Poli Sci 1010 quiz 2

A big part of the reason the study of international politics is so focused on war is

A direct result of the horrors of world war I

Which of the following are those individuals from whom the group learns the political culture?

Agents of political socialization

What is commonly assumed to be the underlying dynamic of international politics?

Anarchy

The notion of direct democracy is quaint and appealing, but the actual achievement of direct democracy is difficult. For example, direct democracy was possible in Athens only because the city was relatively small and because

Athenians had slaves to do much of their work, so the citizens were free to engage in politics directly

This ancient Greek city-state was a direct democracy

Athens

The way in which the distribution of power across the international system influences the pattern of alliances that tend to form in an anarchic environment is known as the

Balance of power

When a nation allies with an aggressor to carve out its own slice of the spoils, it is engaging in

Bandwagoning

While initiatives themselves may not make it beyond the ballot, they often have positive results in

Bringing legislative attention to issues

What is the term for the set of instinctual and learned filters our minds use in sorting and processing the mass of incoming information?

Cognitive frameworks

Which of the following is not one of the four primary elements that guide the selection of news stories?

Complexity

. Which theoretical perspective claims that international communication is the critical consideration in the study of international relations?

Constructivism

Which of the following statements about culture is false?

Culture alone determines what is possible in a given nation

Which of the following is not true about political culture?

Culture can explain nearly all the differences among nations

In the text, a discussion of the names of U.S. sports teams is used to examine which of the following concepts?

Culture ownership

A political system in which all citizens gather together to share perspectives, debate, and vote on policies is a(n)

Direct democracy

The assumption that states do not make decisions, individuals make decisions, and understanding how those decisions are made within the structure, process, and context of domestic politics is essential for understanding international politics is the theoretical perspective of

Foreign policy analysis

In discussing why things are the way things are in New Zealand, which of the following aspects, aside from culture, does the text emphasize?

Geography

One result of the obsession with preventing another world war was a body of academic study and theory that is often referred to as

Idealism

Which of the following statements about democratic peace is false?

Liberal democracies are less prone to war than are nations with other forms of government

Which of the following is a theoretical perspective on international relations that builds on a foundation of Marxist theory and stresses the internationalization of the exploitative economic relations between classes?

Marxism

.Which political theorist wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he emphasized that culture is a central determining factor in politics, society, and economics?

Max Weber

Which of the following statements about protests is false?

Media coverage of protests provides further evidence of a conspiracy between the media and elites

Which of the following statements is false?

Members of the elite actively discourage the news media from covering their activities

Of the following, which best describes New Zealand's position with regard to U.S. foreign policy?

New Zealand believes it has a moral obligation to defy the United States when the United States acts geostrategically at the expense of democratic and liberal ideals.

Which of the following is offered in the Novel Approach to Politics text as an alternative to culture to explain why New Zealand's TV programming is more sexually permissive than that in the United States?

New Zealanders learn about sex at an earlier age

Which one of the following does not limit our ability to use culture as an explanation for everything political?

Not everything is attributable to culture

Which of the following journalistic norms can actually increase the distortions caused by the dramatic imperative?

Objectivity and fairness

What product do news outlets sell?

Peoples attention

The set of values that a group shares is, in terms of implicit and explicit beliefs, practices, and expectations referred to as

Political culture

The process by which a group teaches the shared social context to the members of society is referred to as

Political socialization

Which of the following best describes the cockroach theory of politics?

Politicians avoid wrong doing out of fear of media exposure

Framing occurs when politicians do which of the following?

Predispose people to interpret facts by carefully choosing and building a conceptual framework

What is the predominant theoretical perspective on international politics?

Realism

Which of the following refers to a question that a legislature puts on the ballot for a vote by the people?

Referendum

. A democratic system in which citizens vote to select who will represent their interests rather than voting on the actual issues of the moment themselves is a(n)

Representative democracy

Democracy means

Rule buy the people

Subcultures represent

Smaller cultures within the main political culture

Which of the following is the problem with using culture to explain political phenomena?

Such an explanation is seductively simple and seems to cover everything, but in truth culture is neither simple nor universal

What is the primary product that the news media sell?

The attention of an audience to Madison Avenue advertisers

Which of the following statements is true?

The choice to go to war is consciously and rationally made by at least one of the participants

Of the following, which is not one of the four factors that are critical to the effectiveness and endurance of the American political system?

The frequent use of referendum

Which of the following statements about cultural ownership is false?

The idea of owning things that are treasured by their communities is sometimes foreign to the cultures of groups seeking protection

Which of the following statements about winner-take-all district elections with primaries is true?

The need to win the primary drives candidates away from the overall center

In order to understand the way the news media operate, it is essential to understand which of the following about the news?

The news is a business

The mutual exploitation model concerns the relationship between which of the following two groups?

The news media and elites

Arrow's theorem demonstrates that elections cannot be the perfect means of making decisions because of which of the following?

The way votes are tallied can significantly alter the outcome.

Which of the following points about the news is false?

There is an emphasis on what is normal

Direct Democracy systems can result in the creation of an unrestrained majority of citizens who band together to rule society with a ferocity and cruelty comparable to a dictator, a(n)

Tyranny of the Majority

The international theory of realism asserts that states are

Unitary rational actors

Which of the following statements regarding proportional representation systems is true?

Voters vote for political parties rather than specific candidates

.What is the only consistent theme likely to be found in fiction about the causes of war?

War is accidental

According to your text, the rationale for U.S. entry into this war was to "make the world safe for democracy."

World War I

Which of the following is not one of the three fundamental assumptions within the great deal of diversity in realist theories?

World peace is the fundamental rescue to be pursued

A hegemon

a dominant power

Faith based religions are often based on

agreement reality

The use of a speech to provide a cognitive framework for understanding an issue, policy, or candidate to predispose people to interpret a myriad of facts and snippets in one way rather than another is referred to as

both a and b

Winner-take-all systems are likely to produce

both a and b

The realities that someone has personally, directly experienced constitute that person's

experimental reality

Which of the following is a process that provides a mechanism for the people to circumvent the legislature?

initiative

Which of the following refers to questions placed on the ballot by citizens?

initiative

The way votes are tallied can significantly alter the outcome.

plurality election

The United States utilizes a Winner-Take-All electoral system wherein a candidate does the following, except

receive a proportion of the legislative seats based on his party's votes earned in the election

An election where the two candidates with the highest pluralities face a secondary election is a(n)

runoff election

which of the following is not one of the three key assumptions of realism?

the core will never fight with the periphery

The one vote in the exact center of the political spectrum is called

the median voter

The seeming collusion between the news media and elites is best explained by

the mutual exploitation model

Which of the following is not an example of the application of culture to the pursuit of political goals?

the use of the "Rape of Kuwait" as a justification for the first Gulf War

Which of the following is NOT an example of an agent of political socialization?

yourself