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Ferdinand, Garner & Lawson: Politics 1e
© Oxford University Press, 2019.Chapter 01 Test Bank
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 01
01) How did the American political scientist Harold Lasswell summarize political activity?
- ‘The organized power of one class for oppressing another’.
Feedback: ‘The organized power of one class for oppressing another’ is phrase originally attributed to Marx and Engels. Lasswell was concerned with ‘who gets what, when, and how’.
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- ‘Governing mankind by deceiving them’.
Feedback: ‘Governing mankind by deceiving them’ is a phrase associated with Isaac D’Israeli.Lasswell was concerned with ‘who gets what, when, and how’.
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*c. ‘Who gets what, when and how’.
Feedback: This was also the title of his book, written in 1936.
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- ‘Politics is at the heart of all collective social activity’.
Feedback: Politics is at the heart of all collective social activity’ is a phrase attributed to Leftwich.Lasswell was concerned with ‘who gets what, when, and how’
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 02
02) How did Karl Marx understand politics?*a. As the means by which one class oppresses another.Feedback: Politics, for Marx, is about class conflict. In a classless communist society, Marx argued, politics would, therefore, cease to exist.
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- As a way of reaching mutually beneficial compromises.
Feedback: Politics, for Marx, is about class conflict. In a classless communist society, Marx argued, politics would therefore cease to exist.
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- As the natural product of human competitiveness.
Feedback: Politics, for Marx, is about class conflict. In a classless communist society, Marx argued, politics would therefore cease to exist.
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- As an arena for competition between a capitalist and a proletarian party.
Feedback: Politics, for Marx, is about class conflict. In a classless communist society, Marx argued, politics would therefore cease to exist.
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 03
03) A key thesis of the ‘end of history’ argument is that….
- No-one believes in ideology any longer.
Feedback: The end of history thesis reflects not the lack of ideological belief, the dominance of communist values, or the literal end of the world, but the claim that liberal democratic values have become dominant.
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*b. Liberal democratic values are dominant.Feedback: The end of history thesis reflects not the lack of ideological belief, the dominance of communist values or the literal end of the world, but the claim that liberal democratic values have become dominant.
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- Karl Marx was right after all.
Feedback: The end of history thesis reflects not the lack of ideological belief, the dominance of communist values or the literal end of the world, but the claim that liberal democratic values have become dominant.
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© Oxford University Press, 2019.
- The end of the world is coming.
Feedback: The end of history thesis reflects not the lack of ideological belief, the dominance of communist values or the literal end of the world, but the claim that liberal democratic values have become dominant.
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 04
04) Andrew Gamble in his book ‘Politics and Fate’ argues which of the following?
- Our fate is out of our control.
Feedback: Gamble seeks to argue that, whilst it is difficult for humans to control their destinies, it is not impossible and therefore we should not just merely accept our fate.
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- Human will can easily prevail.
Feedback: Gamble seeks to argue that, whilst it is difficult for humans to control their destinies, it is not impossible and therefore we should not just merely accept our fate.
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*c. Whilst humans face severe constraints, they can still have some impact on politics.Feedback: Gamble seeks to argue that, whilst it is difficult for humans to control their destinies, it is not impossible and therefore we should not just merely accept our fate.
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- Politics is about fate.
Feedback: Gamble seeks to argue that, whilst it is difficult for humans to control their destinies, it is not impossible and therefore we should not just merely accept our fate.
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Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 05
05) Which of the following types of regime did Aristotle regard as ruling in the interests of all?Feedback: Aristotle distinguished between regimes which ruled in the interests of all from those which ruled in the interests of themselves. His preferred form of government was a monarchy.Democracy was to be avoided because it involved the many or the majority ruling in their own interests.
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*a. Monarchy
- Tyranny
- Democracy
*c. Polity
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 06
06) Which of the following authors argue that politics is the art of finding peaceful resolutions to conflict through compromise and the building of consensus? Please select all that apply.Feedback: Crick and Stoker argue that politics is to do with trying to reach agreement in an amenable way. Both Marx and Hobbes emphasise the conflictual nature of society. The former seek to go beyond a class divided society in order to create a more consensual society, whilst the latter seek to describe how a conflictual society should be governed.
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*a. Bernard Crick *b. Gerry Stoker
- Karl Marx
- Thomas Hobbes
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 07 3 / 4
Ferdinand, Garner & Lawson: Politics 1e
© Oxford University Press, 2019.07) The statement ‘we ought to obey the state’ is a form of which type of political analysis?
- Empirical analysis
Feedback: Empirical analysis is concerned with what is, rather than what ought to be.
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- Semantic analysis
Feedback: Semantic analysis is concerned with defining the concepts that are used in political analysis.
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*c. Normative analysis Feedback: Normative analysis asks questions of a valuational kind, and seeks to identify what is good or better with a view to recommending what we ought to want.
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- Behaviouralism
Feedback: Behaviouralism stresses the importance of the scientific method in the study of social phenomena and is, therefore, a type of empirical analysis.
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 08
08) The logical positivists argued that…
- Meaningful enquiry should contain a mixture of normative and empirical analysis
Feedback: For logical positivists, only statements which are empirically verifiable and those which seek to say something about the meaning of concepts and the relations between them (such as tautologies) are legitimate. Normative statements, seeking to make claims of a valuational kind, are regarded as meaningless.
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- Empirical statements are meaningless
Feedback: For logical positivists, only statements which are empirically verifiable and those which seek to say something about the meaning of concepts and the relations between them (such as tautologies) are legitimate. Normative statements, seeking to make claims of a valuational kind, are regarded as meaningless.
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- Tautologies are meaningless
Feedback: For logical positivists, only statements which are empirically verifiable and those which seek to say something about the meaning of concepts and the relations between them (such as tautologies) are legitimate. Normative statements, seeking to make claims of a valuational kind, are regarded as meaningless.
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*d. Normative statements are meaningless Feedback: For logical positivists, only statements which are empirically verifiable and those which seek to say something about the meaning of concepts and the relations between them (such as tautologies) are legitimate. Normative statements, seeking to make claims of a valuational kind, are regarded as meaningless.
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Type: true-false
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 09
09) ‘Game Theory’ suggests that political actors follow societal mores instead of self-interests.
- True
Feedback: Game theory assumes actors as rational ‘utility-maximizers’ who calculate the costs and benefits of alternative choices and follow the path of action most likely to benefit them.
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*b. False Feedback: Game theory assumes actors as rational ‘utility-maximizers’ who calculate the costs and benefits of alternative choices and follow the path of action most likely to benefit them.
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Type: true-false
Title: Chapter Introduction - Question 10
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