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.