Political Science
According to Mochizuki (2019), the report on a project conducted by UNESCO MGIEP in partnership with the UNESCO Asia Pacific RegionalBureau for Education concepts in national education policies and curricula in 22 countries in Asia revealed that:
- All the mentioned
Describe the socio political organization of Kazakh nomads:
- All the mentioned
According to the Carbon footprint inequality what % of population is responsible for the global carbon emissions?
1%
Paris Agreement set a goal to bring global energy related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050 in order to limit the globaltemperature rise to...
1.5 °C
When and where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that arose from the experience of the World War IIwas signed?
10 December 1948, Paris
Plans of Kazakhstan in 2030 to combat climate change includes to decrease carbon emissions by...
10%
According to Vakulchuk & Overland (2021) energy transition is causing a surge in demand for minerals for clean energytechnologies. Based on their research how many critical minerals (out of 22) does Kazakhstan have?
18
Based on ethnographic observations in Kazakhstan in 1988-89 by the Institute of Ethnography at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, how many urban dwellers in Kazakhstan had no command over Kazakh language?
3/4
How many political parties are officially registered in Kazakhstan?
7 political parties
According to the International Energy Agency, in Kazakhstan what % of electricity generation did coal fuel in 2018?
70%
What % of energy mix represents coal, oil and natural gas in Kazakhstan?
75%
The end of the Cold War marked one of the great turning points in modern international relations. What event marked another turning point after that?
9/11 terrorist attack in New York
What is the Caste system?
A four-tiered system of the world's oldest social hierarchy, similar to European feudal system, oppressive in restricting any opportunity to change one's occupational or social status
What is a definition of 'nation'?
A human group forming a community, sharing a common culture, having a common past and a common projectfor the future
What is "anti Semitism"?
A wide range of attitudes and expressions, from individual hostility tolegal discrimination and violence against Jews as a group
What can best describe the environmental policy
A wide range of governmental actions that deal with conservation or efficient use of natural resources such as public landsand waters, wilderness, and wildlife
What are the names of newspapers where Kazakh intelligentsia debated questions such as the future of nomadism, land reforms,autonomy, Kazakh language reforms and literacy and education in Kazakh language in the beginning of XX century?
Ai qap & Qazaq
What are the changing conceptions of ICT according to Rosenau & Singh (2002)?
All
How Walker (1990) characterized the principle of hierarchical political subordination in the medieval system?
All individuals were located at particular levels of society: at the top stood God (Jesus, Allah), and under God,the Pope (Imam) and the Emperor/King
According to Dave (2017), what was the condition of Kazakh language in Soviet Kazakhstan?
All of the mentioned
What are the patterns of contemporary IR (international relations)?
All of the mentioned
What were the basic objectives of Alash Orda according to Dave (2007)?
All of the mentioned
development worldwide?
All of the mentioned
According to the World Nuclear Association, current nuclear reactors in the global market are improved to endure cataclysms such as:
All of them
What variant better describes the Nürnberg Laws?
All the mentined
Please select the perspectives of political and socio economic development of Kazakhstan according to Toimbek (2021):
All the mention
Shape of political and economic institutions...
All the mention
According to Dave (2007) how does the Soviet education in Kazakhstan look like?
All the mentioned
According to Owen (2017), what is the New Media?
All the mentioned
Based on Hacker (2016) the most tanglible enablers of digital communication for democracy are:
All the mentioned
Define the non democratic forms of geovernment:
All the mentioned
Feminist studies define security to include diminution of all forms of violence, such as:
All the mentioned
How did the education in independent Kazakhstan evolve?
All the mentioned
It is well established that education systems are among the most important agents of nation- building. What is the instumental role of education in developing nation identity and human resources according to Mochizuki(2019)?
All the mentioned
Liberalism always devides the world into:
All the mentioned
Name the mojor political ideologies nowadays:
All the mentioned
Please select the statement that does NOT favour democracy
All the mentioned
Political science is mostly called as interdisciplinary subject that includes other disciplines, such as
All the mentioned
State the failures of Marxism
All the mentioned
To achieve optimum safety, nuclear plants in the western world operate using a 'defence in- depth' approach, with multiple safety systemssupplementing the natural features of the reactor core. Key aspects of the approach are
All the mentioned
Union led to the:
All the mentioned
What are the basic principles of liberal demoracy
All the mentioned
What are the building blocks of ideology
All the mentioned
What are the economically driven types of government?
