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Question 1

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How does Gilley define legitimacy? (pick 4)
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  • The voluntary submission to power systems in whose validity the subject behaves
  • Might and right
  • Elusive as important
  • Requires popularity, consent, and democracy
  • Type of political support grounded in common good of shared moral evaluation
  • Concerns the right to rule
  • Involves the effective exercise of political power

Question 2

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What are the four legitimacy mandates?
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  • Consociationalism/consensus model, Majority mandate model, Median mandate model, and Working mandate model
  • Consociationalism/consensus model, Median mandate model, Working mandate model, and Mixed mandate model
  • Working mandate model, Mixed mandate model, Plurality mandate model, and Proportional mandate model
  • Majority mandate model, Mixed mandate model, Plurality mandate model, and Proportional mandate model

Question 3

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What are the six essential components of free and fair elections in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
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  • Transparent elections
  • Encouragement of full citizen participation
  • Parties that operate freely
  • Independent media
  • The possibility of defeating the incumbent
  • Impartial and independent judicial system
  • Proportional representation

Question 4

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Social capital refers to social organisation (networks, norms, social trust) which facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.
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  • True
  • False

Question 5

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How does identity politics fit into the culture and rational choice theory?
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  • The belief about the world and the belief about a desire produces action.
  • Desire and beliefs produce action.
  • People will choose the most rational choice, regardless if it goes against their political interests.
  • Desire is a constant product of nature.

Question 6

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What are the criticisms of identity politics? (pick 5)
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  • Essentialism
  • Overly sensitive
  • Creates disunity
  • Diverts attention from core locations of oppression
  • Petty version of nationalism
  • Doesn't achieve goals quick enough
  • Eliminates false consciousness
  • Demands restitution for historial wrongs

Question 7

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What are the purposes of political parties?
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  • Political recruitment
  • Interest representation
  • Polarising society
  • Maintaining consistency
  • Allowing more political choice

Question 8

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What are the two types of welfare states?
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  • Residual welfare state and Institutional welfare state
  • Residual welfare state and Liberal welfare state
  • Institutional welfare state and Social Democratic welfare state
  • Liberal welfare state and Social Democratic welfare state
  • State Provisions welfare state and Private Provisions welfare state

Question 9

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What are the three types of civic culture discussed in the lectures?
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  • Parochial culture
  • Subject culture
  • Participant culture
  • Parent culture
  • Political culture

Question 10

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Which 'Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism' is stigma attached to?
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  • Liberal
  • Conservative
  • Social Democractic

Question 11

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What does the Esping-Andersen model look at?
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  • De-commodification, stratification, and the three types of welfare states
  • The economy, electoral system, and social expediture
  • Social democracies, proportional representation, and commodification
  • Commodification, capitalism, and conservatives
  • Commodification, social order, and the three types of welfare states

Question 12

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What is welfare? (pick all that apply)
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  • Support for the unemployed, elderly, ill, disabled, parents, and veterans.
  • State provisions
  • Private provisions
  • Different meanings in different national contexts
  • Neo-liberal policy

Question 13

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What is the civil law code?
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  • Laws concerning private property rights and family law
  • Set of laws governing marriage, divorce, inheritance, and children
  • Country's political system's way of shaping, promoting, checking and absorbing challenges from civil society
  • Establishes the organs of government, basic powers, and limits governmental procedures

Question 14

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What is Duverger's law?
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  • Plurality rule elections structured within single member districts tend to favour a two-party system
  • People will naturally try to attempt to free-ride the system, benefiting from other peoples' efforts without contributing to collective mobilisation
  • Politicians are self interested and will act corrupt in a system without checks and balances
  • Countries experiencing economic growth and cultural change will become more democratic

Question 15

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What is the European Council responsible for?
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  • Making crucial decisions
  • Defines the direction the EU takes
  • Controls foreign policy and security polcies
  • Convincing smaller states of their pre-decided decisions
  • Deals with the budget and expenditures
  • Represents the populations of member states

Question 16

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What are the responsibilities of the European Commission?
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  • Manages the budget and expenditures
  • Political supervision
  • Legislation
  • Controls foreign and security policies
  • Promoting national interest

Question 17

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What characterises thin legitimacy?
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  • Normative legitimacy
  • Based on input, common values, norms, and ideology
  • Instrumental, rational legitimacy
  • Based on output and performance

Question 18

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How does social media positively impact political change?
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  • More accessible information available
  • Enhances citizen participation
  • Decline of party membership
  • Rise of 'anti-social' media
  • Participation in politics from home

