Pol 101 Exam 1 Ole Miss Updated Questions And Correct Answers

POL 101 EXAM 1 OLE MISS UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
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1. What is Politics?
Answer:
establishes who gets what when and how

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2. Government
Answer:
a system or organization for exercising authority over a body of people

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3. authority
Answer:
power that people recognize as legitimate

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4. rules
Answer:
directives that specify how resources will be distributed or what procedures govern collective acitivy

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5. Institutions
Answer:
organizations in which government power is exercised

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6. Monarchy/Dictatorship
Answer:
Rule of one

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7. Aristocracy/Oligarchy
Answer:
The rule of the few

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8. Democracy
Answer:
rule of many, or of the people

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9. elite democracy

, Answer:
limits the citizens role to choosing among leaders

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10. pluralist democracy
Answer:
citizen membership in groups is the key to political power

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11. participatory democracy
Answer:
citizens should actively and directly control all aspects of their lives and participate in all aspects of
lawmaking

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12. factions
Answer:
groups that might pursue only their self-interest

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13. republic
Answer:
government in which decisions are made through represen-tatives of the people

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14. initiative
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enables citzens to draft laws and constitutional amendments and palce them on the ballot for a
popular vote

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15. referendum
Answer:
provides for a popular vote on laws passed by the legislature

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16. recall
Answer:
allows citizens to remove elected officials from office

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17. popular sovereignty
Answer:
the people rule

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18. political equality