Politics, erstellt von hncampbell95 am 17/10/2014.
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Frage 1

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What is power?
Antworten
  • The ability to control or impose your will upon others.
  • Having the physical might over people.
  • A right or benefit that is given to some people and not to others.
  • The power to give orders and make decisions.

Frage 2

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What is politics? (You can select more than one)
Antworten
  • The activities associated with the governance of a country or area, especially the debate between parties having power.
  • Who gets what, when, how, and why.
  • The authoritative allocation of values for a society.
  • A particular set of Political beliefs or principles.
  • Interactions between states and the international system.

Frage 3

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What is comparative politics?
Antworten
  • The study of phenomena across states.
  • The study of interactions between states and the international system.
  • The study of good decision making.
  • The study of governments, justice, liberty, prosperity, rights, and war.

Frage 4

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Which branch of the government is responsible for implementing laws?
Antworten
  • Executive
  • Judicial
  • Legislative
  • Executive and legistalative

Frage 5

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One or two houses of representatives in the legislative branch is referred to as...
Antworten
  • uni- or bicameral
  • unitary or federal
  • codified or non-codified
  • ministries or cohabitation

Frage 6

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What is the "modernisation theory?"
Antworten
  • The idea that democracy occurs as a result of economic growth and cultural changes.
  • The idea that democracy promotes economic growth due to more political freedom.
  • As countries become more secular, they experience more economic growth.
  • As countries democratise and experience economic growth, dramatic cultural changes will occur.

Frage 7

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What was Huntington's theory on global conflicts?
Antworten
  • Global clashes occur as a result of a difference in economic interests.
  • Cultural characteristics will become more homogenised over time and less global conflicts will occur.
  • Individuals are born with certain characteristics, and these cultural characteristics will drive future conflicts.
  • Global conflicts do not occur as a result of clash of civilisations, as they don't actually exist as previously described in discourse.

Frage 8

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What are the differences between Marx and Weber's opinion on political identity?
Antworten
  • Weber saw political identity as an ingrained part of our cultural identity, while Marx believed that economic interests was ingrained in political identity and our cultural identity.
  • Weber believed that it was political identity which would be the driving force in global conflicts, while Marx believed that it was economic identity.
  • Marx saw political cleavage as the driving force that effected economic interests, while Weber saw it as the cultural class-consciousness that influenced political identity.
  • Marx believes economic interests shapes political identity, while Weber believes it is cultural interests that shapes political identity.

Frage 9

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What was Madison's Dilemma?
Antworten
  • Politicians are self-interested and governments should have a system of checks & balances.
  • States have usually been in contact with each other throughout history, which implies that the adoption of particular political systems cannot be isolated to a few select variables.
  • Humans are self-interested, but also desire the feeling of belonging, which explains why nationalism was such a late development.
  • The state only has power so long as its citizens believe in it.

Frage 10

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What was the democratisation sequence in the "transition paradigm?"
Antworten
  • Breakthrough, opening, reform
  • Opening, breakthrough, consolidation
  • Collapse, opening, reform
  • Breakdown, opening, reform

Frage 11

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What was the "collective action problem?"
Antworten
  • A situation where individuals have private incentives, but decide to participate in an action that benefits all members of the group.
  • A situation where the legislature cannot come to a mutual agreement over a policy or law.
  • A situation where individuals have private incentives not to participate in an action that benefit all members of the group.
  • A situation where there is internal conflict within a party, and therefore a collective idea can be pursued.

Frage 12

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According to Hobbes, without a common power, society would exist in a state of...
Antworten
  • peace and harmony
  • primordalism
  • cautious mistrust
  • anarchy/human nature

Frage 13

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Which concepts did Locke's "Two Treaties on Government" expand upon?
Antworten
  • The social contract and "divine right of kings"
  • The "divine rights of kings" and political identity
  • The social contract and political identity
  • The powers of the executive and legislative branch

Frage 14

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According to the ideological state apparatuses...
Antworten
  • economics reinforces ideological beliefs.
  • ideological differences between states creates conflicts.
  • states with a strong ideology tend to be authoritarian.
  • state institutes reproduce the conditions of a capitalist state.

Frage 15

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What are the ideas behind "good and bad governance?" (you can select more than one)
Antworten
  • Good governance is not necessarily moral governance.
  • Governance affects the quality of life
  • Form of government is predetermined by choice
  • We can distinguish between good and bad governance

Frage 16

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Why was Machiavelli's "Il Principe" so influential?
Antworten
  • It was the first sarcastic account of a political structure.
  • It bridged pre-modern and modern thinking.
  • It promoted authoritarian rule.
  • Machiavelli wrote it.

