ap comp midterm
2.) Which description below most accurately describes Iran's Islamic republic?
A unitary gov with a dual executive whose prerogatives and responsibilities are specified in the constitution
4.) All of the following occur as a result of market reforms EXCEPT?
A.) A narrowing of the income gap
21.) Which of the following is a correct statement about elections in Great Britain and Russia?
A.) Both have directly elected upper houses of the legislature
9.) Russia's difficulties with the Chechen region are based primarily on
A.) Disputes over the central government's rights to natural resources
14.) All of the following are responsible for Russia's move away from democracy and toward authoritarianism EXCEPT?
A.) Election fraud.
15.) Which statement best describes the power of the Duma?
A.) It has significant policymaking authority on paper but has been subservient to the President
20.) Which of the following best describes Russian political culture?
A.) Low rates of involvement in interest groups
11.) How has the Putin Administration reacted to the power of the oligarchs?
A.) Those who have criticized Putin have been jailed or exiled.
18.) Russia's treatment of ethnic minorities is best described as
A.) Uneven, discrimination exists towards some ethnic groups, but other groups have significant autonomy
8.) Since 2000 which political party has had the largest percentage of deputies in the Duma?
A.) United Russia
5.) Compared with first-past-the-post, a proportional representation electoral system usually
A.) gives minor parties a better chance at winning seats in a legislature.
25.) The 1993 referendum on the constitution provided Yeltsin with
A.) rational-legal legitimacy
13.) Which of the following countries used Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)?
B.) I and II
22.) Both Mexico and Russia have
B.) Proportional representation in the lower house of the legislature
6.) which of the following appears to b a significant difference between the political view of russian citizens and citizens of most established democracies?
B.) Russians have a highe r sense of political efficacy than citizens in other democracies
27.) Russian foreign policy under Putin has been marked by
B.) a concentrated effort to extend Russian power in the international community
26.) What effect does the change to all proportional representation elections in the Duma have on political parties in Russia?
C. ) Smaller parties have difficulty winning seats in the Duma due to the 7 % threshold.
7-) Political parties in the Russian Federation tend to base their organization on
C.) Personalization of politics and the appeal of particular leaders
19.) Which of the following occurs in a command economy?
C.) Quotas and plans direct production and distribution
13.) What role do patron-client networks play in Russia today?
C.) They continue to play an important role, as they did under the Soviet system
24.) Which of the following is a key component of economic liberalization in former command economies?
D.) Eliminating price controls
29.) Which of the following sets of contrasts is true for ALL parliamentary and presidential systems?
D.) In parliamentary systems, the legislative and executive branches are fused, while in the presidential systems they are separate
17.) All of the following are challenges facing Russia today EXCEPT
D.) The re-emergence of a strong communist party
16.) The relationship between the national government and sub-national governments in Russia can best be described as
D.) asymmetrical federal
28) One similarity between the political systems of Russia and Great Britain is that in both countries the
D.) head of state is also the head of government.
3.) One similarity between the Prime Minister of Russia and the Prime Minister of Great Britain is that both
D.) hold veto power over decisions made by the head of state
23. ) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a measure used to compare countries with respect to
D.) the output of their economies
10.) The President of Russia currently has all of the following powers EXCEPT
E.) Appointing the Prime Minister, without the consent of parliament
1.) An illiberal democracy would be characterized by
E.) elections coupled with restrictions on individual civil liberties
30.) Much of Putin's personal popularity is a result of
E.) his ability to build a partnership with former communist officials
2.) In which of the follow countries has Islam served as a key symbol of regional political movements?
I. Britain II. Russia III. Mexico IV. Nigeria B.) II and III
12.) Which of the following were consequences of ending the centrally planned economy in russia after 1991?
I. Increased unemployment II. Decentralized production decisions III. An increase in the number of individually owned enterprises IV. A decrease in corruption C.) I, II, and III only
1.) Iranian government, with its parallel religious structures, is most similar to the government of
Mexico
4. Which statement below is an accurate description of the role of the military in Mexico and Nigeria in the past 50 years?
a. In both systems, the military has often governed the lieu of civilian governments.
