WorksheetsWhat is politics?
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
Fill in the blanks:
"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.
Who is considered to be the originator of the view that politics is associated with public affairs?
Lord Acton
Plato
Karl Marx
Aristotle
Fill in the blank:
"....... is a field of study that aims to develop reliable explanations of phenomena through repeatable experiments, observation, and deduction."
Science
Paradigm
Tradition
Constructivism
Fill in the blank:
"..... is, in a general sense, a patter or model that highlights relevant features of a particular phenomenon."
Science
Tradition
Observation
Paradigm
Politics and IR: Two disciplines or one?
Two disciplines
One discipline
Don't know
They are not discrete but overlapping
Class is an example of what?
Concept
Theory
Model
Paradigm
