Class Notes Week 1

Question 1

Does this description better fit the Analytical side of Political Science or its Normative side?
- How is power exercised
Identify regular patterns of behavior & outcomes
Past events, current events
Future events?

Answer 1

Analytical

Question 2

Does this description better fit the Analytical side of Political Science or its Normative side?
- Which is the best way to order society?
Which is the best way to exercise powers?

Answer 2

Normative

Question 3

Which description fits Political Theory the best?

a) Domestic Politics
Developed World

b) Political Philosophy
Focused on normative questions

c)Interstate Relations
Transnational Politics

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The following definition is for what term?
The exercise of power, who has it and who doesn’t. Formal and informal, how we interact with each other (Gender, race, etc.). How families operate.

a) Politics
b) Elections
c) Democracy

Answer 4

A) Politics

Question 5

Who said “who gets power and how”?
a) Samuel Huntington
b) John Locke
c) Harold Laswell
d) John Smith

Answer 5

C) Harold Laswell

Question 6

Which description fits “power over” and which one describes “power to”
a) Implement policies & Influence decision making.
b) Control & Power as an end in itself

Answer 6

A) Power to
B) Power over

Question 7

How do you measure Power?

Answer 7

You can’t, it’s a circular argument.

Question 8

Who said “Power Through Ideas”?
a) Foucault
b) Hobbes
c) Locke
d) Gramsci
e) Webber

Answer 8

A) Foucault

Question 9

Who introduced the concept of Cultural Hegemony?
a) Foucault
b) Hobbes
c) Locke
d) Gramsci
e) Webber

Answer 9

D) Gramsci

Question 10

Who came up with the concept of “legitimate authority”?
a) Foucault
b) Hobbes
c) Locke
d) Gramsci
e) Webber

Answer 10

E) Webber

Question 11

Which definition fits which type of leader?
Types: Traditional, Charismatic, Legal-Rational.
a) Revolutionary leaders
Mao (China), Khomeini (Iran): Leaders of revolution that then stayed in power.
Somebody has authority because of their personality. It can be religious, physical, or mental. It makes it inherently right for them to be in charge.
Populism. Someone who stands out and knows how to talk to people, but can also be quiet, and among the elites instead of the masses.
IE: Trump. People don’t support them because of political views, they just like him as a person.

b) Kinship networks: Large extended families who are connected through marriage.
Middle-east, developing world.

c) Rule of law, institutions and offices
The modern state. Power is not vested in a single individual or family, but in the system.
The authority is in the Office, not in the person who holds it.
Criticism: Euro-Centric, Over-lapping, nepotism, the divisions are messy sometimes, he was biased to the Legal-Rational system.

Answer 11

A) Charismatic
B) Traditional
C) Legal-Rational