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