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Intro To Political Science Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Politics - correct answers the process by which a community selects rulers and empowers them to make
decisions, takes action to attain common goals, and reconciles conflicts within the community
Power - correct answers the capacity to influence or control the behavior of persons and institutions, whether
by persuasion or coercion
Authority - correct answers command of the obedience of society's members by a government
Legitimacy - correct answers the exercise of political power in a community in a way that is voluntarily
accepted by the members of that community
Legitimate Authority - correct answers the legal and moral right of a government to rule over a specific
population and control a specific territory
Order - correct answers in a political context, refers to an existing or desired arrangement of institutions based
on certain principles such as liberty, equality, prosperity, and security
Society - correct answers an aggregation of individuals who share a common identity
Social Contract - correct answers a concept in political theory most often associated with Hobbes, Rousseau,
and Locke, the social contract is an implicit agreement among individuals to form a civil society and accept
certain moral and political obligations essential to its preservation
Government - correct answers the persons and institutions that make and enforce laws and rules for the
larger community
,Republic - correct answers a form of government in which sovereignty resides in the people of that country,
rather than with the rulers; vast majority of republics today are democratic or representative republics,
meaning that sovereign power is exercised by elected representatives who are responsible to the citizenry
State - correct answers in its sovereign form, an independent political-administrative unit that successfully
claims the allegiance of a given population, exercises a monopoly on the legitimate use of coercive force, and
controls the territory inhabited by its citizens or subjects; in its other common form, a state is the major
political-administrative subdivision of a federal system
Sovereignty - correct answers a government's capacity to assert supreme power successfully in a political state
Country - correct answers as a political term, it refers loosely to a sovereign state and is roughly equivalent to
"nation" or "nation-state"
Nation - correct answers often interchangeable with state or country; in common usage, this term actually
denotes a specific people with a distinct language and culture or a major ethnic group
Nation-State - correct answers a geographically defined community administered by a government
Stateless Nation - correct answers people (or nations) who are scattered over the territory of several states or
dispersed widely and who have no autonomous, independent, or sovereign governing body of their own;
examples include the Kurds, Palestinians, and Tibetans
Justice - correct answers fairness; the distribution of rewards and burdens in society in accordance with what
is deserved
Nation-Building - correct answers the process of forming a common identity based on the notion of belonging
to a political community separate and distinct from all others; often the concept of "nation" is based on
common ethnolinguistic roots
Political Literacy - correct answers the ability to think and speak intelligently about politics
, Methodology - correct answers the way scientists and scholars set about exploring, explaining, proving, or
disproving propositions in different academic disciplines; the precise methods vary according to the discipline
and the object, event, process, or phenomenon under investigation
Positivism - correct answers a philosophy of science that stresses observable, scientific facts as the sole basis
of proof and truth; a skeptical view of ideas or beliefs based on religion or metaphysics
Behaviorism - correct answers an approach to the study of politics that emphasizes fact-based evaluations of
action
Normativism - correct answers an approach to the study of politics that emphasizes the key role of intentional
human behavior based on values, principles, and reason as opposed to instincts, impulses, and deterministic
forces- "ought" versus "is"; normative theory focuses on fundamental and enduring questions
Rational Choice - correct answers the role of reason over emotion in human behavior; political behavior, in
this view, follows logical and even predictable patterns so long as we understand the key role of self-interest
Political Realism - correct answers the philosophy that power is the key variable in all political relationships
and should be used pragmatically and prudently to advance the national interest; policies are judged good or
bad on the basis of their effect on national interests, not on their level of morality
Political Culture - correct answers the moral values, beliefs, and myths by which people live and for which they
are willing to die
Public Good - correct answers the shared beliefs of a political community as to what goals government ought
to attain
Ideology - correct answers any set of fixed, predictable ideas held by politicians and citizens on how to serve
the public good
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