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Multiple choice spørgsmål Flashcards

1
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A legislature does not function as…

A) A linkage between the government and the citizens.
B) Representation of the citizens interests.
C) The government.
D) A parliament or a congress.

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A legislature does not function as…

C) The government.

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Presidentialism is not characterized by…

A) The parliament can remove the president.
B) The citizens choses the president and the parliament separately.
C) The president does not have to account for the parliament.
D) The president is head of state.

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Presidentialism is not characterized by…

A) The parliament can remove the president.

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Which of the following is not connected to a bicameral system?

A) One chamber can have significantly greater power than another.
B) An upper chamber that represents a specific group and a lower chamber that represents the people as a hole.
C) The two chambers has equally shared powers.
D) The power of the legislatures are contained in one chamber.

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Which of the following is not connected to a bicameral system?

D) The power of the legislatures are contained in one chamber.

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Which of these may be a consequence of a single-party minority government?

A) Compromises are necessary.
B) Political decisions are easier to make.
C) The government has the absolute power.
D) The decision-making-proces is more efficient.

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Which of these may be a consequence of a single-party minority government?

A) Compromises are necessary.

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An argument for parliamentarism is…

A) Better checks and balances between legislature and executive branch.
B) Lower risk of stalemate
C) More powerful executive than in separation of powers.
D) Possibility of a divided government.

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An argument for parliamentarism is…

B) Lower risk of stalemate.

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Multi-member constituencies are associated with…

A) Majoritarian systems.
B) Two-party systems.
C) High degree of proportionality.
D) Referendums.

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Multi-member constituencies are associated with…

C) High degree of proportionality.

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Electoral thresholds make the seat distribution in the legislature…

A) More predictable.
B) Less stable.
C) More proportional.
D) Less proportional.

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Electoral thresholds make the seat distribution in the legislature…

D) Less proportional.

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Which of the following statements is not consistent with a majoritarian system?

A) Winner takes it all.
B) There is only one seat to be distributed.
C) Several seats to be distributed and the distribution depends on the percentage-wise distribution of votes.
D) May be formulated as a two-round system.

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Which of the following statements is not consistent with a majoritarian system?

C) Several seats to be distributed and the distribution depends on the percentage-wise distribution of votes.

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Duvergers law states that…

A) There is a connection between a majoritarian system and a two-party system.
B) There is no connection between a proportional representation system and a multiparty system.
C) There are no causality between magnitude of constituency and party system.
D) There is a connection between a majoritarian system and a multi-party system.

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Duvergers law states that…

A) There is a connection between a majoritarian system and a two-party system.

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About the origins of the electoral systems it can for sure not be concluded that…

A) They origined on the basis of the socialist threat in the countries where this threat was relevant.
B) The socialist threat resulted in PR systems in all countries where it was relevant.
C) The SMP system and the PR system were equally relevant as safeguards for the socialist threat.
D) The choice of magnitude of constituency was not only based on the socialist threat.

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About the origins of the electoral systems it can for sure not be concluded that…

B) The socialist threat resulted in PR systems in all countries where it was relevant.

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Which of the following characterizes comparative politics?

A) Wish to answer normative questions.
B) Wish to investigate how states interact with each other.
C) Wish to investigate differences between political systems.
D) Wish to investigate differences and similarities between political systems.

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Which of the following characterizes comparative politics?

D) Wish to investigate differences and similarities between political systems.

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Which of the following is not a key element defining a nation state?

A) The state has a monopoly of violence.
B) The state has sovereignty.
C) The state has a political ideology.
D) The state has a people to rule.

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Which of the following is not a key element defining a nation state?

C) The state has a political ideology.

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Regarding which of the following characteristics of a state does the globalization not have an influence?

A) The sovereignty.
B) The economy.
C) The territory.
D) The nationhood.

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Regarding which of the following characteristics of a state does the globalization not have an influence?

C) The territory.

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Which of the “personal regimes” is thought of as the most stable over and through time?

A) Ruling monarch.
B) Reigning monarch.
C) Personal monarch/dictator.
D) Populist presidential monarch.

