midterm

Question 1

Know an example of the political game of lion and fox.

Answer 1

Machiavelli’s advice statement on how to govern

Question 2

Know an example of accommodation in politics

Answer 2

Political behavior that seeks a compromise between competing interests and is marked by cooperation, bargaining, and balloting.

Question 3

Know when Khmer Rouge practiced the game of wipeout.

Answer 3

1975 to 1978

Question 4

Know where the Solidarity Party used the game of strike against the Communist Party

Answer 4

Poland

Question 5

Know how to characterize the game of lion and fox.

Answer 5

Game of politics in which a state’s vital interests are at stake and must be protected using both force and craft; political strategy first articulated by Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince.

Question 6

Know the accusations of the Watergate Scandal.

Answer 6

1.attempted burglary Democratic Party’s national headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC in June 1972, Nixon was accused of approving the break-in. 2. August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned his presidency under threat of impeachment.

Question 7

Know how to explain the use of power if it is placed on a continuum

Answer 7

balance, seduce, support. for example carrot and stick

Question 8

Know the perpetrator of the game of destruction in the Soviet Union

Answer 8

stalin

Question 9

Know Machiavelli’s thinking

Answer 9

A prince must be able to be violent and beastly (be a lion to ward of wolves and a fox to recognize traps)

Question 10

Know an example of civil disobedience

Answer 10

Boston tea party

Question 11

Know what Henry David Thoreau specifically directed his arguments for civil disobedience against.

Answer 11

slavery and war

Question 12

Know what the political game of accommodation is marked by.

Answer 12

cooperation, bargaining, balloting

Question 13

Know what political game Athens’s submission of Melos is.

Answer 13

wipeout

Question 14

Know an example of an American terrorist group after the Civil War.

Answer 14

KKK

Question 15

Know if the political games of wipeout, lion and fox, and civil disobedience are prevalent today.

Answer 15

Yes, trump used the lion and the fox when he fired people who went against his policies and instead hired people who he thought were more loyal. Wipeout is Palestine, civil disobedience is people tying themselves to trees so they wont be cut down and the blm protests

Question 16

Know that politics is a process.

Answer 16

(1) public values are articulated, debated, and prescribed; (2) diverse political actors (individuals, interest groups, local or regional governments, and nations) cooperate and struggle for power to satisfy their vital needs, protect their fundamental interests, and advance their perceived desires; and (3) policy judgments are made and implemented

Question 17

Know the basic elements of political games.

Answer 17

clashes and deadly conflicts, mild competition and pacific accommodation, or loving consent and freely given obedience.

Question 18

Know the definition of genocide

Answer 18

systematic mass destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

Question 19

Know when civil disobedience is employed

Answer 19

When there is an outrageous moral evil and it must be done peacefully

Question 20

Know that the worst elements of politics do exist in democracies

Answer 20

war, tyranny, economic ruin, and barbarism

Question 21

Know the nature of political games.

Answer 21

Deceiving and calculated

Question 22

Know who illustrates the twentieth-century pattern of destruction

Answer 22

HItler

Question 23

Know the causes of the fluctuation in terrorist attacks

Answer 23

People get radicalized by the internet

Question 24

Know the subtitle of the game of civil disobedience.

Answer 24

You have to be disobedient but never violent, must be selectively aimed, it must be public

Question 25

Know Athenians view of neutral Melos.

Answer 25

They didn’t like it and later tried to take it over even though Melos wanted a more peaceful justice

Question 26

Know where James Madison’s famous argument on behalf of the “extensive republic” appears.

Answer 26

In the federalist papers

Question 27

Know the dilemma faced by Madison as he crafted a document to replace the Articles of Confederation

Answer 27

He had trouble reconciling liberty and authority in a large state

Question 28

Know if you can or cannot legislate morality.

Answer 28

You cannot because everyone has different morals

Question 29

Know what the German republic that formed after World War I was known as.

