Webers ideal type of bureaucracy has all of the following features except

1
Webers ideal type of bureaucracy has all of the
following features except?

• Hierarchical structure
• Task specialization
• Freedom of action
• Political neutrality
• freedom of action

2
Interest group behavior characterized by a close
relationship between government and key sectors
of the economy and society is?

• Pluralism
• Elitism
• Corporatism
• Socialism
• C

3
Which of the following is not a collective good?

• National parks
• Low-income housing
• Clean air
• Common pastureland
• low-income housing

4
Which of the following is not true of the British
Westminster Model?

• Bicameral parliament
• Independently elected prime minister
• Crown prerogative foreign policy power
• Parliamentary sovereignty
• Independently elected prime minister

5
Which of the following is disadvantage of PR?

• Leads to gerrymandering
• leads to unstable coalitions
• wastes votes
• excludes third parties
• leads to unstable coalitions

6
Which of the following is not true of the German
political system?

• Bicameral parliament
• Independently elected president
• Twin-ballot electoral system
• Federal structure
• independently elected president

7
The SMDP electoral system encourages the
following except?

• Clear political mandates
• lower electoral turnout
• two party systems
• coalition governments
• coalition governments

8
All of the following characterize personalist (or
court) politics except

• Arbitrary rule
• open elite recruitment
• competition to access the leader
• high levels of nepotism
• open elite recruitment

9
All of the following are methods to gain
political legitimacy except?

• Force
• Tradition
• Democracy
• Results
• Force

10
All of the following have formal constitutions
except?

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Iran
• Germany
• United Kingdom

11
Which of the following is an example of a
theocracy?

• Pakistan
• Saudi Arabia
• Iraq
• Iran
• Iran

12
The values and assumptions people hold about
politics in acquired in a process known as

• Political culture
• Political development
• Political socialization
• Political democratization
• Political socialization

13
Which of the following is not a characteristic of
a military regime

• Close working relationship with bureaucracy
• Suppression of civil liberties
• Emphasis on nationalism
• Governmental stability
• governmental stability

14
Most states have a ____ form of government

• Unitary
• Confederation
• Federal
• Communitarian
• unitary

15
The goal to promote economic development through
the protection of domestic industry is known as

• Export led growth
• Import substitution
• World system theory
• Autarchy

16
According to Mancur Olson,

• The smaller the group, the larger the free-rider
  problem
• the larger the group, the larger the free-rider
  problem
• small groups are not as effective as large groups
• interest groups are on the increase
• B

17
Nigeria suffers from regionalism. Which
description fits best?

• Authoritarian system dominated by one region
• Strong ethnic/national identities and weak
  support for the state
• A confederation of regional states
• High economic disparities between regions
• B

18
Regionalism is a result of

• Economic underdevelopment
• socialism
• Interstate conflict
• colonialism
• colonialism

19
According to Modernization literature

• All countries pass through the same stages of
  development
• development has been prevented by colonialism
• underdevelopment is an external problem
• protectionism will foster development
• A

20
According to dependency theory, underdevelopment
is the result of

• The lack of foreign aid
• traditional views of government elites
• too great a governmental role in the economy
• the capitalist class of both the developed and
  undeveloped world
• D

21
Which of the following was not true of the USSR?

• Parliamentary system with regular elections
• Real political power exercised through the
  Communist Political Party
• Federal structure
• Low electoral turnout
• low electoral turnout

22
Which state is not an example of a dominant party
state?

• China
• Mexico
• Japan
• India
• China

23
Communism is

• Rule by a single party
• An economic system governed by a political elite
• State ownership of the means of production
• Public ownership of the means of production
• D

24
Populism is

• Government by the people
• Direct appeal to the masses
• Government control by interest groups
• Politics based on personal ties
• direct appeal to the masses

25
The House of Lords is

• An elected institution
• An appointed institution
• A hereditary institution
• An appointed and elected institution
• An appointed institution

26
Political parties in Europe are in decline
because of?

• Growth of right wing politics
• Postmodern values
• The European Union
• Decline in civic culture
• postmodern values

27
Conservatism is a philosophy based on

• A belief that individuals are more important than
  the society they live in
• opposition to the welfare state
• the limitation of political power
• none of the above
• none of the above

28
Fascism is based on each of the following except

• Nationalism
• Corporatism
• Political elite
• The volk
• political elite

29
In most democracies today we find

• Low levels of support for the state
• High levels of electoral participation
• High levels of political information
• High degree of confidence in officials
• high levels of electoral participation

30
Parliamentary government

• Requires the direct election of a prime minister
  and a parliament
• provides that the cabinet can be ousted by a vote
  of parliament
• generally has strong parliamentary committees
• generally has some device for constitutional
  review
• B