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Which of the “personal regimes” is thought of as the most stable over and through time?

A) Ruling monarch.

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A silent revolution is according to Inglehart defined as?

A) A revolution that surprises the ruling government.
B) A revolution without violence because established institutions create an easier passing to democracy.
C) None of the survival needs are met and thus it is easier to create a passing to democracy without violence.
D) A revolution that silently spreads across territories.

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A silent revolution is according to Inglehart defined as?

B) A revolution without violence because established institutions create an easier passing to democracy.

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Which five elements are comparative politics interested in investigating?

A) Interests, institutions, international relations, individuals and ideas.
B) International environment, individuals, interests, ideologies and institutions.
C) Institutions, interests, ideas, individuals and international environment.
D) Interests, institutions, international relations, individuals and ideologies.

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Which five elements are comparative politics interested in investigating?

C) Institutions, interests, ideas, individuals and international environment.

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Which of the following characterize a policy?

A) The structure of a political system.
B) The outcome of a political system.
C) The input to a political system.
D) The interaction between political actors who wish to have influence on the political outcome.

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Which of the following characterize a policy?

B) The outcome of a political system.

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Tripartite pacts are typical in…

A) Corporatism.
B) Neo-corporatism.
C) Pluralism.
D) Unitarism.

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Tripartite pacts are typical in…

B) Neo-corporatism.

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What is the main characteristic of deconcentration?

A) Transfer of some administrative functions.
B) Transfer of administrative behaviour and policymaking.
C) Transfer of political and administrative functions.
D) Transfer of autonomy given by the constitutional level.

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What is the main characteristic of deconcentration?

A) Transfer of some administrative functions.

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Which type of the legislature enjoys the highest degree of autonomy?

A) Bureaucracy.
B) The government.
C) Parliament.
D) Congress.

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Which type of the legislature enjoys the highest degree of autonomy?

D) Congress.

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Regionalism is characterized by…

A) A top-down process based on state-interest.
B) De-concentration of administrative decision-making to the regional level.
C) A bottom-up process based on regional interests.
D) Decentralization of political decision-making to the regional level.

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Regionalism is characterized by…

C) A bottom-up process based on regional interests.

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Fused-power systems are not characterized by…

A) Legislatures enjoying low degree of autonomy.
B) Parliamentarism.
C) Executives can dissolve the legislatures.
D) Executives enjoying high degree of autonomy.

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Fused-power systems are not characterized by…

D) Executives enjoying high degree of autonomy.

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Which of the following statements is correct?

A) The Ghent-system increases the power of labor unions.
B) Labor unions has traditionally supported right-wing parties.
C) The Ghent-system reduces labor union density.
D) Employers organizations only seeks influence through legislatures.

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Which of the following statements is correct?

A) The Ghent-system increases the power of labor unions.

24
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Which revolution led to the formation of the rural-urban cleavage?

A) The national revolution.
B) The russian revolution.
C) The industrial revolution.
D) The post-industrial revolution.

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Which revolution led to the formation of the rural-urban cleavage?

C) The industrial revolution.

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The key characteristics in competitive oligarchies is…

A) Low liberalization and low inclusiveness.
B) High liberalization and low inclusiveness.
C) Low liberalization and high inclusiveness.
D) High liberalization and high inclusiveness.

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The key characteristics competitive oligarchies is…

B) High liberalization and low inclusiveness.

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Which type of issue voting implies voting for a party based on a prospective evaluation of position issues?

A) Performance evaluations.
B) Policy appraisal.
C) Policy mandate.
D) Anticipatory judgments.

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Which type of issue voting implies voting for a party based on a prospective evaluation of position issues?

C) Policy mandate.

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Which of the following assumptions does not correctly characterize the concept of increasing returns?

A) Previous events have strong influence on future equilibrium.
B) The probability of further steps along the same path increases with each move down that particular path.
C) The costs of exit, or switching to some previously plausible alternative, will not rise.
D) It is costly to change the political course.

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Which of the following assumptions does not correctly characterize the concept of increasing returns?

C) The costs of exit, or switching to some previously plausible alternative, will not rise.

