Quiz 1: Intro to Politics and Governance

According to Miller (2012), Political or politics traces its roots to the Greeks, "politikos" , which pertains to?

• Polis or policies

• Polis or city-states

• Polis or law-makers

• Polis or politicians

A practical science concerned with the noble action or happiness of the citizens.

• Economic Development

• Development Studies

• Political Science

• Behavioral SCience

Pursuant to the study conducted by Harris in 1997, politics involves the public issues which give rise to what situation of the society?

• freedom of the society

• growth and development

• social, economic and political conflict

• social stratification

A system that is responsible and authorized for allocation of values for a society.

• Economic System

• Political System

• Government

• Governance

A major social science dealing with political and governmental structures and processes.

• Development Studies

• Applied Economics

• Social Sciences

• Political Science

What discipline could be used by a political scientist to interpret political events that happened in the past.

• Geography

• History

• Economics

• Anthropology

Derived from the Greek word “geō”, which means "earth." and “graphein” which means "to write." A discipline that deals with location, territory, and resources.

• Geography

• History

• Anthropology

• Sociology

How Anthropology relates to political science as its discipline?

• The field revolves around the study of social groups in society

• Its concern is to attain the economic development of a country by having a development plan.

• It deals with the family, as well as professional, religious, and business associations. Then there are groupings along racial, ethnic, and linguistic lines.

• Its concern is to establish the cultural origin of man within the context of social institutions, education, religion, economy, and government, among others.

It is the instrument of the state through which the will of the people is expressed, carried out, and formulated.

• Law

• Policies

• Constitution

• Government

Politics includes these two processes in any group that makes and enforces rules for its members.

• decision-making and decision-enforcing

• development planning and policy implementation

• decision-making and law-making

• development planning and decision-enforcing