POSC 225 Exam 1 Jones NIGHTIGALE COLLEGE Question and answers correctly solved POSC 225 Exam 1 Jones
Politics is defined as - correct answer -the process by which individuals/groups reach an agreement on a course of common collective action
During this process, - correct answer -individu...
POSC 225 Exam 1 Jones
Politics is defined as - correct answer ✔-the process by which
individuals/groups reach an agreement on a course of common collective
action
During this process, - correct answer ✔-individuals and groups continue to
disagree on the goals that action is intended to achieve
Therefore, - correct answer ✔-politics involves the management of conflicting
ideas, values, and interests
-sometimes it's not pretty
CURRENT ISSUE: POTUS meets with Congress - correct answer ✔-
televised 55 minute bipartisan meeting to discuss immigration policy
Currently we have a Republican Congress and White House, this is known as
a - correct answer ✔-unified gov't
-yet you still need support from the Senate Democrats
What is the collective action problem here? - correct answer ✔-R want
comprehensive reform w/ more border security
-D want only DACA fix
What is DACA? - correct answer ✔-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
-Dreamers Action
-Obama program that allows children of illegal immigrants to legally work and
study in the US
,Trump would like this program to phase out, which would lead Congress to
find a - correct answer ✔-legislative solution
-Obama passed this as an executive order once it didn't pass in Congress
Trump seemed to support D DACA approach until - correct answer ✔-
corrected by R party leaders
John Adams HBO - correct answer ✔-second continental congress
-1775 PA
-undeclared Revolutionary War underway with the Battles of Lexington and
Concord
Delegates were there from all 13 colonies - correct answer ✔MA-> John
Adams
PA-> Ben Franklin and John Dickinson (pro-royalist)
VA-> Thomas Jefferson and George Washington
-OLIVE BRANCH PETITION for one last attempt before war
Film Themes - correct answer ✔-conflict between liberty vs. loyalty to crown
-war avoidance
-pragmatism
-compromise vs. principle
Founders disagreed about many things, yet agreed that the federal gov't -
correct answer ✔SHOULD
-fix collective action problems better than status quo (Articles of
Confederation)
,-protect nation against foreign threats
-control economic and violent chaos
SHOULD NOT
-threaten individual liberty or impose "tyranny of the majority"
-excessively limit state sovereignty
The people would be sovereign, but kept out of the say-to-day gov't
operations; therefore, - correct answer ✔-a gov't is not too weak or not too
strong
-STRONG ENOUGH
Strongish Gov't - correct answer ✔Why not too strong?
-experience w/ monarchy
-valued state sovereignty
-"tyranny of the majority"
Why not too weak?
-collective action problems (lack of coordination for large groups, free riders,
tragedy of the commons)
-concerns of chaos, nat'l security, trade, finance, etc.
Free-Rider Problem - correct answer ✔-with each individual's contribution to
the success of the collective activity being quite small and seemingly
inconsequential
-each member will be tempted to free ride
-emphasizes efforts of individuals to avoid contributing to the creation or
preservation of a public good
, Tragedy of the Commons - correct answer ✔-individuals' costless
consumption of a public good that results in its ruination
-collapse of cod fishing industry off coast of New England
republic is perhaps the most complex gov't in the world/what we have - correct
answer ✔-smaller "r" is the republican form of democracy
-citizens delegate governing to elected officials
-representative democracy
-the republic addresses the costs of collective action above
not a direct democracy, which - correct answer ✔-citizens make policy
decisions themselves via referenda, initiatives, and town hall meetings
-all citizens deliberate and vote
-we would have an indirect democracy
Costs of Collective Action include - correct answer ✔-collective actions i
action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their
status and achieve a common objective
-conformity costs
-transaction costs
Conformity Costs - correct answer ✔-when collective decisions obligate
individuals to act counter to their preferences and interests, etc.
Transaction Costs - correct answer ✔-time, effort, resources required to
make collective decisions
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