WorksheetsPolitical Science Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following statements best describes a vote of confidence?
A new government must pass a vote (on the cabinet's composition and proposed policies) in the legislature before taking office.
A government declares that a vote on a particular piece of legislation is also a vote on support for the government itself; if the legislators do not support the legislation, then the government will resign (and new elections might result).
A group of legislators propose a vote on support for the incumbent government. If the government passes the vote, then it stays in office. It must resign if it fails the vote (and new elections might result).
None of the above
Dictatorial autonomy allows dictators to ignore demands from special interest groups.
True
False
The independence of irrelevant alternatives criterion in Arrow's theorem means:
Adding new options should not change the ranking between existing ones.
All options must be considered equally valid.
Agents must report preferences truthfully.
Decision-making should exclude minoritarian opinions.
In the context of principal-agent problems, moral hazard refers to:
A situation where principals cannot oversee agents.
The risk of agents acting against principals' interests when monitoring is weak.
The inability of voters to express transitive preferences.
The agents' reliance on majority rule to justify decisions.
In an electoral authoritarian regime,
the ruling party consistently wins elections through fair and competitive means.
True
False
How do ex-ante mechanisms help address accountability in democracies?
By rewarding agents after performance evaluation
By removing poorly performing agents from office
By limiting risks through pre-delegation actions such as elections or screenings
By instituting penalties for non-compliance after decisions are made
How does the leader typically allocate resources in a system with a small winning coalition?
Through the provision of public goods for all citizens
Through the provision of private goods for the members of the winning coalition
Equally distributed among the selectorate
Reserved only for the leader's family
What impact does a weak loyalty norm have on a leader's provision of public goods?
It encourages leaders to rely on repression rather than public goods
It pushes leaders to focus on public goods to win over a broader base of support
It has no effect on public goods provision
It forces leaders to abolish public services
According to Arrow's theorem,
what is the result of any decision-making process that satisfies fairness and stability?
It guarantees a stable outcome in all situations
It requires some level of individual preference falsification
It cannot satisfy all conditions of fairness and stability simultaneously
It leads to a dictatorship
The Borda count method is immune to manipulation by introducing irrelevant alternatives.
True
False
