TEST BANK
** All Chapters included
** Short Answers
** True/False & Multiple Choice
** Additional Quiz Questions
,Table of Contents are given below
1. Politics: Setting the Stage
2. Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy
3. The Modern State
4. Policies of the State
5. Economic Policy of the State
6. What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice and Effectiveness
7. Democracies and Authoritarian Systems
8. Political Culture and Political Socialization
9. Constitutions and the Design of Government
10. Elections
11. Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics
12. Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics
13. Social Movements and Contentious Politics
14. National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government
15. National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government
16. Bureaucracy and the Public Sector
17. Law and the Courts
18. Global Politics: Politics among States (and Others)
, Test Bank - Chapter 1
Politics Setting the Stage
I. Short Answers
1. Politics is the making of common decisions, through the use of power: Explain
2. How do we draw a clean or clear line or boundary between things which are and are not
political?
3. What is power?
II. True/False
1. Politics is the making of common decisions, through the use of power.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
2. Power is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
3. The state and its government are structures by which power can be organized very
efficiently.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
4. Politics is an interesting, amusing, and moving spectacle.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
5. Democracies almost never wage war on other democracies.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
6. All human actions involve making a common policy for a group.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
7. Power is the ability of one person to cause another to do what the first wishes.
a. True
b. False
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, Answer: True
8. Facebook is a social media.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
9. Actions that contribute to the making of a common policy for a group of people
constitute politics.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
10. Politics always involves the making of common decisions for groups of leaders.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
11. Power becomes coercion when we force a person to do something he or she did not
want to do.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
12. It is easy to measure precisely how and when power is exercised.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
13. All politics is based on some form of power and its sources may be highly varied.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
III. Multiple Choice
1. ____________ is the ability to cause another person to do what the first wishes.
a. Power
b. Choice
c. Money
d. Affection
Answer: a
2. _________ consists of a wide variety of tools that affect the actions of another.
a. Power
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** All Chapters included
** Short Answers
** True/False & Multiple Choice
** Additional Quiz Questions
,Table of Contents are given below
1. Politics: Setting the Stage
2. Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy
3. The Modern State
4. Policies of the State
5. Economic Policy of the State
6. What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice and Effectiveness
7. Democracies and Authoritarian Systems
8. Political Culture and Political Socialization
9. Constitutions and the Design of Government
10. Elections
11. Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics
12. Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics
13. Social Movements and Contentious Politics
14. National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government
15. National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government
16. Bureaucracy and the Public Sector
17. Law and the Courts
18. Global Politics: Politics among States (and Others)
, Test Bank - Chapter 1
Politics Setting the Stage
I. Short Answers
1. Politics is the making of common decisions, through the use of power: Explain
2. How do we draw a clean or clear line or boundary between things which are and are not
political?
3. What is power?
II. True/False
1. Politics is the making of common decisions, through the use of power.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
2. Power is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
3. The state and its government are structures by which power can be organized very
efficiently.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
4. Politics is an interesting, amusing, and moving spectacle.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
5. Democracies almost never wage war on other democracies.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
6. All human actions involve making a common policy for a group.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
7. Power is the ability of one person to cause another to do what the first wishes.
a. True
b. False
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, Answer: True
8. Facebook is a social media.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
9. Actions that contribute to the making of a common policy for a group of people
constitute politics.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
10. Politics always involves the making of common decisions for groups of leaders.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
11. Power becomes coercion when we force a person to do something he or she did not
want to do.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
12. It is easy to measure precisely how and when power is exercised.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
13. All politics is based on some form of power and its sources may be highly varied.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
III. Multiple Choice
1. ____________ is the ability to cause another person to do what the first wishes.
a. Power
b. Choice
c. Money
d. Affection
Answer: a
2. _________ consists of a wide variety of tools that affect the actions of another.
a. Power
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