The white-dominated Apartheid government in South Africa,
which held power until 1994, is an example of a society best explained by:
A) Marxism.
B) the elite approach.
C) pluralism.
D) the class approach.
Q. 2Regarding the elite, class, and pluralist approaches to explain
policymaking, political scientists tend to:
A) agree that elite theory now most accurately describes most national political systems.
B) conclude that the group approach characterizes the policy process in most contemporary political systems.
C) reject the claim that most societies are characterized by political stratification.
D) disagree about which of the three approaches is most accurate.
Q. 3In the pluralist approach, the government is viewed as a:
A) manager of interactions between competing groups.
B) compliant understructure.
C) complex set of political interest groups.
D) set of actors who dominate the political process.
Q. 4In its mission of maintaining global peace, the United Nations has
_________ over the past 70 years.
A) failed substantially in its efforts to keep the peace
B) generally improved the political climate
C) prevented most potential wars
D) actually caused an increase in the frequency of wars
Q. 5The purpose of the Helsinki Agreement was to:
A) adjudicate geographic boundaries between states.
B) regulate states' use of environmental resources.
C) define unacceptable behavior by combatants during war.
D) negotiate currency exchange rates.
Q. 6Edmund Burke and John Locke strongly differed with each
other over the question of:
A) whether states could agree on a set of universal principles by which to abide.
B) whether a viable world government could ever be formed.
C) whether political violence is ever justified.
D) whether establishment violence is ever justifiable.
Q. 7In the wars since World Wars I and II, the ratio of civilian
deaths to military deaths has:
A) increased substantially.
B) decreased slightly.
C) increased slightly.
D) stayed about the same.
Q. 8In which way is the state least likely to affect the overall
political economy?
A) facilitating the invisible hand of the market
B) acting as a firm
C) regulating the behavior of producers
D) transferring payments to households
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