Deck 4: Democracy

Question 1

The crucial defining characteristic of democracy is _______________________

Answer 1

accountability.

Question 2

Which of the following are examples of illiberal democracies?

A) France
B) Sweden
C) Canada
D) Singapore

Answer 2

D

Question 3

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
B) Direct democracy
C) Illiberal democracy
D) Democratic elitism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which political thinker recommended that legislators retained independence from their constituents?

A) Edmund Burke
B) Thomas Hobbes
C) John Locke
D) John Stuart Mill

Question 5

Which of the following political thinkers can be regarded as democrats? Please select all that apply.

A) Jeremy Bentham
B) John Locke
C) Thomas Hobbes
D) John Stuart Mill

Question 6

Who wrote Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy?

A) Anthony Downs
B) John Stuart Mill
C) Joseph Schumpeter
D) Michael Schumacher

Question 7

Which of the following political theorists advocated a participatory model of democracy? Please select all that apply.

A) Jean Jacques Rousseau
B) G. D. H. Cole
C) Carole Pateman
D) John Stuart Mill

Question 8

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 _______________________'

Question 9

In Anthony Downs's Economic Theory of Democracy voters are regarded as:

A) Consumers
B) Producers
C) Ill-informed
D) Easy to manipulate

Question 10

Which of the following contribute to criticism of the economic theory of democracy?

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.

Question 11

Anthony Downs's Economic Theory of Democracy is an example of the application of which model in political science?

A) Behaviouralism
B) Normative analysis
C) Historical institutionalism
D) Rational choice theory

Question 12

Consociational democracy involves…

A) Devolving power to local governments.
B) The sharing of power in divided societies.
C) Sharing power between a monarchy and parliament.
D) Associations between businesses.

Question 13

What are the three assumptions traditionally made about democracy?

A) Democracy is about the aggregation of preferences.
B) Democracy only applies to the political unit of the nation state.
C) Democracy is irreconcilable with capitalism.
D) Membership of the political community is settled (since there is universal suffrage).

Question 14

Cosmopolitan theories of democracy focus on which of the following? Please select all that apply.

A) The state
B) The global community
C) Local authorities
D) Regional parliaments

Question 15

Which of the following are positive rights? Please select all that apply.

A) Right to liberty
B) Right to life
C) Right to property
D) Right to education