All the mentioned
What are the forms of discrimination?
All the mentioned
What are the general accepted axioms of a Utilitarian State?
All the mentioned
What are the main methodologies of Political Science:
All the mentioned
What are the major branches of institutions in Kazakhstan?
All the mentioned
What did the Feminism mean in the beginning of women emancipatory movements?
All the mentioned
What did the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a German Austrian SS-Obersturmbannführer, bring into light for many social scientists?
All the mentioned
What does 'hegemony' mean?
All the mentioned
What is Genocide as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide?
All the mentioned
What is definition of inclusive institutions? - All the mentioned What is the political institution?
All the mentioned
What is political institution
All the mentioned
What is the 'good governcance
All the mentioned
What is the Socially constructed notion of gender?
All the mentioned
What is the changing scope of governance by information technologies according to Rosenau and Singh (2002)?
All the mentioned
What is the definition of communism in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx?
All the mentioned
What is the definition of extrative institutions?
All the mentioned
What is the desciption of 'national secutiry policy'
All the mentioned
What is the key policymaking institutions in energy sector governance in Kazakhstan?
All the mentioned
What is the main characteristic of Pacification Process?
All the mentioned
What is the threat of ascendance of fake news?
All the mentioned
What kind of cultural damage brought the promotion of econimic transformation through massive social and ideological engineering of Soviet Union?
All the mentioned
What variant best describes the political institutions and economic incentives in Kazakhstan?
All the mentioned
What was the main reason of Asharshylyq in 1930's?
All the mentioned
Why Central Asian social scientists argue about long term effect of Soviet politics to national identity of Kazakhstan, pointing to 'mankurtizatsiia' of the nations?
All the mentioned
yet economically and socially oppressed and thus unable to use one's political freedoms equally. Based on Hacker (2016) what are the limitations of digital democracy?
All the mentioned
Rasmussen stated about a political theory as it is "Something that's focusing on tradition, inherited rights and practices, ways of doing things that have stood the test of time and attributing importers to them for that very fact." What political theory the scholar was talking about?
Anti-Enlightenment
What term is used to describe the discriminatory social structure towards black population of South Africa in the XX century?
Apartheid
How many nuclear tests in Semipalatinsk polygon had been tested by Soviet governmatn from 1949 -1991?
Around 450
To preserve a livable climate, greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to net zero by 2050. Many world governments committed to giveup the use of fossil fuels and transit to the renewables. Where does Kazakhstan's climate agenda stand in energy transition by 2050?
Around 50%
According to Owen (2017) what are the main challenges of providing political information?
Audience members have to work hard to distinguish fact from fiction, and to differentiate what matters from what isinconsequential
What is Homophobia
Aversion, bias, or discriminatory actions, attitudes, or beliefs directed toward individuals who either have or are perceived as having nonheterosexual identities
Why do scientists believe that there will be no second Chernobyl in modern nuclear power plants?
Because 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was the result of major design deficiencies in the RBMK type ofreactor, which is absent in modern reactors
Where the term 'cult of personality' originated?
By Nikita Khrushchev denouncing Joseph Stalin
What is the definition of public policy?
Collective term for the objectives and actions of government
What is the normative position in world politics?
Commitment to charge the world, make the world a better place
What is Cult of personality
Common practivce of promotion religious types of devotion to their national leader
What is the main idea of Behavioralism?
Concentrates on processes of politics associated with mainstream politics and government
What type ot political ideology focuses on tradition, inherited rights and practices, ways ot doing things that have stood the test of time
Conservatism
According to Owen (2017) what are the main challenges of providing political information?
Content can be relayed with no significant third-party filtering, fact-checking, or editorial judgement
What are the central elements of mass belief system?
Core beliefs and values
What is "political oppression"?
Creation of material, legal, military, economic, and/or other social barriers to the fulfilment of self-determination,distributive justice, and democratic participation of definite social groups.
