Political culture can be described as shared
a. environments.
b. beliefs, values, customs.
c. rhetoric.
d. language.
Q. 2The current prime minister David Cameron
a. styles himself as a new brand of Conservative, a compassionate conservative.
b. represents an atypical prime minister having come to power directly from his former position as the mayor of London.
c. is an ex-journalist from a working-class background.
d. advocates more centrist policies only because of his party's being in coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
e. rejects Britain's monarchy, calling for the establishment of a republic in the United Kingdom.
Q. 3One reason for California's structural conflict is _____.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Q. 4The term ____________ refers to the British Coalition Government's governing vision to empower ordinary citizens to take control over their lives and shift the balance of power downward from the state to communities and individual citizens.
a. Big Society
b. Third Way
c. Big Vision
d. Thatcherism
e. Great Society
Q. 5The constancy of individualism suggests a belief in_____ rather than society to fill needs and wants.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Q. 6The term hung government refers to
a. a situation of divided partisan control of the two houses of Parliament.
b. instances where no party can claim by itself the control of a majority of the seats in Parliament.
c. a situation of extreme partisanship within Parliament.
d. the formal veto power of Parliament to reject legislation promoted by the executive.
e. past instances where the British monarch tried to limit the power of Parliament.
Q. 7Hyperpluralism refers to diffused power and group _____.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Q. 8The moniker of New Labour refers to
a. the political party that is in coalition with the Conservative Party in Britain's current government.
b. an attempt by the Labour Party to rebrand itself as a third-way alternative to the collectivism of traditional Labour Party politics and Thatcherism.
c. the Labour Party under the leadership of Gordon Brown.
d. the Labour Party under the leadership of David Miliband.
e. a new party, which formed following a split that developed within the Labour Party due to the leadership's support for the war in Iraq.