1 Study of Government
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- Law that is higher than human law is dubbed _____ law
- natural
- In the marxist view, government is a relfection of underlying ______ forces.
- economic
- Max Weber felt that the dominant social and political reality of modern times was that
- All instituition have fallen under the control of large bureacracies
- Weber's theory suggests it would be wise for scholars who want to study power to focus on
- Appointed officials and career government workers
- A pluralist might agree with all of the following except
- mass opinion and the interests of citizens are irrelevant to policy making.
- The fact that people have been willing to die over competing views of public interest suggests that
- such views are more than mere window dressing
- Aristotles notion of democracy is also refered to as
- Direct democracy & Participatory Democracy (B&D)
- In Aristotles view, democracy would consist of
- Participation by all or most citizens in either holding office or making policy
- Which of the following is a basic tenet of representative democracy
- individuals should acquire power through competition for the people's vote
- If you fear the people often decide big issues on the basis of fleeting passions and in response to demagogues, you are likely to agree with
- many framers of the constituition
- Which of the following statements concering power is correct?
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all of the above; its excercize can sometimes be obvious, it can be exercised in subtle ways, it invovles a person getting another person to act in accordance with the first person's wishes
it is found in all human relationships - Which of the following statements about authority is correct?
- it is defined as the right to use power
- Americans seem to agree that the exercise of political power at any level is legitimate only if, in some sense, it is
- Democratic
- The framers of the constituition did not think that the "will of the people" was synonymous with "the public good"
- true
- the framers hoped to create a representative democracy that would act swiftly and accommodate sweeping changes in policy
- false
- Marxist theory sees society as divided into two classes: capitalists and workers
- true
- Weber assigned a significant amount of power to appointed officials in the bureaucracies of modern governments
- true
- Politicws exists in part because people differ about who should govern and the ends toward which they work
- true
- most people holding political power in the US today are middle-class, middle-aged, white protestant males
- true
- much of american political history has been a struggle over what constitutes legitimate authority
- true
- everyone in the ancient Greek city state was eligible to participate in government
- false
- some writers of the Constituiton opposed democracy on the grounds that the people would be unable to make wise decisions
- true