Midterm Exam INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE 100

The following are the ‘three faces of power’

A. Decision-making; Agenda setting; thought control

B. Decision-making; thought control; programming

C. Thought control; programming; governance

5. Ethnocentrism Is superiority as a nation and or community

Agree

Strongly disagree

18. Democracy is stable when there is a mix of participant subject and parochial cultures

Agree

Neither agree nor disagree

Disagree

24. Which of the following ideologies view human nature is the most optimistic terms

A. Anarchists

B. Liberalists

C. Socialists

D. Fascists

The meaning of CORPORATISM IS

A. Is the third way-an alternative to socialism and capitalism

B. Claims that labor and the businesses are complementary to each other

C. Both of the above are true

D. None of the above are true

35. Xenophobia is best defined as a fear of the ‘other’

Agree

Strongly disagree

38. Legal-rational authority is best defined as:

A. Legal law-based authority

B. An authority which basis its foundation on the idea of subjective study

C. A form of authority which believes in looking at things from a personal perspective

NONE OF THE ABOVE

40. Statism is the belief that state intervention is not the most appropriate means of resolving political problems or brining about economic and social development

TRUE

FALSE

42. Benedict Anderson points out that nations are (…..) and (………..) is required

B. Imagined communities, face to face interaction

Political idea, revolution

D. Identity groups, networking

45. The main difference between a nation and an ethnic community is that:

A. The former can be defined objectively while the latter can only be defined subjectively

B. The former has political aspirations while the latter does not

C. The latter maintains cultural pride while the former does not

ALL OF THE ABOVE

48. The propaganda model put forward by Noam Chomsky is applicable to (……) and is based on the following (……….)

A. Mass Media: ownership of the medium, funding, sourcing, flak

B. Model media: ownership of medium, funding, sourcing,

C. Political economy, ownership

ACCORDING TO THE LINEAR POLITICAL SPECTRUM FROM FAR LEFT TO FAR RIGHT. FASCISM IS AN EXTREME RIGHT WING

TRUE

FALSE

ACCORDING TO LINEAR POLITICAL SPECTRUM COMMUNISM IS EXTREME FAR LEFT IDEOLOGY

TRUE

FALSE

WHICH THREE CHARACTERISTICS CAN INFLUENCE IDEOLOGY

TIME, CRISIS, CLASS

TIME, CLASS AND MUSIC

TIME, CRISIS, REVOLUTION

ALL OF THE ABOVE

CLASSICAL LIBERALISM FOCUSED MORE ON ECONOMICS THAN BASIC FREEDOMS

TRUE

FALSE

FALSE CONCIOUSNESS IS

CREATED BY THE bourgeois in society

Does not exist

Created by the masses

Is insgnificant

According to political pluralists, the proper role of the state is to:

A. Adjudicate between the claims of freely-competing groups.

B. Provide jobs for as many bureaucrats as possible.

C. Stand up against big groups and try to make them smaller.

D. Stand up against big groups and try to make them smaller.

Minimal States have the following feature

Limited role of government

Nations within the state are controlled

They don't exist

Are everywhere

(…..... .) a way of thinking that prevents a person from perceiving the true nature of their

A. False consciousnessc.

C. Media bias

Utilitarianism

According to Karl Marx the superstructure of society such as Religion, Education, Family are all determined by the economic base.

True

False

46. Which of the following is NOT true about ideology?

A. The term has historically carried pejorative connotation

B. It links political theory to practice

C. Its importance is declining in modern political systems with electoral competitions

D. All a, b and c are true about ideology

41. Which factors can lead to a failed State except?

A. Social dislocation

B. Colonialism

C. Political independence social educational development delayed

D. Failed states are a non-existent and only a political myth.

The Nation-State faces these challenges except.

A. International and external challenges from growing power of supranational bodies.

B. Advancement of economic and cultural globalization

C. Need to find international solutions to environmental crisis

C. Need to find international solutions to environmental crisis d. Need to end civic consciousness

35. Xenophobia is best defined as a fear of the ‘other’

True

False

34. All the following approaches are adopted in the study of politics as an academic discipline except,

A. Political philosophy or normative theory

B. Empirical tradition

C. Behavioral analysis, rational-choice theory

D. Politics is only concerned with the study of the domestic sphere and disregards the international sphere.

State of nature is all of the following except

Nature is all of the following except a. A pre political society

B. Unrestrained freedom

C. Absence of established authority

D. Raw form of society which existed for man

E. Established and public rules of social contract backed by machinery of the state the police courts and prisons

The future of Global politics is headed towards a socialist form of government

Very Likely

Very Unlikely

Following is the name of the Hindu Nationalist Party which Modi ascribes to

RSS

Bollywood

RSA

PPP

Religion was considered the earliest form of an 'ideology'

True

False

The 'Neo' in Liberalism transforms the ideology into an economic one

True

False

Volkeigst means the following

Spirit of the people

Fear of the people

All of the above

The greek term 'polis' means

City state

Auditorium

Greek theatre

Never existed

Anti-semitism is

Extreme hatred towards jews

Extreme hatred towards kings

Extreme hatred towards women

All of the above

As students of Politics we should be all of the following except

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