Comparative Politics Chapter 2
Which of the following statements about the top twenty failed or fragile states is accurate?
-none is a European country -most of the countries are extremely poor -Most of the countries were previously colonies
Which of the following can be said about the concept of a regime?
A regime guides the state regarding individual freedom and collective equality, where power should reside, and how power should be used.
low capacity, high autonomy state
A small state government successfully makes major changes to its public education policy out of belief that it is the best thing for the people, even though the public largely opposes the new policy. At the same time, the state proves largely incapable of maintaining law and order or providing food and medical care in a region that is suffering through a drought. In which of the following ways could this state be categorized?
Asymmetric federalism
A system in which power is divided unevenly between regional bodies
Legitimate
An institution that is recognized and accepted as right and proper by the public is seen as
Capacity
Can be defined as the ability of the state to wield power to carry out the basic tasks of providing security and reconciling freedom and equality.
in which of the following ways does a government built primarily on charismatic legitimacy differ from one based on traditional legitimacy?
Charismatic legitimacy would likely be much shorter-lived.
Settled near trade routes
Charles Tilly suggests that the modern state beat out rival forms of political organization primarily because it
Which of the following is a common argument for a centralized, unitary state (with no federalism or devolution of power)?
Local interests can be effectively represented without recourse to regional political institutions.
Which of the following statements about the development and spread of the modern state is accurate?
Many states were able to use ethnicity as a nationalizing force even as people began to define themselves less through characteristics like religion or town of residence.
Which of the following statements about Pakistan's slide toward state failure is accurate?
Pakistan's lack of a central government at the time of formation may have contributed to its continued weakness.
The extreme violence of pre-state societies
Recent research suggests that the rise of political organizations came about in large part because of
States with high capacity and high autonomy are
Running the risk of threatening individual freedom
Country
Shorthand term for the combination of regime, state, government
linguistic and ethnic fragmentation
The development of the modern state in Europe was partly encouraged by
rational-legal authority
The legitimacy of modern states is primarily derived from
Feudalism
The modern state eventually supplanted which system of economic organization?
traditional legitimacy
The text suggests that the difficulty of amending the U.S. Constitution is evidence of the power of
Devolution of taxation to regional bodies
Which of the following characteristics is more likely to be seen in a federalist state than a unitary state?
Government, regime, state
Which one of the following accurately reflects the order of concepts from weakly institutionalized to highly institutionalized?
Which of the following might be a characteristic of a state with low autonomy
a limited ability to disobey the public
Political scientists, based on the work of Max Weber, define the STATE as
an organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a territory.
The modern state spread throughout the world primarily through
colonial dominance imposed by European states.
Thomas Hobbes believed that people gave up their rights to the coercive power of the state in order to
escape anarchy.
Russia
state with low capacity, but high autonomy
Sovereignty is primarily defined as the ability of
states to carry out actions or policies within a territory independent of external actors or internal rivals.
The emergence of the modern state followed what specific developments?
the collapse of the Roman Empire and the European Dark Ages
Which of the following is most likely a reason for the emergence of the modern state in Europe rather than elsewhere?
the collapse of the Roman Empire and the rise of a form of organized crime
Government
the leadership that runs the state
Max Weber's three forms of political legitimacy are
traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal.