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Global Politics explores the complex and dynamic interactions among states, international organizations, non-governmental actors, and individuals on the world stage. This course examines key concepts such as power, sovereignty, globalization, conflict, cooperation, and human rights, and analyzes contemporary issues including international security, environmental challenges, economic development, and geopolitical shifts. Through theoretical frameworks and real-world case studies, students develop a comprehensive understanding of the forces shaping global affairs and the challenges and opportunities facing the international community in the 21st century.
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Essentials of Comparative Politics 6th Edition by Patrick H. ONeil
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) What is the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning? Why are both forms of reasoning important in determining correlations and/or causal relationships in comparative politics?
Answer: A good answer will define inductive as starting with evidence and proceeding to hypotheses; deductive as starting with theories/hypotheses and seeking evidence by which to test them.Both forms are important for comparative politics-deductive without inductive is too abstract and not evidence based; inductive without deductive is atheoretical and not generalizable.
Q2) A distinct comparative approach to politics first emerges with the work of A) Marx.
B) Hobbes.
C) Rousseau.
D) Machiavelli.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: States
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Q1) Asymmetric federalism refers to a system in which power is divided unevenly between
A) federal departments or authorities.
B) regional bodies.
C) national and federal bodies.
D) federal and judicial authorities.
Answer: B
Q2) Do you live under a weak or strong state? How do the concepts of autonomy and capacity help in thinking about the categories of strong and weak?
Answer: A good answer will discuss the categories of strong and weak in terms of variation in autonomy (ability/power to act independently)and capacity (ability of the state to ensure basic security and stability).A good answer will also note types of activities that states with high/low capacity and/or high/low autonomy engage in on a regular basis and states that may serve as good examples of each.
Q3) What is the "state" and what are its primary features?
Answer: A good answer will include Weber's definition of the state as a "monopoly of force over a given territory" as well as a discussion of sovereignty,legitimacy,and the state's institutional role in policy making.
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Chapter 3: Nations and Society
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Q1) Ascription occurs when
A) one ethnicity develops negative stereotypes about a rival ethnicity.
B) ethnic conflict enhances ethnic divisions.
C) ethnic identity becomes intertwined with the pursuit of sovereignty.
D) a particular quality or characteristic is assigned at birth.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following statements about ethnicity is accurate?
A) Ascription typically reduces ethnic solidarity.
B) Ethnic solidarity can lessen willingness to share resources with groups that are ethnically different.
C) Ethnic designations typically weaken social solidarity.
D) People typically choose their ethnicities through a process of assimilation.
Answer: B
Q3) Political attitudes refers to views regarding the
A) necessary pace and scope of change in the balance between freedom and equality.
B) intersection and relationship between ethnic and national identities.
C) proper role of elected officials.
D) means by which ethnic or nationalistic conflicts should be settled.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Political Economy
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Q1) Markets can best be defined as
A) government-produced public goods.
B) the interactions between the forces of supply and demand.
C) fixed locations where products are bought and sold.
D) an outmoded form of resource distribution.
Q2) Public goods are best defined as
A) goods, provided or secured by the state, that are available for society and indivisible.
B) goods, provided or secured by the state, that only members of the state and government may use.
C) any goods that exist beyond the sovereignty of a state's borders.
D) any goods that exist solely within the sovereignty of a state's borders.
Q3) Which political-economic system views private property as a form of exploitation?
A) social democracy
B) communism
C) liberalism
D) mercantilism
Q4) In what key ways does social democracy differ from liberalism? In what ways is it similar?
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Chapter 5: Democratic Regimes
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Q1) Which of the following statements about bicameralism is accurate?
A) Bicameralism is typically linked to unitary states, though not exclusively so.
B) Members of lower houses typically serve longer terms than members of upper houses in bicameral systems.
C) Bicameral systems were often retained in modern times to restrict the power of popularly elected lower houses of the legislature.
D) Lower houses are generally weaker than upper houses in bicameral systems.
Q2) Describe the benefits that political parties bring to a democracy.How might the structure of political parties differ between proportional representation systems and single-member district systems?
Q3) The idea of legal institutions to which everyone is subject is known as
A) the reign of democracy.
B) the rule of law.
C) majority rule.
D) the consent of the governed.
Q4) What are the most important differences between a single-member district system and a proportional representation system? Which is more democratic? Which is more efficient?
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Chapter 6: Nondemocratic Regimes
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between civil society and nondemocratic regimes?
