Government Unit 1 Multiple Choice Section
According to your book, what differentiates political systems?
The extent of government control over individuals' lives and the social order.
The arenas in which government power is exercised and where political struggle takes place are called
institutions
Which of the following countries is an advanced industrial democracy?
the United States
Power is defined in your text as ______.
the ability to get other people to do what you want
The central democratic institution of the elite theory of democracy is ______.
the electoral proccess
In socialist economies, control over economic decisions is exercised by ______.
the government
The key difference between pure capitalist economies and pure socialist economies is that ______.
the market controls economic decisions in capitalist economies, whereas politicians make economic decisions in socialist economies
Your book says that power is the ability to get others to do your bidding, which frequently includes control of...
the media
The narrative of the social contract was intended to negate
the narrative of the divine right of kings.
In an authoritarian system, the people have ______.
obligations but no rights
Dan Savage was a key organizer of ___
It Gets Better
Which of the following is not given in your book as a reason why it is important to learn critical thinking
It makes us healthier.
The acronym for the steps of critical thinking that we lay out in Chapter 1 of your text is
CLUES
A populist would support which of the following viewpoints?
In a democracy power is concentrated among the elite at the expense of ordinary people
According to the text, what are the competing views of what it means to be a citizen that exist today in the United States?
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.
What is defined as a story that people believe about who has power, who wants power, who deserves power, and what someone has done to get and maintain power?
Political narrative
How do rules fit into the concept of "who gets what, and how"?
Rules can be thought of as the "how."
Government assurances of particular outcomes or results are ______.
Substantive Guarantees
What was the effect of the Protestant Reformation on European politics?
The Catholic Church lost religious and political clout, paving the way for new political ideas about the source of legitimacy for governments.
Which of the following occurs when we customize our personal social media in such a way that it only reinforces what we already think?
We are in an Information Bubble
The Enlightenment led to the theory that government is based on ______.
a social contract
The concept of republican virtue is what scholars such as Madison called the ______.
ability of democratic citizens to put the community's interests ahead of their own
Self-interested citizenship views human nature as
ambitious and self-centered.
The absence of government and laws is a characteristic of ______.
anarchy
In a(n) ______ system, government allows people complete economic freedom but maintains stringent social regulations to limit noneconomic behavior.
authoritarian capitalist
According to the authors, which of the following can often easily exploit populist movements?
authoritarian groups or individuals
According to the social contract, what is the source of government's legitimacy?
citizen consent
Public-interested citizenship views human nature as
concerned with the public good.
Unlike citizens of America's founding generation, modern, mediated citizens have the capacity to do which of the following?
create and disseminate their own narratives
The fifth step of critical thinking requires a reader to
determine the political significance of the argument.
People who were born in the twenty-first century and whose lives are almost completely mediated are known as ______.
digital natives
In the Middle Ages, some monarchs claimed to take their authority from God, a principle called ______.
divine right of kings
The role of citizens is limited to choosing among competing leaders in the ______ theory of democracy.
elite
The fourth step of critical thinking requires a reader to
evaluate the author's conclusions.
Which of the following is a way that the American political system can be assessed for how well it works?
evaluating the democratic role played by citizens in politics
The second step of critical thinking requires a reader to
find the author's basic premises and assumptions.
Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, the It Gets Better Project and Never Again are all examples of
hashtag activism
Viral calls that lead to political activism are known as ______.
hashtag activism
We are more likely to see examples of public-interested citizenship in the United States
in times of national crisis
Authority is power that citizens view as
legitimate
Literacy was still limited among average citizens at the time of the founding, giving major narrative-setting power to
political elites.
Because of technology, control of ______________, which used to belong to kings and priests, can now be in the hands of everyday citizens.
political information
In a socialist economy, economic decisions are determined by ______.
political leaders, on the basis of what society needs
A major goal in politics is competing to have your ________ accepted as the authoritative account of who should have power.
political narrative
A republic is different from a democracy in that it relies on ___
representation by elected officials
In the United States, the rules call for the institutions of
representative democracy.
The major difference between the elitist, pluralist, and participatory democratic naarrtives is related to the ______.
role of the people in decision making
The two competing views of citizenship that exist today in the United States see humans acting out of ______.
self-interest versus common good
James Madison thought that average citizens ______.
should have limited participation in government
Government assurances of particular outcomes or results are ______.
substantive guarantees
The major difference between anarchy and democracy is that in anarchy, ______.
there is no government.
The social contract was the Enlightenment's answer to the fundamental question of
what is the source of government's legitimacy?