According to the Akseleu Seidembekov, a Kazakh writer and an academic at the Institute of Literature at the Kazakh Academy of Sciences,what does the "mankurtizatsiia of the nations" mean?
De-ethnicization, cultural amnesia, the loss of group solidarity symbolized by the Kazakh aul, the demise of the rich oral traditionof the nomads, and above all, the erasure of genealogy and memory which were so central to a nomadic identity
Strategic Defense Initiative of the Reagan's administration during the Cold War, derisively nicknamed the "Reagan's StarWars Programme" proposed to...
Develop new nonnuclear weapon systems, such as kinetic energy weapons, directed energy weapons, and microwave energy weapons.
Name the forms of democratic political system:
Direct and Representative
What is Xenophobia?
Disdain for individuals or groups of persons that are different from oneself. Literally means a 'fear of a stranger'
What was the main socio political organization of Kazakh nomads?
Division to triparty system of hordes (zhuz) and clans (ru)
When did entire Kazakh intelligentsia affiliated with the Alash leadership annihilated?
During the Stalin terror campaigns in 1930s
Select the political theorists of Anti Enlightenment?
E.Burke and P.M.Foucault
What was the consequence of collectivization in Soviet Kazakhstan?
Economic and humanitarian catastrophe, pastoral nomadism was destroyed for good
Feminism as an academic discipline link constructing knowledge to political practice that is called:
Emancipatory knowledge
Select the argument that favors globalization
Emergence of a global polity, with transnational social and political movements to solve world matters
What sector is responsible for almost three quarters of the greenhouse emissions?
Energy What are the current energy related challenges for Kazakhstan? - All the mentioned
Please, select the sequence of the development of Western political thoughts
Enlightnment, AntiEnlightnment, Democracy
What concept is at a core of the Merxist tradition?
Exploitation of working class
What is the main economic revenue of Kazakhstan?
Extraction of natural resources
Who considered the necessary presence of the quality of justice in the perfect man, who must «love ... justice and its advocates, hate injusticeand tyranny of those from whom they come; to be fair to her and to others, to encourage justice and indemnify the victims of injustice ... tobe fair, but not stubborn, do not be capricious and not to persist in the face of justice, but to be quite adamant to every injustice andmeanness...».?
Farabi
global disarmament action start?
February 1989
Gender is considered crucial for analysing global politics and economics, particularly with respect to issues of inequality, insecurity, and socialjustice. What discourse studies these concepts?
Feminism
How many theoretical approaches of comparative politics according to Hauge et al (2019)?
Five: Institutionalism, Rational Choice, Structuralism, Cultural & Interpretivism
How many stages of overcoming oppression according to Watts and Abdul
Five: acritical, adaptive, pre-critical, critical, liberation
The word idéologie first made its appearance in French, when it was introduced by a philosopher, A.L.-C. Destutt de Tracy. What historicalevent led to that?
French Revolution
According to Magno & Silova (2007) what notion is mostly received little attention in educational reforms of Central Asian countries?
Gender equity
According to the UN Women "Gender equality is not only a basic human right, but its achievement has enormous socio economicramifications. Empowering women fuels thriving economies, spurring productivity and growth". Select the correct calculation of by McKinsey& Co report on the boost of global GDP by 2025 as a result of gender equality:
Global GDP will rise by 26% or $28 trillion
Select the argument against globalization:
Globalizatipn is merely a buzzword to denote the latest phase of capitalism
Who is involved in formulating policy proposals in liberal democracies?
Government, governmental agencies, legislators and executive branches, organizations and interest groups.
What is the MAIN reason to shrinking Aral Sea?
Grand agricultural designs of Khrushchev with gargantuan push to divert Central Asian rivers to water cotton crops
Mass belief system is closely connected to the...
Ideology
Please select the statement that does NOT favour totalitarianism:
In a state there have to be a division of state power in order to avoid the concentration of all power in one hand
What are the strengths of case study?
