Chapter 4 Democracy Exam Questions - Politics 1e | Exam Pack by Ferdinand by Peter Ferdinand. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 04 Test Bank
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 01
01) The crucial defining characteristic of democracy is _______________________
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a. accountability.
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 02
02) Which of the following are examples of illiberal democracies?
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a. France
b. Sweden
c. Canada
d. Singapore
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 03
03) Which of the following forms of government is defined by the statement ‘all should be involved in legislating, in deciding on general policy, in applying laws and in governmental administration’?
a. Representative democracy
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b. Direct democracy
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c. Illiberal democracy
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d. Democratic elitism
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 04
04) Which political thinker recommended that legislators retained independence from their constituents?
a. Edmund Burke
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b. Thomas Hobbes
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c. John Locke
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d. John Stuart Mill
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 05
05) Which of the following political thinkers can be regarded as democrats? Please select all that apply.
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a. Jeremy Bentham
b. John Locke
c. Thomas Hobbes
d. John Stuart Mill
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 06
06) Who wrote Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy?
a. Anthony Downs
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b. John Stuart Mill
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c. Joseph Schumpeter
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d. Michael Schumacher
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 07
07) Which of the following political theorists advocated a participatory model of democracy? Please select all that apply.
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a. Jean Jacques Rousseau
b. G. D. H. Cole
c. Carole Pateman
d. John Stuart Mill
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 08
08) Complete Joseph Schumpeter’s definition of democracy: ‘That institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a _______________________’
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a. competitive struggle for the people’s vote.
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 09
09) In Anthony Downs’s Economic Theory of Democracy voters are regarded as:
a. Consumers
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b. Producers
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c. Ill-informed
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d. Easy to manipulate
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 10
10) Which of the following contribute to criticism of the economic theory of democracy?
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a. Voters choose to support a party on the basis of their perceptions of that party’s particular policies.
b. Support for a party is unlikely to change even when the party’s policies change.
c. Politicians are merely vote-maximizers.
d. Although people know that their vote will not make a difference to the result, they still vote.
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 11
11) Anthony Downs’s Economic Theory of Democracy is an example of the application of which model in political science?
a. Behaviouralism
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b. Normative analysis
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c. Historical institutionalism
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d. Rational choice theory
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 12
12) Consociational democracy involves…
a. Devolving power to local governments.
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b. The sharing of power in divided societies.
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c. Sharing power between a monarchy and parliament.
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d. Associations between businesses.
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 13
13) What are the three assumptions traditionally made about democracy?
a. Democracy is about the aggregation of preferences.
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b. Democracy only applies to the political unit of the nation state.
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c. Democracy is irreconcilable with capitalism.
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d. Membership of the political community is settled (since there is universal suffrage).
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 14
14) Cosmopolitan theories of democracy focus on which of the following? Please select all that apply.
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a. The state
b. The global community
c. Local authorities
d. Regional parliaments
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Title: Chapter 04 - Question 15
15) Which of the following are positive rights? Please select all that apply.
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a. Right to liberty
b. Right to life
c. Right to property
d. Right to education