PUBPL 120N Exam ACTUAL UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Michel Foucault - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅power exists in systems of social networks
Power - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅is only exercised over free subjects
Resistance - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅where there is power, there are opportunities to
resist
Violence - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅is only a tool of power
Sovereign power - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅state's use of violence and its threat to shape
action
Discipline - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅constant surveillance, regulation, and structuring of
action to instill norms and habits
Panopticon - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅prison cells are in a circle around a central guard
tower capable of seeing into all cells at once
Jeremy Bentham - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅First proposed the idea of the panopticon
Utilitarianism - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅founder of moral theory of utilitarianism
Robert Dahl - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Power is getting someone to do something they
otherwise wouldn't do
Negative power - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅when what an actor does prompts the
respondent to do the opposite
, The chameleon problem - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a lawmaker good at guessing how the
majority will vote and always votes with the majority may appear more influential than they
actually are
Bachrach and Baratz - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Power can be Influence on what issues
make it onto the agenda to be decided and which issues get left off
critics of Dahl
Three Faces of Power - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. influence on what decisions another
makes (Dahl)
2. influence on what issues make it onto the agenda to be decided and what issues get left off
(Bachrach and Baratz)
3. influence on other's thoughts and desires--the most subtle form of power (Lukes)
Adams and Rameau - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Believe in Community Control over
Policing
Policing in a question of power
Civilian Police Control Board - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Would have 100% authority
over the priorities, policies, and practicies of the police
uses sorition
sortition - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅use of random selection to choose officials for public
office
DOJ's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Occurred in 2014 after police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO
Many officers saw black neighborhoods less as people needing defending and more as
potential offenders and sources of revenue
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Michel Foucault - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅power exists in systems of social networks
Power - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅is only exercised over free subjects
Resistance - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅where there is power, there are opportunities to
resist
Violence - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅is only a tool of power
Sovereign power - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅state's use of violence and its threat to shape
action
Discipline - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅constant surveillance, regulation, and structuring of
action to instill norms and habits
Panopticon - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅prison cells are in a circle around a central guard
tower capable of seeing into all cells at once
Jeremy Bentham - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅First proposed the idea of the panopticon
Utilitarianism - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅founder of moral theory of utilitarianism
Robert Dahl - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Power is getting someone to do something they
otherwise wouldn't do
Negative power - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅when what an actor does prompts the
respondent to do the opposite
, The chameleon problem - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a lawmaker good at guessing how the
majority will vote and always votes with the majority may appear more influential than they
actually are
Bachrach and Baratz - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Power can be Influence on what issues
make it onto the agenda to be decided and which issues get left off
critics of Dahl
Three Faces of Power - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. influence on what decisions another
makes (Dahl)
2. influence on what issues make it onto the agenda to be decided and what issues get left off
(Bachrach and Baratz)
3. influence on other's thoughts and desires--the most subtle form of power (Lukes)
Adams and Rameau - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Believe in Community Control over
Policing
Policing in a question of power
Civilian Police Control Board - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Would have 100% authority
over the priorities, policies, and practicies of the police
uses sorition
sortition - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅use of random selection to choose officials for public
office
DOJ's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Occurred in 2014 after police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO
Many officers saw black neighborhoods less as people needing defending and more as
potential offenders and sources of revenue