Question 19

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What are the three sources of legitimacy as described by Weber?
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  • Rational-legal
  • Traditional
  • Charismatic
  • Justifications
  • Consent

Question 20

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What are the four theoretical approaches to European Integration?
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  • Supranationalism, Neo-functionalism, Inter-governmentalism, and Multilevel governance
  • Neo-liberalism, Multilevel governance, Federalism, and Supranationalism
  • Unitarism, Neo-liberalism, Functionalism, and Inter-governmentalism
  • Neo-functionalism, Federalism, Inter-governmentalism, and Neo-liberalism

Question 21

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Putnam's thesis is that...
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  • The reduction of civic engagement and growing distrust is a result of the decline in social capital and social interactions
  • Low economic growth means capital returns on capital will outstrip other returns
  • Women are more likely to vote more conservative than men, due to religiosity, different labour force participation, and social roles
  • As societies become more democratic and liberal, more women are more likely to vote liberal than men

Question 22

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How does mixed member majoritarian (MMM) differ from Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)?
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  • In MMP, seats are first filled by electorate winners and then the list, while in MMM, district and list seats are separate
  • In MMP, district and list seats are distributed proportionally, while in MMM, they are distributed equally and together
  • MMM can result in zombie politicians, while MMP prevents this
  • In MMP, parties are given a number of seats based on the proportion of votes, while in MMM, they are single seat districts

Question 23

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What characterises the modern approach to party formation?
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  • No party membership, single issue and third parties
  • Formed within legislative, top-down
  • Formed outside of legislative, support from civil societies
  • Formed within legislative from support from civil societies

Question 24

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Gerrymandering is...
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  • is the manipulation of district boundaries to capture the votes in favour political appointees
  • when one benefits from other people's efforts without contributing to collective mobilisation
  • when people go to multiple poling stations to try and influence the outcome of the vote

Question 25

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To what is ultranationalist identity politics a reaction to?
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  • Conservation as an ideology of loss and unification in the fear of the other
  • Conservation of national economy and fear of Americanisation
  • Fear of rising unemployment and an increased influx of migration
  • Fear of loss of tradition and shift towards neo-liberalist policies

Question 26

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Commodification and capitalism is a modern phenomenon and a product of political choice.
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  • True
  • False

Question 27

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Which is not a criticism of Almond and Verba's take on civic culture discussed on the lecture?
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  • Marxism without the criticism
  • Democratic involvement is the domain of the white middle class male
  • No such thing 'national culture'
  • More prescriptive than objective

Question 28

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Legitimacy crisis is...
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  • The perceived inability of an established democracy to overcome problems of social alienation and economic slowdown
  • Most citizens do not see their government as a legitimate institution
  • The elected party in a non-democratic nation has the consent of the citizens, but is not popular
  • Plurality rule elections tend to favour a two-party system

Question 29

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Decisions are made by the Council of Ministers by a plurality system
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  • True
  • False

Question 30

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The European Parliament is the only official political supranational institute.
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  • True
  • False

Question 31

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What are the five characteristics Jacques Delors describes of European integration?
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  • Ever larger and more diverse
  • Increasing scope of policy making
  • More formal process of treaty revision
  • More complex
  • More/less democratic
  • More condensed
  • More fragmented

Question 32

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Instrumental legitimacy concerns nationalism, collectivism, history, and ethnicity
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  • True
  • False

Question 33

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Access to free media will leads to democratisation and more freedoms.
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  • True
  • False

Question 34

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Which is not a recent concern over European integration discussed in the lecture?
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  • Legitimacy deficit
  • Question of political autonomy
  • Responsiveness, Transparency, Accountability,
  • Increase of states active in banking
  • Euroscepticism
  • Exiting of member states
  • Homogenisation and loss of language and culture
  • Problem of identity

Question 35

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Which institutions are part of the institutional triangle council?
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  • European Council
  • European Commission
  • European Parliament
  • Council of Ministers

Question 36

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What are the arguments against political mobilisation through social media and regime change?
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  • Promotes weak ties and slacktivism
  • There is an absence of strategic leadership
  • Distracts from real activism
  • Undermines the essence of pro-democracy struggle
  • Overcrowds debate and public opinion
  • Too much access to false information

Question 37

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When a voter ranks candidates based on the order in which they appear on the ballot is called a zombie vote
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  • True
  • False

Question 38

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In order to win a seat in a First Past the Post system, a candidate must get more than half the votes.
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  • True
  • False
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