Quiz 3

Question 1

True or False? Hudson’s four models represent actual democracies.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

True or False? The principle of due process is guaranteed by the Fifth and Thirteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

What term describes the concept of a form of government ruled by active citizens rather than elected/appointed officials

Answer 3

Direct democracy

Question 4

Which of the following is an idea inherent in a constitutional democracy?

Answer 4

Government should be responsive, limited, and effective

Question 5

What is essential to the success of any government?

Answer 5

Continuity and stability

Question 6

What term is used to define the winner of an election as the candidate with the most votes?

Answer 6

Plurality

Question 7

Contemporary political scientists often refer to which of the following as the first prominent exponent of a pluralist model of democracy?

Answer 7

John Calhoun

Question 8

Which of the following best describes the theory of federalism?

Answer 8

A division of power between a national government and its regional subdivisions

Question 9

Reserved powers are protected by which Amendment?

Answer 9

Tenth Amendment

Question 10

Which of the following terms best describes the US government today?

Answer 10

Protective democracy

Question 11

What was the legislative body of the United States designed to be?

Answer 11

Bicameral

Question 12

Which of the following best represents the ideas of John Locke?

Answer 12

Meaningful freedom could not exist without written laws.

Question 13

What is meant by Alexis de Tocqueville’s term, “tyranny of the majority?”

Answer 13

When a dominant group uses its control of government to trample the rights of minority groups

Question 14

True or False? All authoritarian regimes use brute force to suppress civil liberties and personal freedoms.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

True or False? Some authoritarian rules care about the common good.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False? The only standard for government legitimacy is the consent of the governed.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Which is not a possible virtue of authoritarian government?

Answer 17

Faster economic growth

Question 18

In the postwar era, what has been the most common way that authoritarian rulers have left office?

Answer 18

Ousted

Question 19

How does the military usually dominate a political system ?

Answer 19

It often rules as an institution

Question 20

How do most authoritarianism regimes come to power?

Answer 20

Sudden coup d’etat

Question 21

What is the main aim of authoritarian states?

Answer 21

Maintaining power

Question 22

What were the Chinese students and workers gathered at Tiananmen Square in 1989 protesting?

Answer 22

Corruption and failure to democratize

Question 23

Why is Iran considered to by an oxymoronic kind of state?

Answer 23

It is a modern theocracy

Question 24

Experts say there are advantages to authoritarian regimes. Among them are

Answer 24

Relative stability

Question 25

U.S. “Dollar Diplomacy” refers to

Answer 25

The use of aid to prop up right-wing dictators