Deck 12: Politics: Power and Authority

Question 1

Berger suggests that is the ultimate foundation of any political order.

A) tradition
B) violence
C) politics
D) power
E) authority

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Symbolic interactionists and feminists use which term to refer to the exercise of power in everyday life?

A) Macropolitics
B) Coercion
C) Authority
D) Micropolitics
E) Power

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Early city-states were headed by a king or queen. Which term refers to this form of government?

A) Oligarchy
B) Theocracy
C) Patriarchy
D) Monarchy
E) Democracy

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which term refers to the ability to carry out one's will, even over the resistance of others?

A) Authority
B) Micropolitics
C) Coercion
D) Power
E) Macropolitics

Question 5

Which kind of authority is based on an individual's outstanding traits that attract followers?

A) Bureaucratic
B) Charismatic
C) Rational-legal
D) Traditional
E) Coercive

Question 6

Rational-legal authority is also known as .

A) coercive authority
B) bureaucratic authority
C) traditional authority
D) illegitimate authority
E) ideal authority

Question 7

Leaders sometimes have a combination of the ideal types of leaders. The Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran was an example the overlap of which kinds of authority?

A) Charismatic and rational-legal
B) Traditional and rational-legal
C) Charismatic and traditional
D) Charismatic and coercive
E) Rational-legal and coercive

Question 8

Which term refers to a system of government in which authority derives from the people?

A) Theocracy
B) Monarchy
C) Oligarchy
D) Democracy
E) Patriarchy

Question 9

Which term refers to the exercise of large-scale power?

A) Mesopolitics
B) Micropolitics
C) Macropolitics
D) Coercion
E) Authority

Question 10

Max Weber used which term to refer to legitimate power?

A) Coercion
B) Authority
C) Domination
D) Macropolitics
E) Micropolitics

Question 11

Which kind of authority has been the most common throughout history?

A) Rational-legal
B) Charismatic
C) Divine
D) Coercive
E) Traditional

Question 12

The authority of the Prime Minister in Canada is based on which kind of authority?

A) Divine
B) Coercive
C) Traditional
D) Charismatic
E) Rational-legal

Question 13

Which term did Weber use to refer to the transition of authority from a charismatic leader to rational-legal authority?

A) Ideology shift
B) Bureaucratization
C) Routinization of charisma
D) Rationalization
E) Legitimation

Question 14

Which term refers to armed resistance with the intention of overthrowing a government?

A) Revolution
B) Strike
C) National protest
D) Civil disobedience
E) Riot

Question 15

The authority of England's Queen Elizabeth is based on which kind of authority?

A) Traditional
B) Coercive
C) Charismatic
D) Rational-legal
E) Divine

Question 16

Which kind of authority is based on written rules?

A) Charismatic
B) Democratic
C) Rational-legal
D) Traditional
E) Customary

Question 17

Of the following situations, which would be an example of authority?

A) A person insisting that his or her friend attend a particular movie
B) A teacher requiring a research paper in his or her class
C) You telling your little brother that he cannot stay up to watch a movie with you because it's past his bedtime
D) A playground bully making a person get off the swings
E) A mugger who shoves a gun in a person's back and demands his or her money

Question 18

Which term refers to power that we do not accept as morally correct?

A) Violence
B) Coercion
C) Charisma
D) Tradition
E) Parental authority

Question 19

The authority of Joan of Arc was based on which kind of authority?

A) Coercion
B) Charismatic
C) Traditional
D) Rational-legal
E) Religious

Question 20

Carl lives in a small town in the Midwest. He and the other residents attend monthly town meetings. At these meetings they publicly vote on issues concerning the town. These monthly town meetings are an example of _ democracy.

A) total
B) universal
C) direct
D) indirect
E) representative

Question 21

The euro is now the single cross-national currency, with only one exception:

A) Kosovo.
B) Cyprus.
C) Belgium.
D) France.
E) the United Kingdom.

Question 22

Which term refers to a form of government that exerts complete control over their people?

A) Representative democracy
B) Direct democracy
C) Totalitarian
D) Oligarchy
E) Dictatorship

Question 23

Which is one of the few options available to a weaker group looking to retaliate against a powerful country?

A) Nuclear weapons
B) Political pressure
C) Economic sanctions
D) Legal recourse
E) Suicide terrorism

Question 24

An oligarchy is a form of government in which power is .

