Reference no: EM131633633

QUESTION 1
The primary institution structuring political struggles is

the White House

the military

political protest

the state

the market

QUESTION 2
The example of lung cancer and smoking is used to illustrate

the dangers of tobacco.

the failure of the scientific method.

the ingenuity of German scientists.

gender differences in lung cancer rates.

the search for causal relationships.

QUESTION 3
The fact that welfare states in Sweden and America have different principles, structures, and size illustrates

the qualitative method

the quantitative method

a research hypothesis

the problem of traveling concepts

the strength of the experimental method.

QUESTION 4
That Germany's two major political parties are the successors to the earlier Socialist political movement and Catholic cultural movement illustrates which concept or principle?

Liberalism (capital L)

liberalism (lowercase l)

rational choice

political culture

traveling concepts

QUESTION 5
All of the following characteristics of Germany are relevant for the rational choice approach to political analysis EXCEPT

the German constitution encourages collective goods

German political parties discourage individualistic solutions

the majority of German citizens would question the American distaste for organized interests and collective decision making.

the electoral system yields coalition governments

the electoral system forces political parties to govern together

QUESTION 6
"Which of the following terms encompasses religion, language, and ethnicity?"

state

government

country

nation

sovereignty

QUESTION 7
"Universal literacy, compulsory education, a common alphabet, compulsory military service, and public memorials were all means by which to link the __________ with the ___________."

country; government

government; society

nation; country

state; government

nation; state

QUESTION 8
The ability to capture, imprison, or kill for the sake of public security and order is referred to as

nationalism.

the monopoly on violence.

civil society.

military rule.

authoritarianism.

QUESTION 9
Which of the following statements about state capacity is TRUE?

Governance is possible if the state lacks capacity.

Strong states have unlimited power to enact and enforce their laws.

Among countries with very similar political systems capacity will be similar.

A state with high capacity will be able to govern and enforce laws.

Low capacity states are especially good at collecting taxes.

QUESTION 10
A state that scores high on capacity but low on autonomy is

ineffective at enforcing laws and insulated from special interests.

ineffective at enforcing laws and not insulated from special interests.

effective at enforcing laws and insulated from special interests.

effective at enforcing laws and not insulated from special interests.

not a possibility in actual political life.