Test 2 - Quiz Questions Repository

A candidate frames politics as a fight between good and evil and attacks a corrupt political caste. His remedy is to shrink the state and let the market decide. By the three-element definition of populism used in class, what is missing?

A virtuous and homogenous people whose will he claims to express.

Hugo Chavez, a left-wing leader, attacked Venezuela’s established parties as a corrupt “partycracy” and claimed to speak for the people. A student says he could not have been a populist, since populism belongs to the right. Which reply fits the class?

Populism can be filled with left or right-wing content, so Chavez can count as a populist.

A government elected to defend the people against a corrupt elite fills the courts, the central bank, and public television with loyalists, and hands out welfare through party offices. Which idea from class fits this?

Clientelism: "the people" turn out to be the leader's own people.

A man and a woman in Morro da Cruz both did better in the Lula years. In 2018 he votes for Bolsonaro and she does not. Which explanation of his vote fits the account given in class?

After 2014 he lost the self-worth that consumption had given him,.

The instructor suggested that Eva Perón played what kind of role that complemented her husband's as a populist leader?

feminine

Bartov sees the erosion of Israeli democracy as a "boomerang effect" of ruling over others. Where does he locate its roots?

In 1948, when a Jewish majority was created through expulsion.

Ochs does not doubt that Israeli Jews feared Palestinian bombings. What else, she argues, did expressing fear do for them?

It masked unspoken guilt about Israel as an occupying power.

How did Prime Minister Ariel Sharon address Israelis' fear in his August 2002 speech to the Knesset, according to Ochs?

He acknowledged it and praised those who carried on despite it, affirming his authority as their protector.

According to Singh, how did Hindu nationalist ideologues adapt Nazi ideology to India?

They put Hindu nationalism in place of white nationalism, and Muslims in place of the Jews.

During Trump's visit to India in February 2020, Delhi saw protests against a new citizenship law and Hindu-Muslim riots. According to Singh, how did Trump respond when an international reporter asked about the protests?

He said he trusted Modi's government on the rights of minorities.