Ch.10 Institutions And States Test Bank Answers 1st Edition - Politics 1e | Exam Pack by Ferdinand by Peter Ferdinand. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 09 Test Bank
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 01
01) What are the main features of a political institution? Please select all that apply.
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a. Regular patterns of collective behaviour.
b. Formalized rules of membership.
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 02
02) Political institutions cause policy outcomes: true or false? (For example, do first-past-the-post systems cause majority governments?)
a. True
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b. False
Page reference: 236–7
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 03
03) President Kim Jong Il of North Korea is an institution.
a. True
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b. False
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 04
04) Is the state an abstract or a concrete term for political authority?
a. Abstract.
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b. Concrete.
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c. Both abstract and concrete.
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Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 05
05) The European state spread around the world because of its moral superiority.
a. True
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b. False
Page reference: 238–9
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 06
06) Japan and Turkey adopted European forms of state organization because they were colonized.
a. True
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b. False
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Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 07
07) According to Finer, which of the following innovations in government can be attributed to the American Revolution? Please select all that apply.
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a. Using a convention to formulate a new form of government.
b. A written constitution.
c. A bill of rights.
d. Separation of powers.
e. Division of powers between national and state governments.
f. Declaration of Natural Rights of Man based upon the General Will.
g. Nationalism.
h. Citizen armies.
i. Neo-absolutism.
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 08
08) Which are the main features of the Westphalian system of international relations? Please select all that apply.
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a. Sovereignty of states.
b. Equality between states.
c. States have the right to intervene in the affairs of others to save human life.
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 09
09) Borders were unimportant to traditional rulers in Africa and Asia.
a. True
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b. False
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Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 10
10) The modern state is exclusively concerned with promoting the public interest.
a. True
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b. False
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Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 11
11) If the state operates primarily as a tool in the hands of some group or groups in society at large, it reinforces authoritarianism.
a. True
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b. False
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Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 12
12) According to Rotberg, a modern state is expected to do more than just provide its citizens with human security, a predictable system of dispute settlement, clear laws, and the freedom to participate in politics.
a. True
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b. False
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Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 13
13) Which of the following regions are mainly populated by ‘weak’ states? Select all that apply.
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a. Sub-Saharan Africa.
b. Middle East.
c. Eastern Europe.
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 14
14) Somalia is a weak state under which there is no central authority.
a. True
Page reference: 254 (Box 10.5)
b. False
Page reference: 254 (Box 10.5)
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 10 - Question 15
15) In the textbook, Somalia is given as the example of a failed state. Pick one of the states listed on page 251 (from the list provided by Fund for Peace) and assess whether or not they meet the criteria for a failed state.
a. A model answer would identify what the core elements of a strong state are (human security; predictable, recognizable, systematized methods of settling disputes and regulating the norms and prevailing mores of a society; and freedom to engage in political life. It would then test the chosen state against the absence of each of these criteria. Ideally, the ultimate final answer to the ‘is it or not?’ question would be a percentage, such as ‘Right now, the Central African Republic does not meet criterion 1 for a strong state, and only partially meets criterion 2. It is too quick to call the CAR a failed state though, because…’
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