This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Political Science > Comparative > Politics > Comparative Politics – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Comparative Politics Quiz 6 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When a leader's ideas and personality result in the state's power being accepted by the public as right ad good. A) Charismatic Legitimacy. B) Traditional Legitimacy. C) Regime. D) Rational-Legal Legitimacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charismatic Legitimacy. 2. Pride in one's people and the belief that they have their own sovereign destiny that is separate from others is called A) Ethnicism. B) Fascism. C) Patriotism. D) Nationalism. E) Fundamentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nationalism. 3. The geopolitical practice of using capitalism, business globalization, and cultural imperialism to control a country instead of direct military control or indirect political control. A) Globalization. B) Neo-colonialism. C) Interdependence. D) Capitalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neo-colonialism. 4. Nike shoes being produced in Vietnam and other third world countries is the result of this interconnected relationship where countries' economies are closely tied and dependent on each other. A) Globalization. B) Political Economy. C) Neoliberalism. D) Economic Dependency Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Globalization. 5. Who chooses the Prime Minister in a Parliamentary system of government? A) The People. B) The Parliament. C) The Electoral College. D) The King. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Parliament. 6. Democratic political system that have been solidly and stably established for an ample period of time ..... A) Socialist Democratic. B) Authoritarian Regime. C) Consolidated Democracy. D) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consolidated Democracy. 7. This political party dominates the politics of Northern England; garnering much of their support from Labour unions, workers, and the lower SES population A) Labour Party. B) UKIP. C) Conservatives. D) Liberal Democrats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) UKIP. 8. A researcher has recently been asked to give advice about how to increase the percentage of female legislators. She theorizes that the electoral system impacts the percentage of female legislators. Given her theory, choose the proper independent variable, dependent variable, and hypothesis. A) IV:Level of Democracy, DV:Percentage of Female Legislators, H:In democracies there will be higher percentages of female legislators. B) IV:Electoral System, DV:Percentage of Female Legislators, H:In PR systems there will be higher percentages of female legislators. C) IV:Percentage of Female Legislators, DV:Electoral System, H:In PR systems there will be higher percentages of female legislators. D) IV:Ballot Type DV:Percentage of female legislators, H:When a party uses an open-list there will be more female legislators. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) IV:Electoral System, DV:Percentage of Female Legislators, H:In PR systems there will be higher percentages of female legislators. 9. Deep and long lasting political divisions A) Divergent Interests. B) Cleavage. C) Separation. D) Schism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cleavage. 10. 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. 11. This political party represents the dominant party of modern Russia. A) United Russia. B) Open Russia. C) Communist. D) A Just Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) United Russia. 12. In a hypothesis that states that higher poverty levels are caused by lower levels of formal education, what is the dependent variable? A) Lower levels of formal education. B) The poverty level. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lower levels of formal education. 13. 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. 14. The Tea-Party (Conservatives), Black Lives Matter, the Student NonViolent Coordination committee (SNCC), all are more formal examples of this concept A) Distributional Politics. B) Social Movement. C) Social Class. D) Interest Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social Movement. 15. Apparent association between varying factors or variables, as opposed to causation A) Qualitative. B) Correlation. C) Binding ties. D) Quantitative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correlation. 16. 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. 17. In 2010, the Duma extended the Presidential term from 4 to ..... years ..... A) 6. B) 3. C) 5. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. A field and a method used in political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the comparative method A) Global Politics. B) Geographical Politics. C) International Politics. D) Comparative Politics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comparative Politics. 21. 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. 22. The appropriate order of leadership, from earliest to most recent is ..... A) Yeltsin, Brezhnev, Stalin, Lenin, Yeltsin. B) Putin, Yeltsin, Brezhnev, Lenin, Stalin. C) Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Putin, Yeltsin. D) Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Putin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Putin. 23. 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. 24. Define QUALITATIVE METHOD A) Those with a political attitude that favors dramatic, often revolutionary change. B) Study through an in-depth investigation of a limited number of cases. C) A nontariff barrier that limits the quantity of a good that may be imported into a country. D) Study through statistical data from many cases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Study through an in-depth investigation of a limited number of cases. 25. Cleavages that split a society into different groups with regard to different issues are referred to as A) Cross Cutting. B) Corporatist. C) Subordinate. D) Coinciding. E) Stabilizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cross Cutting. 26. 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. 27. 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. 28. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An intergovernmental system with its own sovereign powers over member states. 29. A system of personnel selection in which the party in power maintains control by appointing officials to leadership positions from within the party itself. A) Nomenclature. B) Vanguard PArty. C) Sylvoki. D) Collectivism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nomenclature. 30. LARGE N ANALYSIS. which is the best definition? A) A research method in which the scholar looks deeply into a small number of units of analysis. B) A research method in which the scholar looks at a large set of units of analysis. C) A research method in which the scholar interviews people. D) A research method in which the scholar reads and takes notes on a wide variety of books. 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