In-depth study of people, events, countries, elections, or other political questions
Define forms of political and economic institutions according to Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2012)
Inclusive and Extractive
Please select the correct sequence of policy making stages according to Hague & Harrop (2015):
Initiation, Formulation, Implementation, Evaluation, Review
A definition of oppresion as process is given by Mar'I (1988) is:
Institutionalized collective and individual modes of behavior through which one group attempts to dominate and control anotherin order to secure political, economic, and/or social advantage.
What are the main reasons behind poverty and prosperity between North and South Korea, ogales Arizona aNnd Sonora, Austria and Kazkhstan
Institutions
What is "political participation"?
Involvement in collective decision-making (extent to which citizens participate (or are allowed to participate) in theprocess of governing)
What is the humanist feminism political theory?
It argues that a new ideal of the human subject and a new set of values ought to be part of a collective political project seeking emancipation for both women and men
What is the radical feminism political theory?
It argues that by taking up devalued 'feminine' characteristics, one willingly takes up a subordinated position in the family and inthe political world; by taking up 'masculine' characteristics and despising the feminine, one supports the notion that thesemasculine traits are superior
What is the socialist feminism political theory?
It argues that one could be politically equal and
What is the liberal feminism political theory?
It argues that the balues of liberalism embodied in this subject are important: autonomy, equality and justice are goals, toward which feminists should aim
One of the building blocks of ideology is political authority, which implies:
It assumes that a small group of elites 'Know' and is capable of governing on the basis of certain qualities
What is the Socialism according to Kenton (2021)?
It contends that shared ownership of resources and central planning provide a more equal distribution of goods and services and a more equitable society
What is the Liberalism according to Alexander (2014)?
It divides the world into three: into what is intrinsically necessary (the self), what is necessary to support that intrinsic necessity (asystem of standards, rules, laws), and what is contingent (everything else, including all other beliefs, practices and institutions.
What is democratic political system?
It is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives
What is the democratic political system?
It is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
What are the main features of Theocracy?
It is a form of government in which official policy is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded asdivinely guided or is pursuant to the doctrine of a particular religion or religious group
What are the main features of Oligarchy?
It is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people that could bedistinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, or military control.
What is 'absolutism'?
It is a historical term for a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute authority, unrestricted by any other institution, such as churches, estates, a constitution, laws, or opposition
What is 'colonialism'?
It is a particular relationship of domination between states, involving a wide range of interrelated strategies, including territorialoccupation, population settlement, and extraction of economic resources by the colonizing state.
What does "collectivization" mean?
It is a policy pursued in the Soviet Union and most other communist countries, which refers to a process where privateagricultural lands were seized by the state and transferred either to collective farms (kolkhoz in Russian) or state farms (sovkhoz).
Please select the right description for 'ethnic cleansing'. Select one:
It is the intentional act of removing by force or threat of force any national, ethnic, religious, racial, or socioeconomically homogeneous group from a specified area of land
Define the Totalitarian dictatorship
It is the most oppressive political system that attempts to control all aspects of its subjects' lives through fear andintimidation; including occupation, religious beliefs, number of children permitted in each family
What is legitmacy
It limits us and determines what we can and cannot do according to the law
Select the correct definition of political participation in authoritarian states:
It typically operates through informal sectors such as social groups, art, music, literature, rather than formalchannels such as political parties
Select the political theorists of Utilitarianism
J.Bentham andd J.S.Mill
Who is considered as a founder of classical utilitarianism?
Jeremy Bentham
According to Dave (2017), of all Soviet republics, what country experienced the most dramatic changes in its ethnic composition throughout the Soviet years?
KZ
Aftermath of Kazakh Famine by late 1933, Soviet government renewed their efforts to bring limited numbers of refugees back to Kazakhstan. Where did they aim to settle them?
Labor deficit regions
According to whom Political Science is "Who gets what, when and how"?
Lasswell
What is T. Hobbes famous book?
Leviathan
What aspects the study of public opinion focus to understand? - All of the above What is considered as "Fourth Estate"
Mass Media
What is the Utilitarianism?
Maximizing the greatest happiness of the greatest number
In which experiment the problem of obedience to authority is considered and it answers the question 'How Far Will You Go to Obey Orders"
Milgram's obedience experiment
What type of party system is in Kazakhstan?
