Politics

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Politics, in its broadest sense, is the activity through which people make, preserve and amend the general rules under which they live. ... Politics is thus inextricably linked to the phenomena of ----------- and ------------.

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conflict and cooperation

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Based on the figure above what can not be said about politics? Politics can be the art of government. Politics is about public affairs. Politics is about power. There is a strict common definition of politics. All of the above.

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There is a strict common definition of politics.

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Machiavelli was?

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A realist, the author of the Prince, the political thinker who drew attention to the use by political leaders of cunning, cruelty and manipulation, and Italian.

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Which is not right about Aristotle? He was a Greek philosopher. He was a student of Plato. His work became the foundation of Islamic philosophy, and it was later incorporated into Christian theology. In Politics, he portrayed the city-state as the basis for virtue and well-being. None of the above.

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None of the above.

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Civil society means what?

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institutions that are ‘private’, in that they are independent from government and organized by individuals in pursuit of their own ends

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Based on the figure what can not be said about public-private divide? Options: Public can be about the state or apparatus of government. Private is about civil society. Private is personal.

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There is a definite divide between public and private.

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Which is not an approach to study politics? Rational-choice theory, The philosophical tradition, Behaviouralism, The empirical tradition, Idealism

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Idealism

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Why are models important?

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Because models are theoretical representations of empirical data that aims to advance understanding by highlighting significant relationships and interactions.

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Who is considered to be the originator of the view that politics is associated with public affairs?

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Aristotle

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"....... is a field of study that aims to develop reliable explanations of phenomena through repeatable experiments, observation, and deduction."

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Science