Comp Pol Midterms I and II

Which of the following is NOT one of the legitimacy types developed by Max Weber in ‘Politics as a Vocation’?

Rational-legal legitimacy

Charismatic legitimacy

Traditional legitimacy

Cultural legitimacy

In ‘Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade,’ what are the components of the three-factor model that Rogowski uses to explain political effects of exposure to trade?

Security, education, and healthcare

Military, economy, and culture

Land, labor, and capital

Ethnicity, religion, and language

Which of the following actions does a central bank perform?

All are true

Control the amount of money in the economy

Lower the interest rate to stimulate the economy

Control the cost of borrowing money

None are true

Which of the following states has been considered a failed state in the past?

The United Kingdom

The United States

None are true

India

According to J. Herbst in ‘War and the State in Africa,’ which of these conditions account for states weakness in Africa?

Which if the following is NOT a tool of mercantilism

Keeping interest rates low to encourage borrowing and investment

Maintaining a strong welfare state

Championing specific industries and businesses in the economy

State ownership of industries deemed crucial for the state interest

Use of tariffs and non-tariff barriers

Fundamentalism is an ideology that believes in

Religion's central role in private life

Simply a greater role of spirituality in politics

Making religious doctrine the guide for policy making within the state

Religious conservatism

Which of the following is correct about the House of Representatives of the United States?

The filibuster remains a central tool for consensus building

The allocation of the seats reflects the relative size of the population of each state

Its representatives are more likely to vote across party lines (bipartisan)

It is structurally more decentralized than the Senate

Which of the following is correct about India's democracy?

Its constitutional monarchy is based on the UK model

All are true

It represents a classic example of democracy with high literacy and large urban population

It is based on diverse class, language, religion, and ethnic cleavages

It is highly centralized across all aspects of public policy and decision making

Inflation occurs when _______ is/are greater than _______

Exports, imports

Demand, supply

Supply, demand

Imports, exports

Which of the following states most closely fits the ideal model of a nation-state?

Which of the following is a tool used by states to restrict imports?

Tariffs

Quotas

Nontariff regulatory barriers

All

According to Adam Smith in Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which of the following is NOT among the important duties of the sovereign (state)?

Protecting society from violence and invasion

Regulating domestic industry

Establishing administration of justice

Maintaining public works and public institutions

The Crown of the United Kingdom does NOT:

Represent the historical continuity of the state

Depend on financial subsidies of the government

Select the head of the government from a political party s/he favors

Represent the head of the state

Which of the following historical events represents the beginning of a modern state in Japan?

Taika Political Reform

Pacific War

Meiji Restoration

Taisho Democracy

According to Fearon and Laitin in ‘Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War,’ which of the following is true about civil wars?

Civil wars usually occur in areas where ethnic grievances are minimal.

Civil wars are most likely to occur in environments that favor insurgency.

Prevalence of civil wars in 1990s was due to the end of Cold War.

High ethno-religious diversity is sufficient to make a country more prone to civil war.

Political attitudes______.

All

Describe beliefs about the best or necessary mode of achieving political change

Are concerned with the ideal relation between freedom and equality for all individuals

Usually have similar ideological and political implications in different countries

Are built over time out of a set of ideas

Which of the following forms of legitimacy did NOT predate the modern state?

Monarchical legitimacy

Rational-legal legitimacy

Traditional legitimacy

Charismatic legitimacy

The most basic struggle in politics, according to our textbooks, is the struggle between____

State and society

Regionalization and globalization

Power and identity

Freedom and equality

The Council of States is weak relative to the House of the People in India because…

The Council of States is actually more powerful/influential than the House of the

The House of the People is significantly older

The Council of States’ cannot initiate legislation

The Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible only to the House of the People

The United Kingdom has what kind of power distribution?

Pure unitary state

Devolved unitary state

Federal State

Asymmetric federal state

According to Acemoglu in ‘Root Causes: Assessing the Role of Institutions in Economic Development,’ which of the following is the fundamental cause of differences in economic prosperity between states?

Quality of institutions

Multi-party elections

Military Strength

Geography and climate

In ‘The New Nature of Nation-state Failure,’ Rotberg does NOT argue that…

Failed states are unable to provide security across the whole of their domains.

A collapsed state is an extreme version of a failed state.

All the states that have experienced state failure since 1990s are in Africa.

Steep declines in national and per capita levels of GDP is indicator of state failure.

Social democratic ideology _____.

Tries to balance equality and freedom

Strongly favors freedom over equality

Does not address notions of equality or liberty

Tries to increase the state’s power vis-à-vis other states

Strongly favors equality over freedom

State autonomy is:

The ability of a state to provide basic services to and secure the security of its citizens

The formal and legal independence of the state

The ability of the state to wield power independent of public and international actors

Is found only in autocratic states in which governments are not constrained by voters

The ability to influence international actors through diplomacy or war

Which of the following combinations of capacity and internal autonomy best fits the United States?

Low autonomy, high capacity

Low autonomy, low capacity

High autonomy, high capacity

High autonomy, low capacity

The ‘Iron Triangle’ metaphor is used to describe the alliances among which of the following in Japan?

Military, business interests and the banking sector

Citizens, bureaucrats and government

Politicians, bureaucrats and big business

This is not a term used in reference to Japan

According to Adam Smith, in Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, how does the division of labor increase productivity?

It allows the state to produce all its products domestically

It improves the quality of the goods produced, increasing marketability

It leads to specialization and more efficient use of people and time

It leads to increases in individual worker moral and commitment

In the modern era, the United Kingdom is an example of a state based solely on traditional legitimacy.

Strong states necessarily have both a high degree of capacity and a high level of autonomy.

The core tenets of political ideologies vary dramatically across countries/contexts.

Citizenship is automatically given to those who are born within a state’s territory in all democratic countries.

Deductive reasoning involves starting with a puzzle and then generating a hypothesis about cause and effect to test against a number of cases.

Comparative advantage is the ability to produce a particular good or service more efficiently than other countries.

In ‘Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War,’ Fearon and Laitin argue that civil war has been a far greater problem than interstate war since 1945.

Traditional legitimacy is built on the force of ideas and the presence of a leader.

The modern United Kingdom’s House of Lords is comprised of peers selected by citizens.

In ‘Economic versus Cultural Differences,’ Baldwin and Huber find that between-group inequality (BGI) is more important than diversity in explaining low levels of public goods provisioning, which can cause ethnic conflict.

In ‘War and the State in Africa,’ J. Herbst concludes that African states are likely to remain weak and struggle to overcome the issues of state development and consolidation.

In ‘Root Causes: Assessing Role of Institutions in Econ. Development,’ Acemoglu argues that the prosperity of a country is more influenced by its geography rather than its institutions.

In the ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations,’ Adam Smith argues that the greatest improvement in the productive powers of labor is the use of ‘competitive advantage’ in the organization of production.

Historically, ‘federalists’ in the United States endorsed the allocation of substantive power from the federal government to the local authorities.

Markets are deliberately created by the state and hence can be controlled by the state.

Match each political-economic systems with characteristic attribute - social democracy

Match the structure of the political system to the appropriate country - unitary parliamentarism

Match the structure of the political system to the appropriate country - Federal parliamentarism

Match the structure of the political system to the appropriate country - Federal presidentialism

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