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PSCI 1101 Exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers. Government - answerorganization with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force to control human behavior Three essential purposes: 1. resolve conflicts 2. provide public services 3. defends nations and its culture against attacks by other nati...

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PSCI 1101 Exam 1 Questions With Correct
Answers.


Government - answer✔✔organization with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force to control
human behavior
Three essential purposes:
1. resolve conflicts
2. provide public services
3. defends nations and its culture against attacks by other nations

Democrats - answer✔✔liberal values
far left

Republicans - answer✔✔conservative values
far right

GOP - answer✔✔"grand old party"
Republicans

Majority Party in House and Senate - answer✔✔House of representatives majority: GOP
Senate majority: Democrats

Divided government - answer✔✔One political party controls presidency while the other controls
at least one chamber of Congress

Fixing the economy & debt - answer✔✔Democrats want:
increased taxes on wealthy
increased government spending to stimulate economy
Republicans want:
low taxes
cut government spending

, ©THEBRIGHT EXAM STUDY SOLUTIONS 8/22/2024 12:54 PM

Sequestration - answer✔✔the action of taking legal possession of assets until a debt has been
paid or other claims have been met. Related to fiscal cliff

Fiscal Cliff - answer✔✔At the end of 2012, income taxes set to rise, payroll tax relief ending and
estate taxes go up.


So a deal was set into place...
Bush extends tax cuts for all except >$400k, estate tax relief extended, and the "sequestration"
federal spending, or across the board, automatic cuts

State of nature - answer✔✔Total freedom
life in a state of nature is nasty, brutish, and short

Social Contract theory - answer✔✔idea that members of a society engage in a metaphorical
contract that you will agree to be governed.


to protect us from each other

Maintaining Order - answer✔✔government needs to stop/ punish internal crime
Capacity to power check

Public Goods - answer✔✔government needs to provide these or else non-payers will free ride
when public goods are produced privately
Public services are essential services individuals cannot provide for themselves

Resolving conflicts - answer✔✔governments decide how conflicts will be resolved with the use
of power (ability to influence behavior of others) and authority (can exercise if power is
legitimate).

Monarchy - answer✔✔one person has all the power

Dictator - answer✔✔person with all of the power whose power is not supported by tradition

Divine right theory - answer✔✔the theory that a monarch's right to rule was derived directly
from God rather than the consent of the people

Direct Democracy - answer✔✔a system of government in which political decisions are made by
the people themselves

Representative Democracy - answer✔✔a form of democracy in which the will of the majority is
expressed through groups of individuals elected by the people

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