Module 1 Quiz
According to your book, what differentiates political systems?
The extent of government control over individuals' lives and the social order.
The arenas in which government power is exercised and where political struggle takes place are called
institutions
Which of the following is not given in your book as a reason why it is important to learn critical thinking?
It makes us healthier.
Government assurances that the rules will work smoothly and treat everyone fairly, with no promises of particular outcomes, are ______.
procedural guarantees
The text suggests that hashtag activism offers ordinary citizens a way to
regain power over political narratives.
Which of the following countries is an advanced industrial democracy?
the United States
Power is defined in your text as ______.
the ability to get other people to do what you want
The central democratic institution of the elite theory of democracy is ______.
the electoral process
In socialist economies, control over economic decisions is exercised by ______.
the government
The key difference between pure capitalist economies and pure socialist economies is that ______.
the market controls economic decisions in capitalist economies, whereas politicians make economic decisions in socialist economies
Your book says that power is the ability to get others to do your bidding, which frequently includes control of
the media.
The narrative of the social contract was intended to negate
the narrative of the divine right of kings.
Public-interested citizenship views human nature as
concerned with the public good.
In an authoritarian system, the people have ______.
obligations but no rights
The acronym for the steps of critical thinking that we lay out in Chapter 1 of your text is
CLUES.
Dan Savage was a key organizer of
It Gets Better
How do rules fit into the concept of "who gets what, and how"?
Rules can be thought of as the "how."
The most common kind of online political engagement in the Snapshot of America on that subject was
"liking" political material posted by others.
What is the principle way we engage in analysis in our textbook?
By applying the framework of "who gets what and how they get it."
What is the key difference between a citizen and a subject?
Citizens have rights as well as obligations, but subjects have only obligations.
The narrative of ______ implies that humans are rational beings with the ability to unlock nature's secrets
Classical liberalism
______ can be described as a system or an organization for exercising authority over a body of people.
Government
A populist would support which of the following viewpoints?
In a democracy power is concentrated among the elite at the expense of ordinary people.
According to the text, what are the competing views of what it means to be a citizen that exist today in the United States?
One view holds that individual participation in government should be limited because human nature is overly self-interested, whereas the other view places faith in the citizen's ability to act virtuously.
What is defined as a story that people believe about who has power, who wants power, who deserves power, and what someone has done to get and maintain power?
Political narrative
Which of the following reflects the type of economic system found in the United States?
Regulated capitalism, in which business has substantial freedom from government interference, but the government does step in and regulate the economy to guarantee individual rights
Laws against theft are an example of which of the following?
Restrictions on collective life typically found in democracies.
______ refers to a particular view of how we ought to organize and live our collective lives.
Social order
What was the effect of the Protestant Reformation on European politics?
The Catholic Church lost religious and political clout, paving the way for new political ideas about the source of legitimacy for governments.
According to the Snapshot of America on online engagement, which response did more people say being involved politically online had on them?
They became more active in an issue after reading about it online.
Which of the following is an example of a benefit enjoyed by today's mediated citizenry?
They have unprecedented access to information.
Which of the following occurs when we customize our personal social media in such a way that it only reinforces what we already think?
We find ourselves in an information bubble.
The two central tasks (not to be confused with the steps) of critical thinking are
analysis and evaluation.
The Declaration of Independence is an example of which of the following?
a political narrative
The Enlightenment led to the theory that government is based on ______.
a social contract
The concept of republican virtue is what scholars such as Madison called the ______.
ability of democratic citizens to put the community's interests ahead of their own
Self-interested citizenship views human nature as
ambitious and self-centered.
The first step of critical thinking requires a reader to
analyze the source of the argument.
In a(n) ______ system, government allows people complete economic freedom but maintains stringent social regulations to limit noneconomic behavior.
authoritarian capitalist
A political system in which the state holds all power over the social order is ______.
authoritarian government
According to the authors, which of the following can often easily exploit populist movements?
authoritarian groups or individuals
The market controls economic decisions in a(n) ______ economy.
capitalist
According to the social contract, what is the source of government's legitimacy?
citizen consent
The central concept of the pluralist theory of democracy is that the following is the key to political power:
citizen participation in groups
We engage in evaluations in this book by seeing how well American democracy performs in terms of
citizenship roles.
