PLS 140 final multiple choice questions and
correct answers
Which of the following statements about the Meiji Restoration is accurate? answer - It involved
creation of a Western-style parliament in which delegates had little real power.
Japan's iron triangle includes which of the following three constituencies? answer -
bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians
Japan currently faces territorial issues with which three of the following countries? answer -
Russia, China, and South Korea
The iron triangle of "Japan, Inc.," has come under increased criticism and scrutiny recently
because of answer - the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Which of the following is the best description of the period known as Taisho democracy?
answer - short-lived era of democratization during the 1920s
The shogun was the title for feudal Japan's answer - dominant lords
Which of the following best describes Japan's process of developing a modern economy and
political structure? answer - Modern economic and political development occurred in a rapid,
top-down process forced by elites in the late nineteenth century
The Meiji Restoration refers to the answer - nineteenth-century modernizing revolution in
Japan.
The term zombies refers to answer - insolvent firms in Japan propped up by the government.
, Article 9 in Japan's postwar constitution answer - renounces war as a sovereign right.
Japan's lower house is elected by which of the following electoral systems? answer - mixed
single-member district and proportional representation
In recent years, no ruling party or coalition has controlled both legislative chambers, a condition
referred to in Japan as answer - a twisted Diet.
Which of the following examples can be described as totalitarian? answer - the Soviet Union
under Stalin
Which of the following statements describes a difference between the totalitarian regimes of
Mao in China and Stalin in the Soviet Union? answer - Stalin modernized the Soviet Union, but
Mao's regime was not able to modernize China.
Communist countries are examples of which form of authoritarianism? answer - one-party rule
Which of the following is among the characteristics that have led some to consider Russia a
bureaucratic authoritarian regime? answer - The head of government and top rulers came into
their positions from the military or security services.
Which of the following represents a challenge to the behavioral revolution's assertion about the
relationship between nondemocratic rule and modernization? answer - Modernization's
disruptive process can lead to nondemocratic rule.
A system in which states co-opt members of the public by providing specific benefits to a person
in return for public support is answer - clientelism.
correct answers
Which of the following statements about the Meiji Restoration is accurate? answer - It involved
creation of a Western-style parliament in which delegates had little real power.
Japan's iron triangle includes which of the following three constituencies? answer -
bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians
Japan currently faces territorial issues with which three of the following countries? answer -
Russia, China, and South Korea
The iron triangle of "Japan, Inc.," has come under increased criticism and scrutiny recently
because of answer - the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Which of the following is the best description of the period known as Taisho democracy?
answer - short-lived era of democratization during the 1920s
The shogun was the title for feudal Japan's answer - dominant lords
Which of the following best describes Japan's process of developing a modern economy and
political structure? answer - Modern economic and political development occurred in a rapid,
top-down process forced by elites in the late nineteenth century
The Meiji Restoration refers to the answer - nineteenth-century modernizing revolution in
Japan.
The term zombies refers to answer - insolvent firms in Japan propped up by the government.
, Article 9 in Japan's postwar constitution answer - renounces war as a sovereign right.
Japan's lower house is elected by which of the following electoral systems? answer - mixed
single-member district and proportional representation
In recent years, no ruling party or coalition has controlled both legislative chambers, a condition
referred to in Japan as answer - a twisted Diet.
Which of the following examples can be described as totalitarian? answer - the Soviet Union
under Stalin
Which of the following statements describes a difference between the totalitarian regimes of
Mao in China and Stalin in the Soviet Union? answer - Stalin modernized the Soviet Union, but
Mao's regime was not able to modernize China.
Communist countries are examples of which form of authoritarianism? answer - one-party rule
Which of the following is among the characteristics that have led some to consider Russia a
bureaucratic authoritarian regime? answer - The head of government and top rulers came into
their positions from the military or security services.
Which of the following represents a challenge to the behavioral revolution's assertion about the
relationship between nondemocratic rule and modernization? answer - Modernization's
disruptive process can lead to nondemocratic rule.
A system in which states co-opt members of the public by providing specific benefits to a person
in return for public support is answer - clientelism.
