Deck 17: A: Politics and Government

Question 1

Authoritarian governments give people little voice in politics.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In absolute monarchies,hereditary rulers claim a virtual monopoly of power based on divine right.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

In a totalitarian political system,one political organization claims total control of society.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In the 2008 federal election in Canada,Alberta was the province where a majority of people voted Liberal.

Question 5

A large majority of the world's people live in nations that are considered to be politically free.

Question 6

Democracy and rational-legal authority are linked just as monarchy and traditional authority are.

Question 7

The sociologist closely associated with the power-elite model is C.Wright Mills.

Question 8

Authority refers to power that people perceive as coercive.

Question 9

Rational-legal authority is also called "bureaucratic authority" because it usually is rooted in formal offices.

Question 10

The concept "government" refers to the formal organization that directs the political life of a society.

Question 11

Traditional authority is one source of strength for patriarchy

Question 12

The pluralist model states that the United States is far less democratic than most people would like to think.

Question 13

Traditional authority gains importance as a society becomes industrialized.

Question 14

Just as the economy is becoming more and more global,so is the world developing a single global political system.

Question 15

Weber's idea of the routinization of charisma states that charisma does not exist in the modern world.

Question 16

The Canadian Prime Minister can have more power in decision-making than the American President.

Question 17

According to Max Weber,authority is just another word for power.

Question 18

Charismatic authority is based on extraordinary personal abilities.

Question 19

Fifteen percent (15%)of Canadians are involved in politics at the gladiatorial level.

Question 20

An examination of socialist and capitalist systems suggests that political liberty and economic equality almost always go together.

Question 21

Extensive civil liberties make democratic societies very vulnerable to terrorism.

Question 22

Political revolutions tend to occur when and where living standards are the lowest.

Question 23

The Marxist political-economy model suggests that capitalist societies are democratic,giving some political voice to everyone.

Question 24

The concept "military-industrial complex" refers to the close association among the federal government,the military,and defense industries.

Question 25

Nuclear proliferation is the process by which the two super-powers engage in an arms race.

Question 26

Terrorism is considered to be a new form of asymmetrical warfare.