Political Science Intro to American Government Chapters 1-4

Political Science Intro to American Government Chapters 1-4 The authors of your textbook state that politics produces... - Winners and losers. A system in which the market determines production, distribution, and price decisions, and where property is privately owned, describes... - A capitalist economy. In elite democratic theory, citizens should participate in politics... - Only to select leaders. The status of being a citizen, rather than a subject, of a particular political system grants individuals political rights but also comes with... - Obligations. When political scientists try to determine how well an institution works, they are engaging in... - Evolution. Politics makes possible the organization of collective lives into a social order. - True Karl Marx hoped that humankind would eventually evolve to the point that each individual would exercise total control over their own life. - True Hashtag activism rejects the concept of using social media to organize people around a particular issue. - False Living in an information bubble makes it easier for people to become targets of weaponized social media. - True The term digital natives applies only to those born prior to the twenty-first century. - False According to the authors of the textbook, politics stems from which of the following? - Who we are. The term values can best be defined as ideas that most people in a political culture... - Agree are important, even if they cannot agree on what exactly those ideas imply. Normative statements describe... - How the world ought to be organized. Individuals who desire an activist government in promoting a particular social and economic order are often called... - Communitarians. Barbour and Wright state that scholars studying the supporters of ______ during the 2016 primary campaign argued that these voters shared "authoritarian values" with one another. - Donald Trump Political refugees who face religious persecution are typically not allowed into the United States. - False Many immigrants to the United States during the late nineteenth century were from China. - True Few changes to American demographics are expected over the next several decades. - False The federal government automatically grants refugee status to all immigrants who are threatened with persecution in their home countries. - False Exchange students do not gain permanent residency status simply by virtue of studying at an American university. - True Barbour and Wright opine that early American colonists came to the New World ______. - for a wide range of economic, religious, and political reasons Barbour and Wright imply that most early British colonies in North America were ______. - places that perpetuated many of the injustices that colonists had hoped to flee