Weber’s ideal type of bureaucracy has all of the following features except?

Weber’s ideal type of bureaucracy has all of the following features except?

• Hierarchical structure• Task specialization• Freedom of action• Political neutrality

• freedom of action

Interest group behavior characterized by a close

relationship between government and key sectors of the economy

and society is?• Pluralism• Elitism• Corporatism• Socialism

• C

Which of the following is not a collective good?

• National parks• Low-income housing• Clean air• Common pastureland

• low-income housing

Which of the following is not true of the British Westminster

Model?• Bicameral parliament• Independently elected prime minister• Crown prerogative foreign policy power• Parliamentary sovereignty

• Independently elected prime minister

Which of the following is disadvantage of PR?

• Leads to gerrymandering• leads to unstable coalitions• wastes votes• excludes third parties

• leads to unstable coalitions

Which of the following is not true of the German political

system?• Bicameral parliament• Independently elected president• Twin-ballot electoral system• Federal structure

• independently elected president

The SMDP electoral system encourages the following except?• Clear political mandates• lower electoral turnout• two party systems• coalition governments

• coalition governments

All of the following characterize personalist (or court) politics

except

• Arbitrary rule• open elite recruitment• competition to access the leader• high levels of nepotism

• open elite recruitment

All of the following are methods to gain political legitimacy

except?

• Force• Tradition• Democracy• Results

• Force

All of the following have formal constitutions except?

• United States• United Kingdom• Iran• Germany

• United Kingdom

Which of the following is an example of a theocracy?

• Pakistan• Saudi Arabia• Iraq• Iran

• Iran

The values and assumptions people hold about politics in

acquired in a process known as

• Political culture• Political development• Political socialization• Political democratization

• Political socialization

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a military regime• Close working relationship with

bureaucracy• Suppression of civil liberties• Emphasis on nationalism• Governmental stability

• governmental stability

Most states have a ____ form of government

• Unitary• Confederation• Federal• Communitarian

• unitary

The goal to promote economic development through the

protection of domestic industry is known as

• Export led growth• Import substitution• World system theory• Autarchy

According to Mancur Olson,

• The smaller the group, the larger the free-rider problem

• the larger the group, the larger the free-rider problem

• small groups are not as effective as large groups• interest groups are on the increase

• B

Nigeria suffers from regionalism. Which description fits best?

• Authoritarian system dominated by one region• Strong ethnic/national identities and weak

support for the state• A confederation of regional states• High economic disparities between regions

• B

Regionalism is a result of

• Economic underdevelopment• socialism• Interstate conflict• colonialism

• colonialism

According to Modernization literature

• All countries pass through the same stages of development

• development has been prevented by colonialism• underdevelopment is an external problem• protectionism will foster development

• A

According to dependency theory, underdevelopment is the result of• The lack of foreign aid• traditional views of government elites• too great a governmental role in the economy• the capitalist class of both the developed and

undeveloped world

• D

Which of the following was not true of the USSR?

• Parliamentary system with regular elections• Real political power exercised through the

Communist Political Party• Federal structure• Low electoral turnout

• low electoral turnout

Which state is not an example of a dominant party state?

• China• Mexico• Japan• India

• China

Communism is

• Rule by a single party• An economic system governed by a political

elite• State ownership of the means of production• Public ownership of the means of production

• D

Populism is

• Government by the people• Direct appeal to the masses• Government control by interest groups• Politics based on personal ties

• direct appeal to the masses

The House of Lords is

• An elected institution• An appointed institution• A hereditary institution• An appointed and elected institution

• An appointed institution

Political parties in Europe are in decline because of?

• Growth of right wing politics• Postmodern values• The European Union• Decline in civic culture

• postmodern values

Conservatism is a philosophy based on

• A belief that individuals are more important than the society they live in

• opposition to the welfare state• the limitation of political power• none of the above

• none of the above

Fascism is based on each of the following except

• Nationalism• Corporatism• Political elite• The volk

• political elite

In most democracies today we find

• Low levels of support for the state• High levels of electoral participation• High levels of political information• High degree of confidence in officials

• high levels of electoral participation

Parliamentary government

• Requires the direct election of a prime minister and a parliament

• provides that the cabinet can be ousted by a vote of parliament

• generally has strong parliamentary committees• generally has some device for constitutional

review• B