This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Comparative > Politics > Comparative Politics – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Comparative Politics Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Career minded bureaucrats who administer public policy according to a technical rather than a political rationale. A) Technocrat. B) Academic. C) Specialist. D) Autocrat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Technocrat. 2. Based on the reading, "Three Faces of the Indian State" and material from lecture. Indian democracy is strong. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Which is TRUE about the Article II, Section 2 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution? A) The Philippines will only declare war for preservation and territorial integrity. B) The Philippines will never declare defensive war, only aggressive ones. C) If there is a conflict between international law and the constitution, the international law always prevails. D) The Philippines build a peace and friendly relationship with other countries solely because of the help and support that the other country will give in times of calamities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Philippines will only declare war for preservation and territorial integrity. 4. Define SOCIAL DEMOCRACY A) An electoral district with one seat. B) (1) A political-economic system in which freedom and equality are balanced through the state's management of the economy and the provision of social expenditures; (2) a political ideology that advocates such a system. C) State provision of public benefits, such as education, health care, and transportation. D) Complex human organization; a collection of people bound by shared institutions that define how human relations should be conducted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) (1) A political-economic system in which freedom and equality are balanced through the state's management of the economy and the provision of social expenditures; (2) a political ideology that advocates such a system. 5. Who is called the nominal head of the state? A) President. B) Governor. C) None of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) President. 6. Which one of the following terms refers to when the courts can overturn the laws? A) Judicial review. B) Judicial restraint. C) Life tenure. D) Pardon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Judicial review. 7. Define PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION A) Goods or services that are owned by an individual or a group, privately or publicly. B) An electoral system in which political parties compete in multimember districts; voters choose between parties, and the seats in the district are awarded proportionally according to the results of the vote. C) Goods, provided or secured by the state, available to society, and which no private person or organization can own. D) A statistical tool that attempts to estimate the buying power of income across different countries by using prices in the United States as a benchmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An electoral system in which political parties compete in multimember districts; voters choose between parties, and the seats in the district are awarded proportionally according to the results of the vote. 8. A small elite whose interests and members have been made a part of a single political unit which has a significant impact on policy A) Hierarchical elite. B) Integrated elite. C) Top Elite. D) Political elite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Integrated elite. 9. Political system that features selection to public office via free and fair elections; the right of all adults to vote A) Authoritarian Regime. B) Dictatorship. C) Communist Party-State. D) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Democracy. 10. The most common economic system in the world is a A) Mixed. B) Command. C) Free Market. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mixed. 11. The second sector of an economy, responsible for producing finished goods. A) Service Sector. B) Manufacturing Sector. C) Financial Sector. D) Industrial Sector. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrial Sector. 12. Legislation introduced and approved directly by the electorate A) Initiative. B) Recall. C) Referendum. D) Direct introduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Initiative. 13. What is NOT comparative politics? A) The study of politics in different countries. B) Part of political science. C) The study of comparing different institutions in different countries. D) The study of language and grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The study of language and grammar. 14. Define PARASTATAL A) A process by which a firm moves some of its work to a secondary business outside the home country that can do the work more efficiently or cheaply. B) Industry partially owned by the state. C) A political system in which the roles of head of state and head of government are assigned to separate executive offices. D) A political system in which power flows directly from the ruling political party (usually a communist party) to the state, bypassing government structures. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industry partially owned by the state. 15. The use of power, particularly by the state, to allocate some kind of valued resource among competing groups A) Pork Barrel Spending. B) Distributional Politics. C) Typology. D) Consolidated Democracties. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distributional Politics. 16. What is the name of a change in one variable coinciding with a change in the other? A) Correlation. B) Independent variable. C) Hypothesis. D) Normative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correlation. 17. The ..... provides low-interest loans, no-interest credit, policy advice, and technical assistance to developing countries with the goal of reducing poverty. A) World Bank. B) World Trade Organization. C) United Nations Financial Division. D) European Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) World Bank. 18. Economic System in which the economic decision are made by the producers and consumers. A) Capitalism. B) Socialism. C) Communism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Capitalism. 19. Which of the following ideologies would be labeled as a "liberal" political attitude in North America? A) Liberalism. B) Communism. C) Social democracy. D) Fascism. E) Anarchism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social democracy. 20. POWER. which is the best definition? A) Ability to do work. B) Electric, Nuclear, Hydroelectric. C) Ability to control people and events. D) Strength. 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