What is 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 ------------."

• war and peace

• democracy and state

• love and hate

• conflict and cooperation

• all of the above

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.

Machiavelli was?

• A realist.

• The author of the Prince.

• The political thinker who drew attention to the use by political leaders of cunning, cruelty and manipulation.

• Italian.

• All of the above.

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.

Civil society means what?

• the apparatus of the government

• the state institutions

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

  ends

• the family

• none of the above

Hannah Arendt believed that

• politics is the most important form of human activity because it involves interaction amongst free and equal citizens

• politics gives meaning to life and affirms the uniqueness of each individual

• politics is unnecessary

• politics is evil

Based on the figure what can not be said about public-private divide?

• Public can be about the state or apparatus of goverment.

• Private is about civil society.

• There is a definite divide between public and private.

• Private is personal.

"Power can be said to be exercised whenever A gets B to do something that B would not otherwise have done. However, A can influence B in various ways. This allows us to distinguish between different dimensions or ‘faces’ of power." Which are among the faces of power?

• Power as decision-making

• Power as agenda setting

• Power as thought control

• Power as religion

Which is not an approach to study politics?

• Rational-choice theory

• The philosophical tradition

• Behaviouralism

• The empirical tradition

• Idealism

"One of the most influential models in political analysis is the model of the political system developed by David Easton (1979, 1981)." Why are models important?

• Because models distort reality.

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

• Because models are at best complicate the reality they seek to explain.

• None of the above.