Unlike citizens of America's founding generation, modern, mediated citizens have the capacity to do which of the following?
create and disseminate their own narratives
The fifth step of critical thinking requires a reader to
determine the political significance of the argument.
People who were born in the twenty-first century and whose lives are almost completely mediated are known as ______.
digital natives
In the Middle Ages, some monarchs claimed to take their authority from God, a principle called ______.
divine right of kings
The role of citizens is limited to choosing among competing leaders in the ______ theory of democracy.
elite
The fourth step of critical thinking requires a reader to
evaluate the author's conclusions.
The second step of critical thinking requires a reader to
find the author's basic premises and assumptions.
According to your book, before people were literate and educated, there were very few
gatekeepers of information.
The major goal of the text is to ______.
get students to think critically about American politics
Dan Savage's key to getting people to take social action is to
give them one doable thing to do.
In authoritarian systems ______, whereas in nonauthoritarian systems ______.
government makes substantive decisions about how people ought to live their lives; government merely guarantees that there are fair rules and leaves the rest to individual control
Viral calls that lead to political activism are known as ______.
hashtag activism
Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, the It Gets Better Project and Never Again are all examples of
hashtag activism.
We are more likely to see examples of public-interested citizenship in the United States
in times of national crisis.
Analysis is important for students of politics because ______.
it helps us understand how something works
Athenian democracy was like American democracy in its early years in that
large numbers of residents were excluded from voting.
Authority is power that citizens view as
legitimate.
Anarchists value ______.
liberty over order and security
The third step of critical thinking requires a reader to
look for evidence of the authors claims.
People whose personal and professional relationships typically involve third-party channels can be called ______.
mediated citizens
Which of the following are tacit guidelines that help determine acceptable political behavior?
norms
A democratic narrative that holds that citizens should actively and directly control all aspects of their lives is ______.
participatory democracy
Literacy was still limited among average citizens at the time of the founding, giving major narrative-setting power to
political elites.
Because of technology, control of ______________, which used to belong to kings and priests, can now be in the hands of everyday citizens.
political information
In a socialist economy, economic decisions are determined by ______.
political leaders, on the basis of what society needs
A major goal in politics is competing to have your ________ accepted as the authoritative account of who should have power.
political narrative
In the relationship between politics and government, ______.
politics is the process or activity through which power is gained and lost, whereas government is a system for exercising authority over a body of people
A republic is different from a democracy in that it relies on
representation by elected officials.
In the United States, the rules call for the institutions of
representative democracy.
The major difference between the elitist, pluralist, and participatory democratic naarrtives is related to the ______.
role of the people in decision making
The two competing views of citizenship that exist today in the United States see humans acting out of ______.
self-interest versus common good
James Madison thought that average citizens ______.
should have limited participation in government
Many European countries follow the theory of ______, which is a hybrid system combining a capitalist economy and a government that supports equality.
social democracy
Individuals who are obliged to submit to a government authority against which they have no rights are ______.
subjects
Government assurances of particular outcomes or results are ______.
substantive guarantees
The break with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1500s that helped pave the way for new ideas about the world was ______.
the Protestant Reformation
The doctrine that society is based on an agreement between government and the governed, in which people agree to give up some rights in exchange for the protection of others, is called ______.
the social contract
Political systems can be organized on a continuum of more to less government control over
the social order.
The major difference between anarchy and democracy is that in anarchy, ______.
there is no government.
A ______ system combines an authoritarian government with a socialist economy.
totalitarian
Norms are
unwritten rules that support the democratic order.
The social contract was the Enlightenment's answer to the fundamental question of
what is the source of government's legitimacy?
Politics is defined in your text as ______.
who gets what, when, and how