1 Week T/F

Question 1

The two questions that motivate the discovery of order in the chaos of politics are “What do we observe?” and “Why?”

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A government may be as simple as a tribal council.

Answer 2

true

Question 3

A tribal council that meets occasionally to advise the chief has all the essential elements of a government.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

If a country has all political authority vested in a single individual, then it has a totalitarian government.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

When large numbers of people have some influence over government decision-making, the government is said to be constitutional.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

When a small group of individuals controls most of the governing decisions, a government is said to be an oligarchy.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Governments that are generally unrestrained by law but have leaders that are kept in check by other political or social institutions are called authoritarian governments.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Nazi Germany was an example of a totalitarian regime.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The term politics is defined as the decisions reached by democratic processes.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

The conflicts and struggles over the leadership, structure, and policies of government are called politics.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

All political behavior has a purpose.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Few citizens have political goals, and fewer still work to achieve those goals.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

Some political acts take great effort, time, and financial resources.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Legislators typically make their decisions with forethought and calculation.

Answer 14

true

Question 15

Elected officials are motivated by reelection, but political actors who are not elected do not have identifiable motivations.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

Political institutions help government function, while relieving communities have to reinvent collective action each time it is required.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

The Speaker of the House is free to send a newly introduced bill to any committee he or she likes.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

The more a large organization values participation by the broadest range of its members, the less it actually needs rules for making decisions.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

In the U.S. Senate, a simple majority can end debate and call for a vote.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

In the U.S. Senate, 60 votes (out of 100) are required to shut off debate on most legislation.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

The control over what a group will consider for discussion is called agenda power.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Another term for agenda power is veto power

Answer 22

False

Question 23

Through the agenda power, the president can prevent Congress from taking up a particular bill.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

The ability to defeat something even if it has made it onto the agenda of an institution is called veto power.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Because the agent’s preferences sometimes differ from those of the principal, usually the principal entirely eliminates the agent’s prospective deviations by spelling out the agent’s actions in a detailed contract.

Answer 25

False

Answer 26

False

Question 27

During the lead-up to the American Revolution, the New England merchants who cried “no taxation without representation” cared more about expanded representation in the British Parliament than about lower taxes.