Multi-party system
What is Dhimmi? - An obligation of the state to protect the non
Muslim subjcts in occupied territories, including the individual's life, property, and freedom of religion and worship, and required loyalty to the empire, and a poll tax known as the jizya
Who said that 'Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world'?
Nelson Mandela
Select the description of Indian caste system according o Hinduism
One should not attempt to alter one's destiny or change one's occupational or social status, but to commit life to one's current degree or estate
The Alash leader Alikhan Bukeikhanov drew attention to the presence of two competing elites in 1910, such as:
Open to European values and Muslims formed in madrassas
What is the name of military suppression of Jeltoqsan in 1986 by Soviet security forces?
Operation Metel'(Snowstorm)
Who believed that the world has to be governed by philosopher kings?
Plato
What are the general forms of oppression?
Political and psychological
According to the book "Why nations fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" by Daron Acemogulu and James A. Robinson, what is the biggest reason of countries progress or regress
Political institutions
What is the Political Science according to the Lasswell (1950)?
Political trust and the perceived legitmacy of institutions
What is the Political Science in genetal terms?
Power relationship
What was the condition of Kazakh refugees in neighboring countries during and aftermath of Asharshylyq?
Refugees suffered mistreatment and discrimination
Who is AlFarabi?
Renowned and prominent thinker of East
Early Greek, Roman, Jew & Christian thinkers devised a theory of morality, right & justice from nature (God). The Enlightenment theories of politics, in turn, had different commitment, which was based on...
Science
When did the Nevada
Semipalatinsk International Anti-Nuclear Movement as a beginning of
What is the name of the top secret research centre at Semipalatinsk that was built on the edge of the polygon 60 km from ground zero?
Semipalatinsk-21
What were the government responses to Asharshylyq - the Kazakh famine in 1930s?
Severe measures against organizers of flight (otkochevka), as well as those who stole grain or livestock
What political theory best describes a society where people give up individual freedom to do whatever they want in exchange for peace and protection?
Social Contract
According to Daron Acemogulu and Jams A.Robinson (2012) all the institutions are created by? -
Society
What is Hate Speech?
Speech that vilifies or criticizes individuals and groups based on the categories of race, nationality, and religion
What is the comparative politics
Systematic study of government and politics in different countries designed to better understand them by drawing out their contrast and similarities
Who wrote the famous book Leviathan (1651)?
T.Hobbes
Select political theorists of Social Contract?
T.Hobbes and J.J.Rousseau
What is the ignorance Hypothetis
That with the right advice and by convincing politicians of what is good they can "engineer" prosperity
What can be identified as the beginning of the nuclear arms race between the US and the Soviet Union?
The Manhattan Project, The Trinity Test (July, 1945), Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings (August, 1945).
Give example of totalitarian regime?
The Soviet Union
What country is HISTORICALLY responsible for climate change?
The USA
Al Farabi's political philosophy identified the features, which can help in creating the project of a welfare state, where high morality of peopleand a religious head of that city play key roles. Name that work
The Virtuous City
What is the closest definition to 'heteronormativity' in societies?
The assumption that heterosexuality is and should be the norm and that only opposite-sex marriage is "natural"
What does Politeia mean in an ancient Greel?
The community of citizns in a city/state
What is the Normative conception (Philosophical theory or Ethical theory) of the Political Science?
The concept is based on the belief that the world and its events can be interpreted in terms of logic, purpose and ends with the help of the political theorist's intuition, reasoning, insights and experiences. In other words, philosophical speculation about values
Please, describe the FIRST stage of Kazakhstan's socio economic development after the Independence:
The country failed to continue utilizing it's resources and as a result of weak political and economic conditions, the country faced disastrous social and economic consequences
What does the word 'unipolarity' mean according to Baylis (2020)?
The economic and political power of the USA with the absence or comparatively vulnerability of other global challengers in theend of the XX century
What is the Conservatism according to Utley (1989)?
The highest virtue in politics is to resist change until change becomes inevitable, and then to concede to it with as littlefuss and as much obeisance to tradition as possible
What is the Social Contract political theory?
The idea of agreement of consent as the forming the basis for government
What does nepotism mean?