19.) Which of the following is the best example of a ruler with primarily charismatic legitimacy?
a.) Ayatollah Khomeini
15.) All of the following have a President EXCEPT
a.) I only
7.) All of the following are pillars of clerical control in Iranian government EXCEPT
a.) The Majles
20.) Unitary states, like the UK and Iran,
a.) seem less likely to provide unity in countries with diversities of ethnic or cultural characteristics than do federal states
11.) Which of the ollowing structures in Russia's government is most comparable to the Majles in Iran?
a.) the Duma
1. Which of the following do Great Britain and Nigeria have in common?
b. Both countries have ethnie-diversity and-strong regional identities.
21.) In Iran, the traditional sources political cleavage of ethnicity and language do NOT cause major conflict because of the crosscutting influence of
b.) Shi'ismm
22.) In which of the following ways did the Iranian revolution of 1979 resemble the Chinese revolution of 30 years earlier?
b.) The leaders of both revolution personified charismatic authority.
24.) A rentier state is state that
b.) derives a substantial portion of its revenue on a regular basis from payments by foreign concerns in the form of rent
10.) All of the following are linkage institutions EXCEPT
b.) the association of militant clerics
9. All of the following are reasons for the widespread poverty in Nigeria EXCEPT
c. Lack of valuable natural resources
14. Which of the following statements best characterizes Nigerian society?
c. Religious diversity, ethnic diversity, linguistic diversity
6. Public policy in Nigeria is influenced by both domestic and international factors. All the following factors are central to the Nigerian policy-making process EXCEPT
c. Single -party dominance in the legislature
2. Political life in the Nigerian Fourth Republic can be characterized by all of the EXCEPT
c. The absence of political parties
12. Which of the following is an empirically based statement about politics in Nigeria?
c. There are many major ethnic groups, and hundreds of smaller groups, Nigeria,
16.) Which country has the largest gap between male and female literacy rates?
c.) Iran
25.) All of the following countries have a significant middle-class, as measured by per capita GDP, EXCEPT
c.) Nigeria
5.) All of following characteristics of Iranian elections EXCEPT
c.) well organized, two-party system
3.) A theocracy is best described as a political system based on
clerical authority
3. Which of the following is true of women in Nigeria?
d. They enjoy more freedom in the southern region than they do in the north.
12.) Which of the following countries have a well-developed party system
d.) II and IV only
8.) The theory of the revolution of rising expectations, or a J-curve revolution, states th revolutions are most likely to occur when people are
d.) doing so well that greed sets in to spur them to protest
18.) The largest possible source of discontent in Iran is/are
d.) university students and other young adults with little recollection of the 1979 Revolution
5. Britain's imposition of a federal political structure on Nigeria was significant because it
e. Aggravated ethno-nationalism when regional boundaries coincided with ethnic divisions
7. Nigeria has significantly increased its importance as a regional power through its leadership in which of the following organizations?
e. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
11. Which of the following pairs of countries have federal systems?
e. Mexico and Nigeria
13. In Nigeria, Sharia law is part of the legal system in the
e. Northern region
8. Nigeria's democratization process is best described as a
e. Process interrupted by frequent military intervention
6.) In which of the following group of countries does oil play a significant role in the generation of government revenue?
e.) Nigeria, U.S., Iran
9.) Unlike Mexico and Nigeria, Iran has not experienced
e.) formal colonial rule
14.) Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is generally a better gauge than GDP per capita for the economic well being of a people in a country because PPP takes into consideration
e.) the cost of living
4.) Which of the following is a core principle of the present-day Islamist regime in Iran?
identity d.) Accommodation of Islam to a constitutional framework
23.) all of the following make Iran important in a comparitive politics class EXCEPT
it's attempts to develop a nuclear program
10. Mexican political culture differs from Nigerian political culture in which of the following ways?
we havent studied mexico ya know :)
