Weber’s ideal type of bureaucracy has all of the following features except?

1. Weber’s 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