PPG Group Quiz number 2

focuses on politics within countries (often grouped into world regions) and analyzes similarities and differences between countries.

• domestic politics

• comparative politics

• international relations

• public law

studies the role of the bureaucracy. It is the field most oriented toward practical applications within political science and is often organized as a separate department that prepares students for careers in the civil service.

• public law

• public administration

• political theory

• public policy

studies constitutions, legal systems, civil rights, and criminal justice (now increasingly its own discipline).

• public law

• public policy

• public administration

• political theory

examines the passage and implementation of all types of government policies, particularly those related to civil rights, defense, health, education, economic growth, urban renewal, regional development, and environmental protection.

• political theory

• public administration

• public law

• public policy

consider the political relationships and interactions between countries, including the causes of war, the formation of foreign policy, the international political economy, and the structures that increase or decrease government policy options. International relations is organized as a separate department in some universities.

• domestic politics

• public law

• public administration

• international relations

Who is the head of the executive branch of government?

(a)  

is concerned primarily with political ideas and values, such as rights, justice, freedom, and political obligation (whether people should or should not obey political authority); it is normative in its approach (i.e., it is concerned with what ought to be rather than with what is) and rationalistic in its method.

(a)  

is the systematic study of governance by the application of empirical and generally scientific methods of analysis.  Political Science examines the state and its organs and institutions. Encompassing studies of all the societal, cultural, and psychological factors that mutually influence the operation of government and the body politic. It focuses on power— the ability of one political actor to get another actor to do what it wants—at the international, national, and local levels. 

(a)  

emphasized the dual loyalty of Christians to both God and temporal rulers, with the clear implication that the “heavenly city” is more important and durable than the earthly one.

• St. Thomas

• St. Agnes

• St. Augustine

• St. Rita

First political scientist

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Archimedes