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PLSC 2003 UARK exam 1 questions wellanswered to pass
Government - correct answer ✔✔the institutions and procedures through which a land and its people
are rule
Autocracy - correct answer ✔✔single ruler, kind of like a king (auto-one)
Oligarchy - correct answer ✔✔small group. Ex: military group, wealthy land owners
Democracy - correct answer ✔✔Citizens get to help. Voting
Constitutional Government - correct answer ✔✔a constitution or formal doc specifies formal and
effective limits on the powers of the government. USA
Authoritarian - correct answer ✔✔Where the law imposes few real limits not the government but it is
kept in check by other institutions that the government can not control
Totalitarian - correct answer ✔✔the government does not recognize any formal limits on their power.
Seek out to eliminate those that impose them. EX: Nazi Germany, North Korea
Politics - correct answer ✔✔Conflict struggle, cooperation and collaboration over the leadership,
structure and policies of government, who governs and who has power
Rationality Principle - correct answer ✔✔All political behavior has a purpose
Institution Principle - correct answer ✔✔institution structure politics.
Institutions-rules and procedures that provide incentives for political behavior thereby shaping politics.
EX: to get a law passed you have to go through a lot of different people
, Collective Principle - correct answer ✔✔all politics is collective action
Policy Principle - correct answer ✔✔Political outcomes are the products of individual preferences and
institutional procedures
History Principle - correct answer ✔✔How we got here matters... how we got here effects what we will
do in the future.
Political efficacy - correct answer ✔✔the belief that ordinary citizens can affect what the government
does, that they can take action to make the government listen to them.
Trust is low and only getting lower.
Citizenship - correct answer ✔✔informed and active membership in a political community
National Origins Quota System - correct answer ✔✔limiting the amount of immigrants from certain
nations from entering the US.
-Northern Europeans > Eastern and Southern Europeans
1924 - correct answer ✔✔Native Americans given the right to vote
Africans and African Americans - correct answer ✔✔14th Amendment in 1868 gave them citizenship,
13th freed them
Chinese - correct answer ✔✔labors from China were barred from entering the US until WW2 due to
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Hispanics - correct answer ✔✔Included in the census in 1970
1790-1870 - correct answer ✔✔Federal law prohibited non-white, non-free naturalized citizenship
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