WorksheetsPOG152 2024
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
When a state is classified as a “failed state,” which key role of statehood is it no longer capable of fulfilling?
Maintaining fixed borders and population control.
Participating in the international economy
Monopolising the use of force within its territory
Providing stable infrastructure to its citizens.
Which one of the following is a key element of the social contract theory?
The image of a hypothetical stateless society
The image of a hypothetical society
The image of a stated society
The image of a respected society
Which political party can be associated with the populist ideology?
ANC
EFF
DA
Action SA
What are the key features of social-democratic states?
Keynesianism and social welfare
Centrally planned economies
The state provides a framework for peace and social order
State intervention in economic life to promote industrial growth and economic development
Which of the following is not an accurate descriptor of "politics"?
A dialogue
A monologue
The science of man
A social activity
What is the simplest definition of politics as an arena?
Politics is the art of government public affairs
Politics is the persevering of government public affairs
Politics is the art of societal public affairs
Politics is the art of governmental private affairs
The Conservative notion of ideology identifies with which of the following?
That ideology will end
That ideology is an instrument of social control
That reality is incomprehensible
That ideology reveals a new science of ideas
What is the component that does NOT form part of civil society?
Private business
Clubs
Families
Bureaucrats
Which type of state has a very clear liberal lineage?
Pluralist state
Capitalist state
Leviathan state
Patriarchal state
What term did de Tracy use to refer to the new ‘science of ideas’?
Ideation
Intellectual thought
Ideology
Individualism
Which of the following is most sympathetic to positivism?
Rationalism
Behaviouralism
Rational choice theory
Post colonialism
What may be a threat to the global ecology?
Warfare
Globalisation
Multicultural politics
The nation-state
What is the role of a Chapter 9 institution as defined in South Africa’s Constitution of 1996?
To safeguard and promote democracy, accountability, and transparency
To audit the accounts of public institutions and prevent corruption
To ensure gender equality within government and prevent gender-based discrimination
To oversee and administrate free and fair national, provincial, and local elections
In what model of voting would people vote for a party based on personal self-interest?
Rational-choice model
Dominant-ideology model
Party-identification model
Sociological model
African nationalism is an example of which type of nationalism?
Liberal nationalism
Conservative nationalism
Postcolonial nationalism
Expansionist nationalism
