PSCI 1100 A Exam Questions With Correct
Answers.
What is a state? - answer1. system of govt that govern a population/territory
2. makes binding decisions & has public sectors
3. exercises a monopoly of force that is internal/externally recognized without outside
interference
4. legitmacy of p...
What is a state? - answer✔✔1. system of govt that govern a population/territory
2. makes binding decisions & has public sectors
3. exercises a monopoly of force that is internal/externally recognized without outside
interference
4. legitmacy of powerholders is recognized internally/externally
What is a normative theory - answer✔✔concepts that explain politics as they should be on the
basis of normative life
Thomas Hobbes - answer✔✔state is needed to secure protection, trust, and order
social contract = surrender rights to govt in exchange for protection + order
Levithan
Communitarian Anarchy - answer✔✔power given to small communities in exchange for
cooperation , trust, and security
no govt foundation
Market Anarchy - answer✔✔security is provided by private entreprises in exchange for payment
What is empirical theory - answer✔✔concept of understanding politics as it is and how it
became to be (cause + effect)
Tilly - answer✔✔"War made the state and the state made war"
war --> extraction --> state --> protection
state building process of Canada - answer✔✔1. early encounter (coexistence of Indigenous +
settlers)
2. fall of new france (British domination + BNA Act)
3. post confederation (Indian Act, assimilation + dispossession of Indigenous)
Indian Act (1876) - answer✔✔--act of the Canadian govt to reduce Indigenous status, land rights
+ sovereignty
--women were denied status
reserve systems
--Band council
Internal state building processes in Canada: - answer✔✔1. terriotorial structuring
2. Indian Act
3. Education
4. Law and Order
5. Transportation & Communication
6. Economic policy
7. Welfare state
External state building processes in Canada - answer✔✔1. 1864: Charlottetown Accord +
Quebec conferenes
2. 1867: BNA act = domination of British
3. 1931: Westminster statue abolish British power
4. 1949: SCC is highest court
5. 1982: constitution act of Canada
Canada got independence through winning wars that gained it external + internal resepct
significance of indigenous Treaties - answer✔✔1. used to legitmize settler presence
2. form of relationship
3. shows that Canada is multilawed
democratic ideas of englightenment - answer✔✔1. not traditional/divine rule
2. popular soveriengty
3. social contracts for equality + rationality
4. limits on power
John Locke on Democracy - answer✔✔1. state of nature:
---natural rights peaceful + free
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