UCSP - Politics II

Question 1

Words often used to describe politics

Answer 1

• Dirty word
• Trouble
• Disruption
• Deceit

Question 2

Said that “Nothing more than a means of rising in the world.”

Answer 2

Samuel Johnson

Question 3

Said that “The systematic organization is hatred”

Answer 3

Henry Adams

Question 4

• What concerns the state.
• Affairs of the polis
• Cradle of democratic government

Answer 4

Politics art of government

Question 5

Person:

“Politics is not a science but an art”

• Art of government through the making and enforcement of collective decisions.

Answer 5

Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck

Question 6

Person:

“Authoritative allocation of values”

• Authoritative values are therefore widely accepted in society and are considered binding by the mass of citizens.

Answer 6

David Easton

Question 7

“Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.”

“Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.”

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Answer 7

John Emerich E. Dalberg Acton

Question 8

• Political and non-political coincides
• Public realm and private realm conforms to the division between the state and civil society.

Answer 8

Politics as public affairs

Question 8

Politics is seen as a particular means of resolving conflict that is by _____. _____ and negotiation rather than through force and naked conflict.

Answer 8

Politics as compromise and consensus

Question 9

Person:

When social groups and interests possess power they must be conciliated, they cannot be crushed.

Answer 9

Bernard Crick

Question 10

The broadest and the most radical definition of politics

Answer 10

Politics as power

Question 11

The ability to achieve a desired outcome through whatever means.

Answer 11

Power

Question 12

Person:

Political power as merely the organized power of one class for oppressing the other.

Answer 12

Karl Marx

Question 13

branch of philosophy that is concerned, at the most abstract level, with the concepts and arguments involved in political opinion.

Answer 13

Political Philosophy

Question 14

Broadly, however, one may characterize as political all those practices and institutions that are concerned with government.

Answer 14

Political

Question 15

Hammurabi as a representative of God on Earth.

Answer 15

The Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BCE)

Question 16

In the late 4th century BCE, is a set of Machiavellian precepts on how to survive under an arbitrary power.

Answer 16

Chandragupta Maurya

Question 17

In the 6th century BCE there was a code of conduct designed to stabilize society.

Answer 17

Confucius

Question 18

The first elaborate work of European political philosophy is the ______, a masterpiece of insight and feeling, superbly expressed in dialogue form and probably meant for recitation.

Answer 18

Republic of Plato

Question 19

was a scientist rather than a prophet, and his Politics, written while he was teaching.

Answer 19

Aristotle

Question 20

focuses on the observation and explanation of political phenomena and involves formulating and testing hypotheses through experimentation.

Answer 20

Empirical Political Theory

Question 21

focuses on what ought to be and explores the values and ideals of a political system

Answer 21

Normative Political Theory

Question 22

The study of political science seeks to determine what we ought to do. it is concerned with the judgement of good ,bad, right or wrong.

Answer 22

Normative Approach

Question 23

After formulating a hypothesis, a study will be designed to test the hypothesis.

Answer 23

Empirical Theory

Question 24

Person:

Best known as a proponent of limited government. He uses a theory of natural rights to argue that governments have obligations to their citizens, have only limited powers over their citizens, and can ultimately be overthrown by citizens under certain circumstances.

Answer 24

John Locke

Question 25

Person:

He goes on to say that, even with the perspective of the past, humanity cannot dictate future events because thoughts of the past are limited, compared to the possibilities for the future.

Answer 25

David Hume

Question 26

Political science uses a ______________, meaning that political scientists approach their study in an objective, rational, and systematic manner.

Answer 26

Scientific Approach

Question 27

This approach to analysis draws heavily upon the example of economic theory in building up models based upon procedural rules, usually about the rationally self-interested behavior of the individuals involved.

Answer 27

Political-choice theory

Question 28

is a general idea about something usually expressed in a single word or a phrase.

Answer 28

Concept

Question 29

are schematic representations of reality or of one’s view of a possible world, constructed to improve one’s understanding about the world and/or to make predictions.

Answer 29

Models

Question 30

is a proposition , it offers a systematic explanation of a body of empirical data.

Answer 30

Theory

Question 31

A popular theory in political science to explain the actions of voters as well as politicians.

it assumes that they act in their own best interest carefully weighing the cost and benefits of possible alternatives.

Answer 31

Rational-choice theory