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PLSC 1 Exam 1 questions with 100%correct answers(56)
Collective Dilemma - correct answer ✔✔Umbrella term
A situation in which the goals/self-interest of the individual do not align with the goals of the group
Collective Action Problems are a type of... - correct answer ✔✔Collective Dilemma
Types of Collective Dilemmas (5) - correct answer ✔✔Prisoner's Dilemmas
Collective Action Problems
Coordination Problems
Principal-Agent Problems
Unstable Coalitions
Define: Collective Action Problem - correct answer ✔✔A situation in which people would be better off if
they all cooperated; however, any individual has an incentive not to cooperate as long as others ARE
cooperating
Example of Collective Action Problem - correct answer ✔✔A clean kitchen would be a collective/public
good, but in order to have a clean kitchen, one must clean it. It would be in the group's best interest to
collectively clean the kitchen, but the individual urge to free-ride so long as one person DOES clean are
stronger than the urge to work together.
,Define: Public Good - correct answer ✔✔a benefit provided to a group of people such that each member
can enjoy it without necessarily having to pay for it, and one person's enjoyment of it does not inhibit
the enjoyment of it by others
Define: Private Good - correct answer ✔✔A product or benefit provided such that its enjoyment CAN be
limited to specific people, and one individual's consumption of it precludes others from consuming it
Define: Free Riding - correct answer ✔✔Benefiting from a public good while avoiding the costs of
contributing to it
Public goods, private goods, and free-riding are all apart of... - correct answer ✔✔Collective Action
Problems
Define: Prisoner's Dilemma - correct answer ✔✔An interaction between two strategic actors in which
neither actor has an incentive to cooperate, even though each of them would be better if they
cooperated.
A third party offers them no incentive to cooperate, and separates the two strategic actors.
Define: Transaction Costs - correct answer ✔✔The challenges people face when they try to exchange
information or use other means to cooperate with each other.
What is the similarity between a collective action problem and the prisoner's dilemma? - correct answer
✔✔In both situations, what is good for the groups is difficult to achieve because of individual
temptations
Collective Action: temptation to free-ride off of those contributing
Prisoner's Dilemma: temptation to implicate your partner (to defect)
Collective Action Problems are multi-person versions of the... - correct answer ✔✔Prisoner's Dilemma
,Enumerated powers are... - correct answer ✔✔Explicitly stated in the Constitution
Define: Politics - correct answer ✔✔The process of making collective decisions about how to allocate
scarce resources
Define: Political System - correct answer ✔✔The way a society organizes and manages its politics across
various levels of public authority
Politics involves the allocation of ________ ___________ to who? - correct answer ✔✔Scarce resources
Humans with distinct preferences
Politics involves the establishment and enforcement of what? Why? - correct answer ✔✔Establishment
and enforcement of rules and norms
To maintain social order and minimize conflict
True or False: Politics are not always contentious. - correct answer ✔✔False! They are always
contentious because people possess distinct preferences
Politics are both _________ and __________ - correct answer ✔✔Pervasive + Contentious
Political scientists study... - correct answer ✔✔The distribution of power in society
True or False: Political Scientists utilize the scientific method - correct answer ✔✔True!
Political scientists evaluate issues from a ___________ perspective. - correct answer ✔✔Systematic
Define: Political Behavior - correct answer ✔✔The activities of political actors as they participate in the
American political system
, Political actors include... - correct answer ✔✔The mass public
Political Elites
Define: Mass Public - correct answer ✔✔Citizens and actors who do not hold any formal role in politics
Define: Political Elites - correct answer ✔✔Attempt to use their power to influence the mass public as
they attempt to navigate the political environment
Define: Democracy - correct answer ✔✔government by the people
Define: Direct Democracy - correct answer ✔✔Citizens vote directly on decisions
Define: Republic - correct answer ✔✔Citizens elect representatives who make governing decisions
What do democracies give to the citizens? - correct answer ✔✔Political rights
Protection from government (civil liberties)
True or False: The US is a democracy. - correct answer ✔✔False. It is a democratic republic
Define: Authoritarianism
Includes...? - correct answer ✔✔The absence of citizen control over government
Includes...
Dictatorships
Monarchies
One-party states
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