A(n) ________ system greatly favors representativeness to the detriment of government effectiveness.
A. one party
B. two party
C. three party
D. four party
E. multiparty
Q. 2A winner-take-all system leads to strong disparities between
a. prime minister and parliament.
b. interest groups and parties.
c. popular votes and seats in a parliament.
d. interest groups and the prime minister.
e. none of the above.
Q. 3A group of citizens which organizes to lobby the government to ensure that certain policies are adopted and adhered to is best defined as a(n) ________.
A. target group
B. reference group
C. economic class
D. interest group
E. focus group
Q. 4Which of the following is true of social movements?
A. All social movements offer concrete enticements to encourage people to
participate.
B. They involve the pursuit of a single or a narrow collection of political interests.
C. They tend to concentrate their activities on the formal institutions of the state.
D. They are relatively informal organizations that tend to have less hierarchical
structures.
E. They are typically exclusive and not all ordinary citizens are allowed to participate in
social movements.
Q. 5A group of citizens form a group which seeks to raise public awareness about the dangers of unhealthy eating habits. This group may best be described as a(n) ________.
A. interest group
B. political party
C. ethnicity
D. social movement
E. economic class
Q. 6If you believe that political identity is largely static throughout time then you would most likely agree with the ________.
A. primordialists
B. interventionists
C. constructivists
D. communists
E. fascists
Q. 7________ assumes that political identities are malleable and suggests that we think of identity as an evolving political process rather than as a fixed set of identity categories.
A. Primordialism
B. Interventionism
C. Constructivism
D. Communism
E. Fascism
Q. 8The population of Elveland is made up of several different cultural groups: English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish. Conflict among these groups along cultural lines would have been predicted by which of the following political theorists?
A. Karl Marx
B. Vilfredo Pareto
C. Adam Smith
D. Robert Malthus
E. Max Weber
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