Political studies

What did several thinkers believe would encompass the world after the Cold War ended?

• Anarchy

• Dictatorship

• Western-style capitalist democracy

• Communism

What did the Bush administration neo-cons argue as the United States invaded Iraq in 2003?

• Communism would rise again

• The Middle East would give way to democracy

• The United States should not intervene

• Democracy would not spread

What did the 2011 Arab Spring seem to show?

• The longing for anarchy

• The longing for dictatorship

• The longing for democracy

• The longing for communism

What happened to Russian democracy after the collapse of the Soviet Union?

• It became a Western-style capitalist democracy

• It collapsed back into an autocracy

• It transformed into state-managed capitalism

• It reformed into Chinese communism

What did Machiavelli emphasize politics is about?

• Equality

• Cooperation

• Power

• Freedom

What did the Milgram study demonstrate about human behavior?

• Rejection of authority

• Indifference to authority

• Conformity and obedience to authority

• Resistance to authority

What did cultural theorists conclude about behavior?

• All differences in behavior were biological

• All differences in behavior were cultural

• Behavior is a result of both biology and culture

• Behavior is independent of biology and culture

What does Immanuel Kant's notion of 'Percepts without concepts are empty, and concepts without percepts are blind' imply?

• Concepts are more important than percepts

• Percepts are more important than concepts

• Both percepts and concepts are equally important

• Neither percepts nor concepts are important

What did Aristotle mean when he said 'Man is by nature a political animal'?

• Humans are naturally aggressive beings

• Humans are naturally political beings

• Humans are naturally solitary beings

• Humans are naturally passive beings

What did the biological approach to political power suggest?

• Humans are perfectly political animals

• Humans are not political animals

• Humans are naturally political animals

• Humans are imperfectly political animals