Online Quiz #1

Question 1

Autonomy can be defined as the ability of the state to:

Answer 1

wield power independent of the public or international actors

Question 2

Which of the following is most likely a reason for the emergence of the modern state in Europe rather than in another region?

Answer 2

a widespread collapse of law and civilization and the rise of a form of organized crime

Question 3

Politics is defined in the text as the:

Answer 3

struggle in any group for the power to make decisions for the larger group.

Question 4

Thomas Hobbes believed that people gave up their rights to the coercive power of the state in order to:

Answer 4

escape anarchy.

Question 5

In which of the following ways does quantitative research differ from qualitative research?

Answer 5

It favors a wider use of cases not restricted by area specialization.

Question 6

Which of the following can be said about the concept of a regime?

Answer 6

The differences between regimes are most likely to be unwritten and informal, though they can appear in written constitutions.

Question 7

Critics of the behavioral revolution accused it of which of the following?

Answer 7

It had come to emphasize methodology over knowledge.

Question 8

Political scientists, based on the work of Max Weber, define the state as:

Answer 8

an organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a territory.

Question 9

In which of the following ways did behavioralism differ from modernization theory?

Answer 9

It was more of a method than a general hypothesis.

Question 10

Which of the following lists Max Weber’s three forms of political legitimacy?

Answer 10

traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal

Question 11

In which of the following ways can multi causality affect comparative politics research?

Answer 11

It complicates the comparative method and makes it more difficult to develop concrete explanations about real-world phenomena.

Question 12

Which of the following statements about the development and spread of the modern state is accurate?

Answer 12

Many states were able to use ethnicity as a nationalizing force even as people began to define themselves less through characteristics like religion or town of residence.

Question 13

The substance of politics is inevitably bound up in the struggle between:

Answer 13

individual freedom and collective equality.

Question 14

To a comparativist, which would be of more value: discovery of a correlation or discovery of a causal relationship and why?

Answer 14

causal relationship, because it describes a more concrete, specific relationship between two variables

Question 15

Sovereignty is defined as the ability of:

Answer 15

states to carry out actions or policies within a territory independent of external actors or internal rivals.

Question 16

Modern states are built primarily on what form of legitimacy?

Answer 16

rational-legal

Question 17

The United States is a good example of a state with:

Answer 17

high capacity but low autonomy.

Question 18

Which of the following forms of research or data would more likely be used by a quantitative research study than by a qualitative research study?

Answer 18

economic data

Question 19

What is inductive reasoning?

Answer 19

the means by which we go from studying a case to generating a hypothesis

Question 20

A greater focus on individual freedom is most likely to require:

Answer 20

a smaller state.

Question 21

Which of the following is true of the work of most comparativists?

Answer 21

When they expand study outside of a single country, they tend to limit their focus to a single geographic region.

Question 22

What is deductive reasoning?

Answer 22

the means by which we go from a hypothesis to studying evidence

Question 23

In which of the following ways does a government built primarily on charismatic legitimacy differ from one based on traditional legitimacy?

Answer 23

Charismatic legitimacy would likely be much shorter-lived.

Question 24

One big rift within the study of comparative politics is:

Answer 24

quantitative versus qualitative research.

Question 25

An institution can be defined as any:

Answer 25

organization or activity that is self-perpetuating and valued for its own sake.