What type of authority is based on an established constitution to which the political leaders adhere?
a. Traditional authority
b. Policy authority
c. Charismatic authority
d. Legitimate authority
e. Legal authority
Q. 2This type of authority is based on the leader's ability to inspire the population or make the people feel attached to the leader.
a. Traditional authority
b. Policy authority
c. Charismatic authority
d. Legitimate authority
e. Legal authority
Q. 3An important contribution of Max Weber to political science was
a. developing the comparative method.
b. providing the classic definition of politics who gets what, when, and how..
c. putting the science in political science by asserting that by using methods of scientific inquiry one could find laws of human behavior, just like those of the natural world.
d. identifying and defining three types of authority.
e. leading a movement of some comparative politics scholars to reject causality as central to the study of politics and instead focus on degrees of association between two or more variables.
Q. 4Who first described the long-standing categorization of authority into three types that is still widely used today?
a. Harold Lasswell
b. Donald Tuck
c. Max Weber
d. Henry Kissinger
e. Barrington Moore
Q. 5What type of authority is derived from the widespread belief that a particular family deserves the throne, or even that the monarch has a divine right to rule?
a. Traditional authority
b. Policy authority
c. Charismatic authority
d. Legitimate authority
e. Legal authority
Q. 6Authority is rule based on
a. power.
b. coercion.
c. legitimacy.
d. force.
e. tradition.
Q. 7Legitimacy refers to
a. recognition by other states of the right of a state to control events in the territory over which it claims sovereignty.
b. belief by those obeying commands that those making the commands have the right to rule.
c. a sense that the claims of the researcher about a causal relationship would apply to cases the researcher did not examine.
d. existence of data that are consistent with a theory support that theory.
e. a sense that the claims of the researcher about a causal relationship in the case or cases examined are well-founded.