A) Nondemocratic regimes wield such power that civil society is irrelevant.
B) Nondemocratic regimes often seek to empower and expand civil society.
C) Nondemocratic regimes attempt to eliminate the idea of the state as an arena for social organization.
D) Elimination of civil society by nondemocratic regimes encourages populism.
Q2) What is the role of elites in fostering nondemocratic rule? Why might a resource-rich state be nondemocratic with low levels of public interest in democracy?
Q3) The nature of Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union is mostly associated with which of the following?
A) patrimonialism
B) rational-legal legitimacy
C) personality cult
D) bureaucratic authoritarianism
Q4) What is the link between civil society and populism in nondemocratic systems? Is the presence of a strong civil society always democratic?
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Chapter 7: Political Violence
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Q1) Which of the following statements best characterizes the relationship between revolution and violence?
A) Revolutions are typically more violent when the government chooses to freely give up its monopoly on violence.
B) In the past most revolutions were nonviolent, but they have become more violent since the end of the Cold War.
C) Revolutions are most often violent, though some argue that nonviolent revolutions have occurred.
D) Revolutions are most likely to involve violence when ethnicity is at the core of the disagreement with the regime.
Q2) The modern concepts of revolution and terrorism can be first traced back to which important modern event?
A) American Revolution
B) French Revolution
C) English Revolution
D) Russian Revolution
Q3) How and under what conditions does religion become a source for political violence?
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Chapter 8: Developed Democracies
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes the nature of integration as it has developed in the European Union?
A) It grew to its present state through a series of incremental agreements negotiated over several decades, including as recently as the 2000s.
B) It largely came into being with a transfer of power resulting from the supranational "constitution moment" of the 1950s.
C) The EU, after decades of integration, has begun to reverse course and devolve some important policy powers back to the member states.
D) Member opposition to relinquishing sovereignty has kept the EU's level of integration largely stagnant since the 1980s.
Q2) The two processes currently bringing the most profound change to developed democracies are
A) autonomy and postrationalism.
B) fragmentation and devolution.
C) integration and autonomy.
D) devolution and integration.
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Chapter 9: Communism and Postcommunism
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Q1) The "cabinet" of the Communist Party as developed in the Soviet Union is generally known as the
A) Politburo.
B) nomenklatura.
C) general secretary.
D) general council.
Q2) For most of his career,Marx generally argued that communist revolution was most likely in
A) countries where capitalism was most advanced.
B) countries with an underdeveloped bourgeoisie.
C) poor countries.
D) Europe.
Q3) How have current governments in Russia and China responded to growing nationalism in their countries?
A) They have tolerated nationalist sentiment without taking overt action.
B) They have sought to emphasize ethnic multiculturalism to reduce nationalism.
C) They have liberalized laws that restrict religious freedom and cultural expression.
D) They have promoted nationalism as a means of maintaining legitimacy.
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Chapter 10: Developing Countries
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Q1) Import substitution is most closely related to which of the following political-economic systems?
A) social democracy
B) mercantilism
C) liberalism
D) communism
Q2) Inequality under imperialism was exacerbated by
A) imperial obsessions with mass literacy.
B) imperial obsessions with religious differences and conversion.
C) imperial obsessions with forefronting racial differences.
D) imperial interest in suppressing nationalist sentiment.
Q3) The concept of a "hothouse economy" is associated with A) liberalization.
B) import substitution.
C) foreign direct investment.
D) communism.
Q4) What is the role of civil society and political engagement in developing a more effective state?
Q5) What is microcredit? Describe the potential benefits and drawbacks of this strategy for economic development?
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Chapter 11: Globalization and the Future of Comparative
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Q1) Rather than a universal process of economic deepening across the globe,much of what we think of as globalization is simply the
A) integration of China into the global market.
B) rise of the Indian economy.
C) liberalization of U.S. trade to allow more imports.
D) integration of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe into the world economy and political order since 1989.
Q2) In which of the following ways does the study of societal globalization differ from that of political globalization?
A) It largely focuses on the development of nonstate and supra-state organizations as rivals to the state.
B) It focuses on the formation of civil society that stretches beyond borders.
C) It largely ignores nationalist movements as part of global culture.
D) It rejects the concept of global cosmopolitanism.
Q3) Some optimists argue that a global cosmopolitanism could pave the way for
A) a global civil society.
B) one world government.
C) "cyber-anarchism."
D) a common world religion.
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