POLS007 Exam 1

A _____________ is something that benefits all members of the community.

public good

The _____________ of the state views the state as an instrument of power.

Marxist theory

A _____________ is a group of people who feel that they belong together.

Nation

A _____________ is a political unit with sovereignty.

state

Who pointed out that nationalism is more akin in many ways to a religious identity than to an ideology?

Benedict Anderson

Geographic entities with no effective central state apparatus are known as _____________.

Failed states

A _____________ is a geographical unit of people who have the legal right to make and enforce rules within their boundaries.

State

The _____________ of a state is a group of people who have the ultimate authority to act on behalf of the state.

Government

True/False: A nation is bound together by a common government and language.

False, a nation is a group of people who feel that they belong together

Which is an example of an instance when the formation of a nation does not coincide with the territory of a state?

All of the above

Gross domestic product measures

the total amount of all economic transactions in a state.

GDP is not an accurate measure of human wellbeing, because it does not measure

All of the above.

The human development index (HDI) measures

per capita GDP, life expectancy, and education in a single index.

True/False: The higher the GDP, the lesser is the total amount of economic activity in the state.

False. Higher GDP indicates more economic activity.

To measure how economically well off the average person is, GDP is divided by the population, to get _____________ .

Per capita GDP

True/False: Britain has had stronger liberal traditions than the other countries of Europe.

True. Britain has had stronger liberal traditions than the other countries of Europe.

True/False: Countries that generally devote large portions of their budgets on social welfare programs tend to be founded on the principles of Lockean-liberalism.

False. Countries with extensive social welfare often align more with social democracy.

True/False: Spending on health care in the United States, as a percent of the GDP, is the highest in the world, but its overall performance ranks thirty-seventh in the world.

True. This highlights the disparity between health expenditure and health outcomes in the U.S. compared to other nations.

According to the gender development index, the United States ranks higher than Ireland with respect to equality between men and women.

False. The US ranks lower than Ireland.

True/False: States that provide more economic development opportunities for women generally are richer than those that do not.

True This suggests a correlation between women's economic opportunities and overall wealth within states.

The _____________ of the state views the state as an instrument of power.

Marxist theory

______________ is the ability to cause another person to do what the first wishes.

Power

______________ involves power because it is through power that we reach the “choice” outcome.

Choice

True/False: It is easy to measure precisely how and when power is exercised.

False, there are many ways to measure how and when power is exercised.

Economic inequality is _____________ in the United States than in almost any other prosperous, advanced economy in the world)

Greater

Politics consists of

making common decisions for a group through the use of power

A government may gain and retain legitimacy with its people by providing ______________.

Security against physical assault, Security against invasion, and Economic security

Political science

the academic field that analyzes politics, especially the politics of the state.

Behavioralists

lean more toward looking for broad patterns across cases and using statistical analyses of numerical information.

Interpretive political scientists are most likely to __________.

deal in historical and philosophical aspects of politics and to seek detailed, non-numerical information on a few cases.