The practice of power, high positions, and influence in favor of relatives or friends
What does 'bipolarity' mean in the world politics?
The presence of rivarly between two superpowers
Select the correct definition of the Cold War:
The rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union developed from the ceasefire lines of the World War II.
What is "political behaviour"?
The study of the way people think, feel, and act with regard to politics
What is Hegemony?
The tendency toward domination without consent, successful manipulation of cultural and social institutions to shape the limits of economic and political opportunities from the dominant group of society.
How many periods of the development of political parties in Kazakhstan, according to Z.K. Shaukenova?
Three (1990 - 2002; 2002 - 2006; 2006 - the present)
What was the governmental responses to Kazakh famine Asharshylyq?
Took severe measures against organizers of flight (otkochevka), as well as those who stole grain or livestock (called "enemies" and used brutal forms of punishment, including shooting)
What is the J. Locke's most important and influential political writings?
Two Treatises and Government
A variety of conditions raise obstacles or create problems for the effective accomplishment of policy evaluation, such as:
Uncertainty of policy goals, difficulty in determining causality, difficulties in data acquisition, official resistance, limited time perspective and evaluation lacks influence
What is the characteristic of linguistic imperialism during the USSR?
Uninterest in promoting national languages as it denotes people's adherence to "traditionalism"
What political theory advocates for maximizing the greatest happiness of the greatest number?
Utilitarianism
What political theory is illustrated in the Trolley dilemma?
Utilitarianism
To whom does this sentence belong: "All educational systems indoctinate oncoming generation with the basic outlooks and values of the political order?
Valdimer Orlando Key
What is the theory of recurrent cycles in Political Science?
When monarchies degenerate into tyranny, tyrannies are overthrown by aristocracies, which degenerate into oligarchies, oligarchies degenerate into exploiting population, which overthrown by democracies, democracies degenerate into the intolerable instability of the mob rule, where powerful leaders establish themselves as monarchs.
What does linguistic imperialism mean in the context of Kazakhstan under the Soviet Union?
Widening use of Russian in daily life, work and public and provoking negative stereotypes towards the Kazakh language
During the XVII
XVIII centuries due to inconsolable situation with neighboring nations Kazakh khans gradually signed anassistant pack to form a temporary alliance against stronger enemies. Bridges & Sagintayeva (2014) also called this as "aturning point of Kazakhs' voluntary colonization". With what country they became alliances - Russian Empire
What are engines of globalization?
all
According to the Montevideo Convention's (1933) Article 1, The state as a person of international law should possess thefollowing qualifications:
all the mentioned
Asharshylyq (the Kazakh Famine) also had sparked the Soviet Government's total economic collapse due to the...
all the mentioned
Corruption in politics...
all the mentioned
Select the extract that defines the Politics of education:
all the mentioned
What are the forms of discrimination?
all the mentioned
Give example of changes in system of Kazakhstan due to the Bologna process - Division ot higher education to three levels
bachelor's, master's and doctoral
What s the difference femisism political theory?
it argues that rather than deny the 'feminine' or devalue it, feminists ought to support and champion the feminine virtues, and to celebrate women's connectedness to children, family and community, women's closeness to nature, and their cognitive virtues of emotion and imagination rather than cold rationality
Define the Monarchy:
it's a form of government in which a state or policy is ruled by an individual who typically inherits the throne by birth and rules for life or until abdication
What is legitmacy?
it's what boilds down to moral foundations: it involves following a correct, fair, genuine, moral and ethical path
How many models of policy
making in general? - Three: rational (goals set before means), incremental (goals and means are considered together), and garbage can(goals are discovered through actions).
Due to gevernmantal response to the crises and the World Bank investment, what part of Aral sea's water level is increasing?
north
According to Durrani and Badanova (2022) why do the gender
oriented messages and images matter in textbooks? - all the mentioned
Name the famous critic of Democracy who believed what it elects popular spinsters who are effectice in manipulating popular opinions
plato
Name the socio
political exiperiment in which the influence of comfortable conditions to the development ot 'society" was investigated - Universe-25: The Mouse "Utopia" Experiment
Political system is...
the form of governance, the set of legal formal institutions that constitute a government or state