Answer 29

Weima republic

Question 30

Know the arguments advanced against the establishment of a naval blockade to prevent the Soviet Union from placing offensive missiles in Cuba.

Answer 30

there were rumors of something being up in Cuba

Question 31

Know the founder that advocated for a strong central government and opposed federalism.

Answer 31

Maddison

Question 32

Know the advisory body that was central to aiding President John F. Kennedy in dealing with the Cuban missile crisis.

Answer 32

ExCom

Question 33

Know about the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Answer 33

after 9/11

Question 34

Know the leader of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.

Answer 34

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 35

Know what Madison’s theory of the extensive republic allowed for.

Answer 35

How Americans should enjoy the best of both worlds of freedom and government

Question 36

Know Socrates answer to “Why should we obey the political community that makes claims on our allegiances?”

Answer 36

Because of the contribution that the political community makes to our life, growth, and fulfillment, we are required to obey its laws.

Question 37

Know the definition of negative freedom.

Answer 37

No restraining force such as the government.

Question 38

Know the city that put Socrates on trial and condemned him to death

Answer 38

Athens

Question 39

Know the name of James Madison’s theory that helped to resolve the question of how liberty and authority could be created in a large country.

Answer 39

madisonian model

Question 40

Know how easily humans are manipulated.

Answer 40

All vulnerable humans can be manipulated

Question 41

know if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction

Answer 41

no because if they did they wouldn't have been raided in the first place

Question 42

Know the three major components of political science

Answer 42

ethical empirical and choice

Question 43

positivism as a philosophy.

Answer 43

phycological approvch that wants to legitimize scientific study of human organization through social studies

Question 44

Know the four basic subfields of political science.

Answer 44

American government and politics, international relations, comparative politics political theory

Question 45

Know who argued that the quest for the “best political order” must be central to political science

Answer 45

Leo strauss

Question 46

Know what political empiricism is concerned with.

Answer 46

Political phenomena is concerned with what has been and what will be and what is

Question 47

Know who developed an integrated prescriptive theory concerned with the importance of making republican values central to his thinking in a large diverse country.

Answer 47

James Madison

Question 48

Know the main focus of the ethical component of political science

Answer 48

the focus of ethics within politics and how what's right isn't always ethical

Question 49

Know an early leader of the post–World War II behavioral revolution in political science.

Answer 49

Philip converse

Question 50

Know what the prudential component of political science is concerned with

Answer 50

practical application of politics

Question 51

Know the largest budget items contributing to the U.S. national debt

Answer 51

defense

Question 52

Know the post-behavioral approach to political science inspired by economics.

Answer 52

Rational choice

Question 53

Know examples of empirical understanding.

Answer 53

based on observation and experience. tracking a plant everyday as it grows

Question 54

Know what David Easton called the “intellectual foundation stones” of behavioralism.

Answer 54

belief in regularities, commitment to verification, emphasis on qualification, knowledge of pure science, systemization, acceptance of political science

Question 55

Know the definition of political theory.

Answer 55

fundamental questions of governance

Question 56

Know what the empirical component of political science investigates.

Answer 56

what goes on in politics and why

Question 57

Know the primary concern of political scientists when examining prudential judgment.

Answer 57

make politics workable and realistic

Question 58

Know who emphasized that there is no division between fact and value in political theory.

Answer 58

John locke

Question 59

Know the leading producer of metals and nonmetallic minerals.

Answer 59

china

Question 60

Know the primary assertion of Karl Marx

Answer 60

power of the ruling class comes in control of the economy

Question 61

Know who wrote Democracy in America.

Answer 61

Alexis Tocqueville

Question 62

Know what the world’s population is projected to be by 2050

Answer 62

9.7 billion

Question 63

Know the primary goal of ISIS

Answer 63

solidify and expand territory

Question 64

know the actual basis for discrimination over most of the world

Answer 64

racism

Question 65

Know the primary consequence of the Industrial Revolution.

Answer 65

there's a gap between the Rich the poor