PO221 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
100% SOLVED
Comparative politics tends to produce certain kinds of arguments. Which of the
following is the best label for those arguments? - ANSWER explanations
Which of the following could be a good comparative politics explanation of the
revolutions of the Arab Spring? - ANSWER The revolutions were products of
revolutionary processes
Which one of the following claims about concepts in comparative politics is true? -
ANSWER It is very important to be attentive to conceptualization when carrying out or
evaluating empirical work
Which of the following best describes the idea of operationalizing concepts? - ANSWER
Operationalizing concepts involves making concepts measurable
Which of the following is a necessary feature of good concepts? - ANSWER Good
concepts are coherent
idea of multiple modernities - ANSWER S.M. Eisenstadt
the idea of the end of history - ANSWER Francis Fukuyama
,the idea of the clash of civilizations - ANSWER Samuel huntington
Opposite of discrimination - ANSWER empowerment
Heteronormativity - ANSWER the presumption that heterosexuality is the only biological
option
the process through which ideas of race are constructed and developed over time -
ANSWER racialization
the state plays a role in the ongoing construction of ethnicity by doing? - ANSWER
making official decisions about how to use ethnic categories in political life and laws
LGBT movement in the US is an example of what kind of empowerment? - ANSWER
symbolic empowerment
what phenomena is related to ethnic groups - ANSWER a sense of shared cultural
background
the idea that collectively held or group feelings and resentments lie behind conflict -
ANSWER social psychology
Leah Greenfield - Nazi Germany is an example of what kind of nationalism? - ANSWER
ethnic and collectivistic
, Primordial bonds, material interests, and social psychology are all elements of: -
ANSWER explanation of ethno-national conflict
identities are - ANSWER cultural, historical, political
synonymous with civic nationalism - ANSWER territorial nationalism
theory of perennialism - ANSWER national identity is neither exclusively modern nor fully
contentious with prehistoric forms of identity
Ernest Gellner "Nations and Nationalism" - ANSWER industrial capitalism produces
nationalism in part using the state as an instrument
foundational example of civic nationalism - ANSWER France
nations are groups that are... - ANSWER apolitical
authoritarian persistence can be demonstrated by... - ANSWER 1) the persistence of a
single authoritarian regime
2) the substitution of one authoritarian regime for another
A collapse of democracy is called - ANSWER Democratic breakdown
100% SOLVED
Comparative politics tends to produce certain kinds of arguments. Which of the
following is the best label for those arguments? - ANSWER explanations
Which of the following could be a good comparative politics explanation of the
revolutions of the Arab Spring? - ANSWER The revolutions were products of
revolutionary processes
Which one of the following claims about concepts in comparative politics is true? -
ANSWER It is very important to be attentive to conceptualization when carrying out or
evaluating empirical work
Which of the following best describes the idea of operationalizing concepts? - ANSWER
Operationalizing concepts involves making concepts measurable
Which of the following is a necessary feature of good concepts? - ANSWER Good
concepts are coherent
idea of multiple modernities - ANSWER S.M. Eisenstadt
the idea of the end of history - ANSWER Francis Fukuyama
,the idea of the clash of civilizations - ANSWER Samuel huntington
Opposite of discrimination - ANSWER empowerment
Heteronormativity - ANSWER the presumption that heterosexuality is the only biological
option
the process through which ideas of race are constructed and developed over time -
ANSWER racialization
the state plays a role in the ongoing construction of ethnicity by doing? - ANSWER
making official decisions about how to use ethnic categories in political life and laws
LGBT movement in the US is an example of what kind of empowerment? - ANSWER
symbolic empowerment
what phenomena is related to ethnic groups - ANSWER a sense of shared cultural
background
the idea that collectively held or group feelings and resentments lie behind conflict -
ANSWER social psychology
Leah Greenfield - Nazi Germany is an example of what kind of nationalism? - ANSWER
ethnic and collectivistic
, Primordial bonds, material interests, and social psychology are all elements of: -
ANSWER explanation of ethno-national conflict
identities are - ANSWER cultural, historical, political
synonymous with civic nationalism - ANSWER territorial nationalism
theory of perennialism - ANSWER national identity is neither exclusively modern nor fully
contentious with prehistoric forms of identity
Ernest Gellner "Nations and Nationalism" - ANSWER industrial capitalism produces
nationalism in part using the state as an instrument
foundational example of civic nationalism - ANSWER France
nations are groups that are... - ANSWER apolitical
authoritarian persistence can be demonstrated by... - ANSWER 1) the persistence of a
single authoritarian regime
2) the substitution of one authoritarian regime for another
A collapse of democracy is called - ANSWER Democratic breakdown
