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In Weber's typology of authority, which of the following refers to authority legitimated by people's ideas of the sacred? |
Traditional authority |
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In Weber's typology of authority, which of the following refers to authority legitimated by the extraordinary personal qualities of an individual? |
Charismatic authority |
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Which of the following U. S. Presidents campaigned by making most of his speeches from a special car at the back of a train? |
Harry Truman |
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Upon leaving office, President Eisenhower warned the American public of the emergence of a "military-industrial complex." By this he meant that ________. |
suppliers of military equipment were gaining undue influence over other institutions |
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Which of the following maintains that political decisions are controlled by rich and powerful individuals even in societies with democratic institutions? |
The power elite model |
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Which of the following states that no single group controls political decisions but instead a variety of interest groups influence those decisions through a process of coalition building and bargaining? |
The pluralist model |
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In his analysis of the community power structure of Atlanta, Georgia, Floyd Hunter concluded that ________. |
no more than 40 powerful men have the ability to make decisions on important issues |
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Studies that attempt to identify a hidden power structure have been criticized on the grounds that ________. |
they base their conclusions on interviews not observation |
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In his analysis of the power structure of New Haven, Connecticut, Robert Dahl concluded that ________. |
no single group was responsible for all of the decisions that might affect the city's future. |
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George Orwell, in his essay Politics and the English Language, pointed out that ________. |
political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable |
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Which group has used terrorist tactics in Northern Ireland to try to throw question on the legitimacy of the existing government there? |
the "IRA" |
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What famous book was written with the central theme that a government might subject its citizens to behavior modification techniques to socialize them in a manner to support government at all costs and therefore always avoid revolution? |
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World |
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Whose writings are very supportive of conservative political thought? |
Thomas Hobbes |
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Whose writings were intended to support the idea that all citizens of any nation have a set of "natural rights" and the job of government should be to protect and promote these? |
John Locke |
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The presence of the military in a democratic society may ________. |
Both be a clear threat to democracy. help to protect democratic institutions. |
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Which nation(s) are good examples of countries that rely on "citizen soldiers?" |
Both Israel Switzerland |
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Who first warned of the danger to U. S. democracy from the rise of a "military-industrial complex?" |
President Dwight Eisenhower |
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The same circumstances that promote terrorism are often associated with a non-violent resistance movement (such as the one headed by Gandhi in India). |
True |
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C. Wright Mills was one of the first scholars to propose that nations are run by a tight-knit group that is termed as "the power elite." |
True |
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The Moral Majority social movement of the 1980s, headed by the Reverend Jerry Falwell, makes a good example of the concept of a "proto-movement." |
True |
