PSCI 1100 EXAM REVIEW Questions With Correct Answers.
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Module
PSCI 1100
Institution
PSCI 1100
PSCI 1100 EXAM REVIEW Questions
With Correct Answers.
What is a State? - answera system of government instituions
defined territory and population
makes and enforces binding decisions
provides certain goods and services
exercises a monopoly of force within its territory
regulates affairs wit...
Emergence of The State: Functional Theory - answer✔✔State emerges because it is best at
enabling political and economic development
Thomas Hobbes - answer✔✔We need the state to ensure security and interpersonal trust
a state of nature is a "war against all"
To escape the war against all, people make an agreement amongst themselves to create a state,
surrender all their rights to the ruler in exchange for order
State is justified by its results (security and interpersonal trust). Ruler can do whatever they want
as long as they maintain these results
Charles Tilly - answer✔✔To fight rival power holders (war making) rulers need money from
their subjects (extraction)
To secure these finances they set up state structures (state making), also used to secure the
loyalty of the elite (protection)
"War made the state and the state made war"
Political Obligation: - answer✔✔What (if anything) establishes a normative obligation for
people to obey the law
Political Obligation: Consent - answer✔✔People have explicitly or implicitly consented to being
a member of the state
Political Obligation: Fairness - answer✔✔People who benefit from the state must also contribute
to the continuation of its operations
Political Obligation: Participation - answer✔✔People who can take part in self government must
also respect its results
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - answer✔✔State of Nature: Peaceful but innocent, people lacking the
ability to improve their lives by themselves
Social Contract: people make their agreement to relinquish their rights and power to the
community, expressing a "general will"
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