POL214 EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS

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One of the limits of political analysis is

d.it is regulated to carry out analysis that are politically feasible and politically desirable

______ analysis of politics is divided into _______ and _____ reasoning

c.empirical/deductive and inductive

the following are the distinct stages in the policy process except

b.discussion stage

in the words of Pietrzyk-Reeves ( 2016) , if political analysis must be developmental, it would have to be

b.subjectively objective or objectively subjective

The main features of the behavioural approach to political analysis include the following except

b.value-fact monotony

According to Rober Dahl\’s typology of political participation, the following categories are recognized

a.the spectator, the transitional and the gladiatorial participants

b.The Elected and the Selected participation

c.The Apolitical stratum, Political Stratum, the power seekers and the powerful

d.The Politically Relevant Strata and the Elite Strata

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The following are secondary agents of political socialization except

a.family

b.peer groups

c.mass media

d.schools

Who defined politices as who get what when and how?

a.Muler Pitkin

b.Harold Lasswey

c.Plato

d.Abraham Lincoln

The following are the Almond input functions of political systems except

a.interest articulation

b.policy application

c.interest aggregation

d.political socialisation

The following are the features of military government except

a.Highly decentralized in structure

b.Rule by decrees and Edicts

c.Absence of elections

d.Perform both legislative and Executive functions.

Aristotle\’s theory and political analysis was contained in his book titled……..

a.Aristotle\’s Republic and the Laws

b.Aristotle\’s Politics

c.Aristotle\’s role of power and ideology

d.Aristotle\’s theory of justice

The functions of political parties include the following except

a.they represent groups of interests

b.political parties engage in political education

c.they help to develop policies and ensure implementation

d.they are full policy making organizations for government….

The three major types of power include the following except

a.manipulation

b.influence

c.force

d.domination

________ is the tacit or explicit support of the region by its people usually an emotional identifcation with the regime

a.collaboration

b.legality

c.legitimacy

d.co-operation

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The following are the qualities of power except

a.Power exist at both National and international levels

b.power is applied in social relation, as it is primarily exercised over men

c.power has no need for some kind of feedback from the influence to the influencer

d.power has the ability to reward or punish

The following constitutes what makes political analysis political ?

a.the concept of inexorable conflict and its focus on revolution

b.The concept and reality of power, with its focus on problem-slowing

c.its concept on social/political disicipline and its focus on institutional dependency

d.its concept of derivation and its focus on war

According to Aristotle, politics is not only political, it is also ____________ because it is ___________

a.modernized/technical

b.Scientific/practical

c.organized/institutionalized

d.Technical/liberal

The classical philosophers who provided the basis for today\’s concept of political analysis were

a.Gerry Stoker, and Socrates and machiavelli

b.Aristotle, miller and lasswell

c.Plato, Smith and Cornice

d.Plato, Socrates and Aristotle

The difference between influence and power is _________

a.All human power is absolute while influence is relative

b.power has rational attributes while influence does not

c.the exercise of power depends upon potential sanctions while the exercise of influence does not

d.influence has relational attributes while power does not

lysis include the following

d.Normative and empirical

_________ and ________ are among the traditional approaches to political analysis

a.institutional and behavioural

The Founders of the political normative theory and analysis include the following

a.Plato and Aristotle

_________ political analysis emphasized that _____________ and not __________ is the basis for knowledge and analysis

d.emprical/fact/value

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in the words of Pietrzyk-Reeves ( 2016) , if political analysis must be developmental, it would have to be

a.subjectively objective or objectively subjective..

b.subjectively objective

c.subjectively objective and objectively subjective

d.objectively subjective

The main features of the behavioural approach to political analysis include the following except

a.empirical verification

b.value-fact monotony

c.systematization

d.quantification

_________ and ________ are among the traditional approaches to political analysis

a.behavioural and classical

b.normative and institutional

c.institutional and behavioural

d.empirical and classical

The following are true about concept and term except

a.a concept can graduate into a term

b.a term is specific

c.concept are both abstract and concrete

d.concept has a broader view of reality

_________ stage is the stage at which the alternatives for dealing with a public problem are developed

a.formulation

b.evaluation

c.discussion

d.adoption

According to Stoker (1995), the traditional Institutitonal Aproach to Political analysis has the following features except

a.descriptive-inductive

b.formal-legal

c.Historical-comparative

d.Empirical- normative

_________ political analysis Is the mental acitivity employ to evaluate political pheomenna and providing reasons as to what is right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust, desirable and undesirable

a.scientific

b.Normative

c.descriptive

d.emprical

the following are the distinct stages in the policy process except

a.formulation

b.adoption

c.agenda setting

d.discussion stage

According to Osaghae, the stand points which provide the criteria for evaluating the normative analysis include

a.naturalism, cognitivism and morality

b.cognitivism, naturalism and postivism

c.naturalism, intuition and non- cognitivism

d.Intuition, conscience and morality

The functions of political parties include the following except

a.they are full policy-making organizations for the government

b.political parties engage in political education

c.they help to develop policies and ensure implementation

d.they represent groups of interests

The following are the features of military government except

a.Highly decentralized in structure

b.Absence of elections

c.Rule by decrees and Edicts

d.Perform both legislative and Executive functions

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