POLI 105 - Midterm Review Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
Intersubjectivity -
correct answer ✅Constructing a narrative of events that can be
understood from multiple perspective
World Politics -
correct answer ✅Political, economic, and social
activities/interactions among nation-states and international
organizations, including non-state actors
Power -
correct answer ✅Ability to influence
Nation -
correct answer ✅Group of people with a stable history of shared
and common experience (language, customs, territory, ethnicity,
etc.) that have an expressed interest in self-governance
State -
correct answer ✅Formal arrangement of institutions designed to
govern a nation of people
,POLI 105 - Midterm Review Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
Nation-State -
correct answer ✅Combination of a national identity and state
governance
Nationless State -
correct answer ✅- A state with extremely fragmented/fabricated
national identity prone to civil war/often a product of post-colonial
efforts to establish order (rare)
- EX: Rwanda
Stateless Nation -
correct answer ✅Nations without states or without formally
recognized statehood, often a product of civil war/territorial
displacement
Governance -
correct answer ✅Coordination of human activity
Hierarchy -
correct answer ✅- Top down governance via chain of authority,
formal institutional design
- EX: Military
,POLI 105 - Midterm Review Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
Heteronomy -
correct answer ✅- Side by side governance by multiple actors with
similar levels of authority, informal institutional design
- EX: Markets
Alterity -
correct answer ✅- Process of "othering" people with different
ancestry/identity
- EX: African-American, Latin-American
Sovereignty -
correct answer ✅- Principle that each nation answers only to its
own domestic order and is not accountable to a larger international
community, save only to the extent it has consented to do so
- Montevideo Convention
Determining Characteristics of States -
correct answer ✅(Montevideo Convention)
- States should have a permanent population
, POLI 105 - Midterm Review Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
- Should have a defined territory (can have border disputes so it
only has to be consistent and must be a naturally formed part of
the earth's surface)
- Should have a government
- Should have the capacity to enter into relations with other states
Legitimacy -
correct answer ✅When a government is viewed as having the right
to exercise all powers/authority granted to it via the concept of
sovereignty
Internal Legitimacy -
correct answer ✅When the citizens of a state find a government
legitimate
External Legitimacy -
correct answer ✅When other sovereign states find a foreign
government legitimate
Regime Type -
correct answer ✅Characterization/categorization of varying forms
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
Intersubjectivity -
correct answer ✅Constructing a narrative of events that can be
understood from multiple perspective
World Politics -
correct answer ✅Political, economic, and social
activities/interactions among nation-states and international
organizations, including non-state actors
Power -
correct answer ✅Ability to influence
Nation -
correct answer ✅Group of people with a stable history of shared
and common experience (language, customs, territory, ethnicity,
etc.) that have an expressed interest in self-governance
State -
correct answer ✅Formal arrangement of institutions designed to
govern a nation of people
,POLI 105 - Midterm Review Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
Nation-State -
correct answer ✅Combination of a national identity and state
governance
Nationless State -
correct answer ✅- A state with extremely fragmented/fabricated
national identity prone to civil war/often a product of post-colonial
efforts to establish order (rare)
- EX: Rwanda
Stateless Nation -
correct answer ✅Nations without states or without formally
recognized statehood, often a product of civil war/territorial
displacement
Governance -
correct answer ✅Coordination of human activity
Hierarchy -
correct answer ✅- Top down governance via chain of authority,
formal institutional design
- EX: Military
,POLI 105 - Midterm Review Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
Heteronomy -
correct answer ✅- Side by side governance by multiple actors with
similar levels of authority, informal institutional design
- EX: Markets
Alterity -
correct answer ✅- Process of "othering" people with different
ancestry/identity
- EX: African-American, Latin-American
Sovereignty -
correct answer ✅- Principle that each nation answers only to its
own domestic order and is not accountable to a larger international
community, save only to the extent it has consented to do so
- Montevideo Convention
Determining Characteristics of States -
correct answer ✅(Montevideo Convention)
- States should have a permanent population
, POLI 105 - Midterm Review Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
- Should have a defined territory (can have border disputes so it
only has to be consistent and must be a naturally formed part of
the earth's surface)
- Should have a government
- Should have the capacity to enter into relations with other states
Legitimacy -
correct answer ✅When a government is viewed as having the right
to exercise all powers/authority granted to it via the concept of
sovereignty
Internal Legitimacy -
correct answer ✅When the citizens of a state find a government
legitimate
External Legitimacy -
correct answer ✅When other sovereign states find a foreign
government legitimate
Regime Type -
correct answer ✅Characterization/categorization of varying forms
