This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Comparative > Politics > Comparative Politics – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Comparative Politics Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Deep and long lasting political divisions A) Divergent Interests. B) Separation. C) Schism. D) Cleavage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cleavage. 2. Which of the following is NOT true of citizenship? A) It defines an individual's or a group's relation to the state. B) It is purely political. C) It is more easily changed than ethnicity or national identity. D) It provides the basis for patriotism. E) In the modern era, every state automatically grants citizenship to those born in their territory. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) In the modern era, every state automatically grants citizenship to those born in their territory. 3. This political party represents the dominant party of modern Russia. A) Communist. B) Open Russia. C) A Just Russia. D) United Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) United Russia. 4. In a hypothesis that states that higher poverty levels are caused by lower levels of formal education, what is the dependent variable? A) The poverty level. B) Lower levels of formal education. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lower levels of formal education. 5. Define PUBLIC GOODS 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: C) Goods, provided or secured by the state, available to society, and which no private person or organization can own. 6. The Tea-Party (Conservatives), Black Lives Matter, the Student NonViolent Coordination committee (SNCC), all are more formal examples of this concept A) Social Class. B) Interest Group. C) Social Movement. D) Distributional Politics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social Movement. 7. Apparent association between varying factors or variables, as opposed to causation A) Correlation. B) Qualitative. C) Quantitative. D) Binding ties. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correlation. 8. Define TRADITIONAL LEGITIMACY A) An integrated set of hypotheses, assumptions, and facts. B) A nondemocratic regime that is highly centralized, possessing some form of strong ideology that seeks to transform and absorb fundamental aspects of state, society, and the economy, using a wide array of institutions. C) Legitimacy that accepts aspects of politics because they have been institutionalized over a long period of time. D) Proposed agreement among twelve countries to liberalize trade though reduced tariffs and common regulations. Abandoned by the United States in 2019. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Legitimacy that accepts aspects of politics because they have been institutionalized over a long period of time. 9. In 2010, the Duma extended the Presidential term from 4 to ..... years ..... A) 3. B) 5. C) 6. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6. 10. Define POLITBURO A) An arrangement whereby a ruler depends on a collection of supporters within the state who gain direct benefits in return for enforcing the ruler's will. B) Pride in one's state. C) Literally, restructuring; the policy of political and economic liberalization implemented in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. D) The top policy-making and executive body of a communist party. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The top policy-making and executive body of a communist party. 11. Define SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICT 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: A) An electoral district with one seat. 12. A field and a method used in political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the comparative method A) Comparative Politics. B) International Politics. C) Global Politics. D) Geographical Politics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comparative Politics. 13. Define POLITICAL ATTITUDE A) Description of one's views regarding the speed and methods with which political changes should take place in a given society. B) The basic norms for political activity in a society. C) The study of the interaction between states and markets. D) The basic values held by an individual about the fundamental goals of politics or the ideal balance of freedom and equality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Description of one's views regarding the speed and methods with which political changes should take place in a given society. 14. The appropriate order of leadership, from earliest to most recent is ..... A) Putin, Yeltsin, Brezhnev, Lenin, Stalin. B) Yeltsin, Brezhnev, Stalin, Lenin, Yeltsin. C) Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Putin, Yeltsin. D) Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Putin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Putin. 15. Where is the power located in the unitary government? A) Local/regional governments. B) Power is shared between local and central government. C) Central government. D) There is no government power. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Central government. 16. Define QUALITATIVE METHOD A) Study through an in-depth investigation of a limited number of cases. B) Study through statistical data from many cases. C) A nontariff barrier that limits the quantity of a good that may be imported into a country. D) Those with a political attitude that favors dramatic, often revolutionary change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Study through an in-depth investigation of a limited number of cases. 17. Cleavages that split a society into different groups with regard to different issues are referred to as A) Stabilizing. B) Coinciding. C) Corporatist. D) Subordinate. E) Cross Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Cross Cutting. 18. Define SHOCK THERAPY A) A focus on effects rather than causes, which can lead to inaccurate conclusions about correlation or causation. B) An executive system that divides power between two strong executives, a president and a prime minister. C) The clear division of power among different branches of government and the provision that specific branches may check the power of other branches. D) A process of rapid marketization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A process of rapid marketization. 19. Which term means minimal government involvement in economic affairs A) Let it be. B) Command. C) Marxism. D) Not sure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Let it be. 20. Define SUPRANATIONAL SYSTEM A) All noneconomic institutions in a society (e.g., religion, culture, national identity); these ideas and values derive from the base and serve to legitimize the current system of exploitation. B) An intergovernmental system with its own sovereign powers over member states. C) A tax on imported goods. D) The use of violence by nonstate actors against civilians in order to achieve a politi-cal goal. 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