Exam 1 Review- POLI 2051 Kenny
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
What is government? - ✔✔a formally established way of making and
carrying out political decisions
What is politics? - ✔✔the competition to shape government's impact on
society's problems and goals
In what ways is our present government undemocratic? - ✔✔Electoral
college, gerrymandering, lobbying, appointed officials, executive orders,
senate set-up
What is gerrymandering? - ✔✔practice to manipulate electoral to be in
favor of one party in particular
Why do we have government? - ✔✔refer to social contract theory
What is social contract theory? - ✔✔normative rather than empirical theory
(normative- the way government should handle things; empirical- the way
things actually are)
protects natural rights between people and the government - ✔✔the social
contract theory
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, Purposes of government - ✔✔protecting life; rights and liberties; providing
public goods; promoting equality
purposes of government can _ but you can understand these differences in
term of political ideology (people can't agree on importance) - ✔✔conflict
Political ideology - ✔✔the way priorities are organized
political ideology is also - ✔✔a coherent set of beliefs about how policies
affect society and which policies are desirable
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: control
social issues: freedom - ✔✔liberals
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: freedom
social issues: Control - ✔✔Conservatives
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: control
social issues: control - ✔✔populists
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: freedom
social issues: freedom - ✔✔libertarians
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Questions with 100% Correct Answers
What is government? - ✔✔a formally established way of making and
carrying out political decisions
What is politics? - ✔✔the competition to shape government's impact on
society's problems and goals
In what ways is our present government undemocratic? - ✔✔Electoral
college, gerrymandering, lobbying, appointed officials, executive orders,
senate set-up
What is gerrymandering? - ✔✔practice to manipulate electoral to be in
favor of one party in particular
Why do we have government? - ✔✔refer to social contract theory
What is social contract theory? - ✔✔normative rather than empirical theory
(normative- the way government should handle things; empirical- the way
things actually are)
protects natural rights between people and the government - ✔✔the social
contract theory
1
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, Purposes of government - ✔✔protecting life; rights and liberties; providing
public goods; promoting equality
purposes of government can _ but you can understand these differences in
term of political ideology (people can't agree on importance) - ✔✔conflict
Political ideology - ✔✔the way priorities are organized
political ideology is also - ✔✔a coherent set of beliefs about how policies
affect society and which policies are desirable
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: control
social issues: freedom - ✔✔liberals
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: freedom
social issues: Control - ✔✔Conservatives
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: control
social issues: control - ✔✔populists
(Nolan chart)
Economic issues: freedom
social issues: freedom - ✔✔libertarians
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