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Choose the correct statement concerning policy-models…

A) The institutional model assumes that policy-makers produce rational policy.
B) The rational model assumes that policy-making is an easy technical process.
C) The incremental model assumes that policy-makes are bounded rationally.
D) The group model assumes that elite agents will always be policy-makers.

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Choose the correct statement concerning policy-models…

C) The incremental model assumes that policy-makes are bounded rationally.

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Which of the welfare state regimes is characterized by low decommodification and needs-based social rights?

A) The Continental Conservative regime.
B) The Southern European regime.
C) The Anglo-Saxon Liberal regime.
D) The Scandinavian Social Democratic regime.

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Which of the welfare state regimes is characterized by low decommodification and needs-based social rights?

C) The Anglo-Saxon Liberal regime.

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The main idea of the comparative method is…

A) Analysing as many different cases as possible.
B) Combining different methods.
C) Comparing different time points.
D) Eliminating context variables as explanations.

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The main idea of the comparative method is…

D) Eliminating context variables as explanations.

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Which of the following statements is correct?

A) Cleavages mainly refer to socio-structural divisions in society.
B) Cleavages have a socio-structural, cultural or organisational dimension.
C) Cleavages by definition have a socio-structural, cultural and organisational dimension.
D) Cleavages can have a socio-structural, cultural and organisational dimension.

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Which of the following statements is correct?

C) Cleavages by definition have a socio-structural, cultural and organisational dimension.

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What does the evolution interpretation say with regard to non-democratic regimes?

A) Non-democracies will vanish in the long run.
B) Non-democracies will become authoritarian.
C) Non-democracies can survive through adaptation.
D) Non-democracies evolve into democracies.

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What does the evolution interpretation say with regard to non-democratic regimes?

C) Non-democracies can survive through adaptation.

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Which type of legislature enjoys the lowest degree of autonomy in the legislative process?

A) Parliament.
B) Coalition government.
C) The lower chamber.
D) Congress.

A

Which type of legislature enjoys the lowest degree of autonomy in the legislative process?

A) Parliament.

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Which of the following characteristics is typical for parliamentary systems?

A) The executive is unified.
B) The executive cannot be removed by the legislature.
C) Executive branch and legislature are selected independently.
D) Mutual dependence between executive and legislature.

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Which of the following characteristics is typical for parliamentary systems?

D) Mutual dependence between executive and legislature.

35
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Which of the following is not a typical reason for federal state structures…

A) A multi-national population.
B) A large territory.
C) Lacking territoriality.
D) The historical absence of a centralised monarchy.

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Which of the following is not a typical reason for federal state structures…

C) Lacking territoriality.

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Which statement is correct?

A) Party leadership is typically more policy seeking than party activists.
B) Party activists are typically more policy seeking than party leadership.
C) Party leadership and party activists are typically equally policy seeking.
D) In left parties, party leadership is typically more policy seeking than party activists.

A

Which statement is correct?

B) Party activists are typically more policy seeking than party leadership.

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What is the main explanatory factor within the institutionalist approach in comparative politics?

A) Rules constraining the behaviour of political actors.
B) The interests of individual political actors.
C) Ideas and ideologies of different political actors.
D) The international environment constraining domestic political actors.

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What is the main explanatory factor within the institutionalist approach in comparative politics?

A) Rules constraining the behaviour of political actors.

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From which cleavage did the classical left-right alignment emerge?

A) From the workers-employers cleavage.
B) From the rural-urban cleavage.
C) From the centre-periphery cleavage.
D) From the materialism-post-materialism cleavage.

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From which cleavage did the classical left-right alignment emerge?

A) From the workers-employers cleavage.

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Why was the neo-corporatism of Western Europe less succesful in the new CEE EU member states?

A) Because unions in these countries can offer little for political exchange.
B) Because there are few unions in these countries.
C) Because unions in these countries prefer pluralism.
D) Because the EU discouraged neo-corporatism.

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Why was the neo-corporatism of Western Europe less succesful in the new CEE EU member states?

A) Because unions in these countries can offer little for political exchange.

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