GOVERNMENT QUIZ I

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A libertarian is likely to believe

All of these choices are true

Although globalization can threaten national security, this can create desirable outcomes, as shown by the international community's attempt to force Bashar Al-Assad to surrender Syria's

Chemical Weapons

According to the text, only libertarians and __________ are consistent in their attitude toward the scope of government activity

Communitarians

__________ value both equality and order more than freedom, and its members support both affirmative action and laws that restrict pornography.

Communitarians

Protection of private property is not a valid objective of government according to

Karl Marx

Which of the following philosophers is usually associated with socialism?

Karl Marx

The broad, basic definition of government given by the text is

Legitimate use of force within specified geographic boundaries to control human behavior

According to Thomas Hobbes, author of Leviathan, the proper objective of government is to ensure

Order

Two nations with deep ties to the principle of communism that have moved in the direction of more private property are

Russia and China

A person who favors government ownership of some basic industries and a strong government role in directing the economy would best be labeled a

Socialist

A government pursuing laissez-faire policies would

Take a hands-off attitude toward the economy

John Locke's views on government are expressed in

Two Treaties on Government

Compared to citizens in other nations, Americans are more likely to

Value freedom of speech more than order.

An example of a government policy that promotes social equality without redistribution income is

Vermont's Civil Unions

​Desire to avoid potential foreign prosecution of its soldiers and desire to continue practicing the death penalty led the United States in 2002 to

Withdraw from the 1998 treaty creating an International Criminal Court.

Each citizen having one vote demonstrates

a political equality

Thomas Hobbe's ideal form of government was

a single ruler with with unquestioned authority

One example of government focus on equality of outcome is

affirmative action programs.

In his 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama proposed that the minimum wage

be raised to $10.10

The notion that America public schools are open to all its example of

equality of opportunity

All but which one of the following are collectively called "civil liberties?"​

freedom of education

When the authors say that we live in an era of "globalization" they mean that citizens and nations are increasingly

interdependent

Globalization can be seen as a threat to

national sovereignty

A consistent set of values and beliefs about the proper purpose and scope of government is a(n)

political ideology

According to the text, the concept of order encompasses

preserving life, protecting property and maintaining patterns of social relationship

The value of using political concepts in understanding government is that they​

provide for a broader view than looking at specific events

Services that benefit all citizens and are not likely to be produced by the voluntary acts of individuals are known as

public goods

Western Europe's experience with democratic socialism demonstrates that

socialism can be practiced along with personal freedoms and democratic participation.

The State of Nature refers to

society without government

The broad, basic definition of politics given by the text is

the authoritative allocation of values for a society.

​Since 1964, government policies intended to help families have most clearly benefited

the wealthy

An underlying assumption of the text is that perfect freedom and order can never be achieved because

these two values are inherently in conflict and cannot be provided simultaneously

Which political philosopher expressed the sentiment that life in a state of nature would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short?"

​Thomas Hobbes

​Critics charged that Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty" had failed because

​about 15 percent of families were still living in poverty


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