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In a classic study V.O. Key in the 1950s, differences in political opinion were closely associated with |
Occupation
Race
Gender
Ethnicity
Education levels
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The Framers of the Constitution understood that______would be the chief source of opinion on most matters |
The general public
Elected representatives
Factions and interest groups
political theorists and educators
Intellectuals
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Which of the following was intended to serve as a check on public opinion? |
Representative government
Federalism
Separation of powers
An independent judiciary
All of above
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| 4 |
Public Opinion is |
An opinion that you talk to your neighbor about daily: gossips, chitchat
An opinion by you directly spoken to the president of United States
An opinion consists of people's views concerning any issues
An opinion consists of people's views concerning any issues
An opinion which displays objective views regarding any political issues
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| 5 |
A representative democracy is the suitable government for elements of laws that are consistent with |
Public opinion
Regional aspiration
Principal of liberty
Market forces
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| 6 |
The central notion of citizenship as having the capacity to bear arms, to own property and for self-government is considered fundamentally flawed by which of the following groups of political theorists? |
Anarchists
Communitarians
Neo-liberals
Feminists
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| 7 |
How do American political parties meet the definition of a party? |
They are centralized
The ensure cohesion in policymaking
They control those who run under thier
They recruit and support candidates for political office
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| 8 |
The 'first-past-the post' electoral system refers to |
A system of proportional representation of weighted voting in a multi-member constituency
Single ballot, plural member majority voting system
An electoral system in which the person winning the most votes of the votes cast in a constituency(single ballot, single member) is declared elected
A system in which the winning candidate has to secure a plurality as well as majority of the votes cast
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| 9 |
Mary Kaldor (2006) argues that globalization processes lie at the heart of many 'new wars'. Which of the following is not an example of the increasing globalization of conflict? |
The presence of diaspora volunteer fighters
The recourse of combatants to small-scale guerrilla tactics
The involvement of international NGOs
The role of multinational United Nations peacekeeping troops
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In many contemporary conflicts, attempts are made to protect soldiers, often at the expense of civilian lives, in order to minimize coverage of fatalities . how are such conflicts described? |
Degenerate wars
Genocides
Illegal wars
risk- transfer wars
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What does Martin Shaw put at the center of his definition of war |
Rules of conduct in conflict
A formal declaration of intent by governments
Organized killing
Mobilization of civilians
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| 12 |
What is the main consequence of well-defined 'ethnies ' existing within established nation states? |
Nations without states
Multiculturalism
A cultural ' melting pot'
Separate institutions
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| 13 |
What name did Norbert Elias give to the dynamic of competition between social units that eventually gave rise to a nation state? |
The absolutist mechanism
the decivilizing process
The monopoly mechanism
The courtization process
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| 14 |
Compared with the state formation process in industrialized countries, which one of the following created major problems for developing societies? |
The lack of a strong work ethic
The legacy of economic mismanagement by local leaders
The lack of a democratic culture
The legacy of colonialism
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What do 'separatist' movements around the workd seek to achieve? |
Recognition of the equal rights of an ethnic group within a nation state
The creation of an independent nation state
The expulsion of an ethnic group's from a disputed region
Acceptance of an ethnic group's right to use a separate, minority language
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| 16 |
In which US state must a woman obtain written permission from her husband to wear false teeth? |
Texas
Vermont
Massachusetts
None of these
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| 17 |
In how many US states did same-sex marriage become immediately legal in June 2013? |
13
30
50
None of these
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| 18 |
Who stated that 'war is the continuation of political intercourse by other means'? |
Carl von Clausewitz
Martin Shaw
Karl marx
Mary Kaldor
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| 19 |
The term terrorism has its origins in |
The Roman Empire
Revolutionary france
Nazi Germany
The Eglish Civil War
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| 20 |
Which of the following is a nation without a state |
Tibet
Israel
Belgium
all of these
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