A) seized and held by an individual
B) held by all the people
C) held by a small group of individuals
D) held by a spiritual leader
E) held by a king or queen

Question 25

Which term did C. Wright Mills use to refer to a coalition of individuals whose interests coincide and who have access to the centre of political power?

A) Power elite
B) Dictators
C) Totalitarians
D) Coalitions
E) Noncentrists

Question 26

In which year did Canadian women first vote in federal elections?

A) 1867
B) 1902
C) 1918
D) 1940
E) 1945

Question 27

Which term is used to describe the Canadian system of government?

A) Democratic monarchy
B) Parliamentary democracy
C) Plural oligarchy
D) Direct democracy
E) Socialist monarchy

Question 28

An emphasis on following procedures and the inability to resist pressures are both characterizations of .

A) the communist threat
B) dehumanization
C) suicide terrorism
D) totalitarianism
E) nationalism

Question 29

Which term refers to the idea that everyone has the same basic rights by being born in a country or becoming a naturalized citizen?

A) Direct citizenship
B) Representative citizenship
C) Canadian residency
D) Universal citizenship
E) Natural citizenship

Question 30

In Canada, which is the supreme national lawmaking authority?

A) The RCMP
B) The Prime Minister
C) Parliament
D) The Senate
E) The Supreme Court

Question 31

Politically, when did the Quiet Revolution begin in Quebec?

A) 1894
B) 1940
C) 1959
D) 1967
E) 1980

Question 32

According to the functionalist perspective, what prevents any one group from gaining control of a government and using it to oppress the people?

A) Pluralism
B) Rationalism
C) Coalitions
D) Tradition
E) The power elite

Question 33

Why was the concept of representative democracy based on citizenship so revolutionary?

A) Because it was based on charismatic authority
B) Because it allowed everyone to have a turn at making decisions
C) Because it made people responsive to the government's wishes
D) Because it made governments responsive to the people's wishes
E) Because it gave governments authority based on tradition

Question 34

In most European countries, elections are based on a system of proportional representation. This system .

A) discourages minority parties
B) discourages the formation of noncentrist parties
C) encourages minority parties
D) is similar to the winner-take-all system
E) makes it impossible to form a coalition government

Question 35

Since 1982, what has limited the Canadian Parliament's formal powers?

A) The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
B) The Language Laws
C) The Royal Decree
D) The Provincial Agreement
E) The Doctrine of Parliamentary Restraint

Question 36

What has been the trend for female executives in the Federal Civil Service since 1993?

A) The proportion has been decreasing.
B) The proportion has been increasing.
C) The proportion has stayed the same.
D) The proportion has gone over 50 percent.
E) The proportion has increased but the numbers have decreased.

Question 37

The proportional representation followed in most European countries means that if a party gets 10 percent of the votes to support a candidate, it will get 10 percent of the seats. This system encourages the formation of parties, those that propose less popular ideas.

A) centrist
B) pluralist
C) conservative
D) noncentrist
E) liberal

Question 38

The North American Free Trade Association includes which countries?

A) Canada and the United States
B) The United States and Mexico
C) Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Brazil
D) Canada, the United States, and Brazil
E) Canada, the United States, and Mexico

Question 39

Which country spent the most in buying military weapons between 2001 and 2004?

A) China
B) Saudi Arabia
C) The United States
D) Russia
E) India

Question 40

Which is the latest addition to the Canadian federal political landscape?

A) The Conservative Party of Canada
B) The Canadian Alliance Party
C) The Reform Party
D) The Bloc Québécois
E) The New Democratic Party

Question 41

Pierre Elliot Trudeau combined and authority.

A) charismatic; coercive
B) rational-legal; charismatic
C) rational-legal; coercive
D) traditional; rational-legal
E) traditional; charismatic

Question 42

Since World War II, the typical voter turnout in Canadian federal elections has been between .

A) 70 to 80 percent
B) 40 to 50 percent
C) 50 to 60 percent
D) 50 to 70 percent
E) 80 to 90 percent

Question 43

The implementation of representative democracy based on citizenship meant the reversal of traditional ideas, for the government was to be responsive to the people's wishes, not the people to the wishes of the government.

Question 44

The only woman Prime Minister in Canada's history has been Kim Campbell and she stayed in power for a considerably long time.