Frage 17

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What was John Stuart Mill's "method of difference?"
Antworten
  • If two or more examples have a variable in common, and all only have only one other variable in common, the variables are correlated.
  • If a dependent variable is common to all instances but one, and in that one instance, the independent variable is different, the variables are correlated.
  • If different variables results in a common outcome, it is that common outcome which shows the instances are correlated.
  • If all variables are the same, except for one, and they all have share a common outcome, then the differing variable is an outlier.

Frage 18

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The independent variables of the "occupational hazards" are... (can select more than one)
Antworten
  • necessity of occupation
  • whether the occupation furthers the interests of the occupying powers
  • commonly perceived threat
  • guarantee that the occupying force will withdraw is credible
  • success of overthrowing occupying force

Frage 19

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Which factors can attribute to late state formation?
Antworten
  • Military investment, agricultural production, collapse of feudalism, and enlightenment.
  • Capitalist economy, need to defend territory, shared cultural identity
  • Tax, stability of a centralised power, and democratic ideals
  • War, economics, political interests, and geographical luck

Frage 20

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Which factors, that we discussed, can contribute to regime change?
Antworten
  • Democratisation/collapse of democracy
  • Civic culture
  • Economic development
  • Conscription armies and mass education
  • Foreign policy interests of global powers and neighbours
  • Natural disasters
  • Economic crisis

Frage 21

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What characterises "primordalism"?
Antworten
  • Nations are naturally occurring entities, which you are born into.
  • Human nature has no objective for the greater good; it's a war of all against all.
  • Political leaders will do anything to maintain power; the end justifies the means.
  • Individuals will chose not to act for the greater good in favour for their own personal interests.

Frage 22

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What are the essential components of a democratic constitutions?
Antworten
  • Codified, established governmental organs, and popular sovereignty.
  • Open fair elections, accountability, reflection of national values.
  • Established governmental organs, guarantee of basic citizen rights, popular sovereignty.
  • Open fair elections, non-codified, guarantee of basic citizen rights for electorate.

Frage 23

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What are the two forms of constitutionalism?
Antworten
  • codified and non-codified
  • unitary and federal
  • realism and liberalism
  • presidential and parliamentary

Frage 24

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Which is not an example of a hybrid regime that we discussed?
Antworten
  • Electoral democracies
  • Electoral autocracies
  • competitive authoritiarianism
  • competitive democracies

Frage 25

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Which is not a necessary feature of democracy?
Antworten
  • Accountability
  • Elected government
  • Elections by majority rule
  • Political pluralism

Frage 26

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What is it called when the President and Prime Minister's policies do not coordinate?
Antworten
  • Competitive action problem
  • Constructivist
  • Unitary
  • Cohabitation

Frage 27

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In the Semi-Presidential system, the president is responsible for... (can select more than one)
Antworten
  • Appointing the Prime Minister
  • Policies
  • Dissolving parliament
  • Internal affairs
  • Nominating members of the legislature

Frage 28

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In the Parliamentary system, the prime minister is responsible for... (can select more than one)
Antworten
  • setting the agenda
  • Terminating the parliament
  • organising cabinet committees
  • allocating responsibilities
  • Appointing members of the legislature

Frage 29

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In the Presidential system, the president is responsible for... (can select more than one)
Antworten
  • Dissolving the legislature
  • implementing policies
  • foreign affairs
  • emergencies
  • appointing members of the cabinet

Frage 30

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Which are characteristics of a federal state?
Antworten
  • delegation of powers from central authorities
  • state representation
  • deconcentration of central government employees away from the capital
  • multi-layered with subunits
  • decentralisation of supplementing and executing laws
  • devolution
  • neutral capital
  • necessity of court and judicial review
  • state consent built into constitutional revision process

Frage 31

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Which factors contributed to the emergence of states?
Antworten
  • Social and philosophical changes
  • War
  • Economics
  • Collapse of trading leagues
  • Peace and non-intervention policies
  • Nationalism

Frage 32

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What were the criteria for declaring statehood according to the Montevideo Convention?
Antworten
  • Permanent population
  • UN recognition
  • Nothing
  • Recognition by other states
  • Defined territory
  • A government
  • Capacity to enter into relations with other states
  • International law
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