Exam 1: Politics: Who Gets What, and How?

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A) North Korea
B) Iran
C) the United States
D) Singapore
E) Cuba

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A) Socialism, in which economic decisions are made by the government
B) Regulated capitalism, in which business has substantial freedom from government interference, but the government does step in and regulate the economy to guarantee individual rights
C) Pure capitalism, in which all means used to produce material resources are privately owned
D) Pure laissez-faire capitalism, in which the government has no economic role at all
E) Social democracy, in which government plays an enormous role in ensuring substantive guarantees of fair outcomes for all citizens

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A) social democracy
B) substantive guarantees
C) procedural guarantees
D) democracy
E) socialism

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A) there is no government
B) the government is expected to be more responsive to the people
C) the government runs by consensus rather than majority rule
D) the government controls the economy
E) the people are subjects, not citizens

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A) capitalist
B) feudalist
C) network
D) socialist

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A) rights but no obligations
B) obligations but no rights
C) rights and obligations
D) neither rights nor obligations
E) rights but no privileges

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A) Citizens have rights and obligations, whereas subjects have only rights.
B) Both can exist within an authoritarian system, whereas only citizens exist within democratic systems.
C) Citizens have no obligations, and subjects have only rights.
D) Citizens have rights as well as obligations, but subjects have only obligations.
E) With fewer rights to be protected, subjects have more power than do citizens.

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A) a type of totalitarianism
B) the ability to get other people to do what you want
C) the use of force to obtain desired goals
D) the essential quality of leadership
E) the use of military, paramilitary, or police forces to control people

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A) society, through its purchasing power
B) the market
C) the government
D) supply-and-demand forces
E) the people's votes

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A) One view places faith in the citizen's ability to act virtuously, whereas the other suggests that citizens should live in a more direct democracy.
B) The competing roles differ on whether people should be viewed as citizens or whether they should be viewed as subjects.
C) One view holds that individual participation in government should be limited because human nature is overly self-interested, whereas the other view places faith in the citizen's ability to act virtuously.
D) One view holds that individual participation in government should be unlimited because human nature is virtuous, whereas the other view places faith only in a citizen's role in the economy.
E) One view holds that individual participation should be high in economics, whereas the other view holds that individual participation should be low in government.

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The result...

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Students should begin by explaining that...

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A) it provides scientific measurement
B) it allows us to develop exact formulas
C) it helps us understand how something works
D) it helps us understand when things happen

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A) importance of the economy
B) role of the mass media
C) role of the people in decision making
D) importance of security as a goal of government
E) importance of economic redistribution as a goal of government

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