Question 45

When Canada officially became a country in 1867, there were only provinces in the confederation.

A) seven
B) three
C) five
D) four
E) nine

Question 46

Direct democracies work best in .

A) small tribes and towns
B) countries that have highly advanced systems of technology
C) large urban areas
D) third world countries
E) countries with many natural resources to protect

Question 47

The voter turnout at federal elections in Canada has always hovered around the 60 percent mark.

Question 48

John A. Macdonald was Canada's first Prime Minister, and he headed a coalition Conservative government.

Question 49

According to the author of your textbook, what is the social basis for the politics of language in Quebec?

A) Jobs
B) Culture
C) Religion
D) Family
E) The media

Question 50

Like the Progressive Movement and the Social Credit Party, the Reform/Alliance Party was a left-wing protest party.

Question 51

If had had his way, his conquests would have resulted in world domination-by a world dictator and a world totalitarian regime based on racial identification.

A) Hitler
B) Stalin
C) Pol Pot
D) Kim Jong-il
E) Mussolini

Question 52

In Canada, the power to spend money and to introduce tax legislation is limited to the Cabinet, while the Prime Minister has the exclusive power to open, postpone, and dissolve Parliament.

Question 53

Which term refers to a federal form of government in which all power resides with the central government?

A) Confederation
B) Dictatorship
C) Unitary state
D) Confederal union
E) Minority government

Question 54

Which term refers to the relatively new idea that people have basic rights by virtue of birth and residence?

A) Citizenship
B) Representative democracy
C) Direct democracy
D) Universal suffrage
E) Nationalism

Question 55

The Reform/Alliance Party never managed to get a seat in the House of Commons.

Question 56

Constitutionally, there are three major levels of national government in Canada: the Queen, the Senate, and Parliament.

Question 57

Which kind of authority has no rules of succession and is inherently unstable?

A) Traditional
B) Charismatic
C) Divine
D) Rational-legal
E) Bureaucratic

Question 58

In Canada, the role of the opposition parties is basically adversarial.

Question 59

A totalitarian regime views privacy as a threat and eliminates individual rights.

Question 60

Which type of feminists do not believe that our laws can be the vehicle by which change occurs that benefits women?

A) Lesbian
B) Rainbow
C) Conservative
D) Radical
E) Liberal

Question 61

Oligarchy is a type of government where those with the most money or resources rule.

Question 62

War is simply one option that groups choose for dealing with disagreements, but not all societies choose this option.

Question 63

The more its power is seen as legitimate, the more stable a government is.

Question 64

The issues of war and global capitalism are part of the study of macropolitics.

Question 65

Conflict theorists view the state as having arisen out of the basic needs of the social group.

Question 66

Public sector employees in Canada make up 40 percent of the total labour force.

Question 67

Traditional authority is the most legitimate type of authority because it is based on written rules.

Question 68

Functionalists say that pluralism, a diffusion of power among many interest groups, prevents any one group from gaining control of the government and using it to oppress the people.

Question 69

Because their authority is not tied to any tradition or the rule of law, charismatic leaders pose no threat to established political systems.

Question 70

Citizenship-the idea that, by virtue of birth and residence, people have basic rights-is a natural and long-established practice.

Question 71

Rational-legal authority is based on the person who holds the position, not the position the person holds.

Question 72

In Canada, public sector employees and public servants are one and the same group of people, equal in numbers.

Question 73

According to C. Wright Mills, the power elite is composed of top leaders of the largest corporations, the most powerful generals and admirals of the armed forces, and certain elite politicians.

Question 74

Canadian women have been able to vote in every federal election since Confederation (1867).

Question 75

The Bloc Québécois was formed from a coalition of dissident Quebec MPs who left the Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties. It upholds a social democratic platform of policies and is committed to increased sovereignty for Quebec.

Question 76

Because of employment equity initiatives introduced in the 1970s, women and minorities are now fully represented at the "executive level" in the federal bureaucracy.

Question 77

The Quiet Revolution gave hope to many Québécois seeking to modernize their province through the expansion of health, education, and welfare bureaucracies.

Question 78

War, armed conflict between nations or politically distinct groups, is often part of national policy.

Question 79

Proponents of liberal feminism propose a woman-centred society and seek to create a woman-oriented culture, ethics, and even religion.