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PSU PLSC 14 Exam 1 – Piazza Questions and Answers 100% Pass International Relations - Answer- Main subfield of political science that analyzes the international and domestic qualities of the international system. States - Answer- Sovereign countries that comprise the international system Sovereign - Answer- All governments reign supreme within each state's respective border. International System - Answer- Anarchic in the sense that there is no overarching government, though that does ...

PSU PLSC 1 Exam 3 Questions and Answers 100% Correct Public assessments of elected officials, attitudes toward political organizations and social groups, and preferences about whether and how government ought to address important problems can all be classified under the heading of __________. - Answer- public opinion An all-encompassing means of understanding the world or society, one through which an individual can filter all new political information and situations, is best described as...

International Relations - Main subfield of political science that analyzes the international and domestic qualities of the international system. States - Sovereign countries that comprise the international system Sovereign - All governments reign supreme within each state's respective border. International System - Anarchic in the sense that there is no overarching government, though that does not imply that it is disorderly. No state in it is fully independent, and no state can provide f...

PLSC 14 Exam 3 Piazza Penn State Questions and Answers 100% Pass tools states use to project economic power - Answer- aids and sanctions bilateral aid - Answer- Where aid is given by one country directly to another. multilateral aid - Answer- numerous different governments and organizations such as the world bank or the UN Types of aid - Answer- development, military, democracy, humanitarian the Marshall plan - Answer- Massive transfer of aid money to help rebuild postwar Western Europe,...

PLSC 14 PSU Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass States - Answer- Territorial entities in which a central authority provides public goods. Governments - Answer- Bureaucratic-legal apparatus constituting the central authority. Nations - Answer- Sets of people sharing identity of a cultural, ethnic or historic sort. Nation-States - Answer- Combination of a nation and state. Ideal that people within a state have a shared identity. Rare in real world. Correlates of War (COW) - Answer- 500,0...

What is public opinion and how is it gathered/measured? - Public opinion is the opinions held by private sectors persons which government finds it prudent to heed. It is gathered through scientific polling (random sample) done by telephone, interviews, and the internet. How do we interpret poll results? - We care about what many polls say, not just one They need context because people can lie What are polls measuring? - Attitude and aggregate beliefs How and when do people learn about pol...

Public assessments of elected officials, attitudes toward political organizations and social groups, and preferences about whether and how government ought to address important problems can all be classified under the heading of __________. - Answer-public opinion An all-encompassing means of understanding the world or society, one through which an individual can filter all new political information and situations, is best described as: - Answer-an ideology. American radio and television a...

PLSC 14 PSU Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass States - Answer- Territorial entities in which a central authority provides public goods. Governments - Answer- Bureaucratic-legal apparatus constituting the central authority. Nations - Answer- Sets of people sharing identity of a cultural, ethnic or historic sort. Nation-States - Answer- Combination of a nation and state. Ideal that people within a state have a shared identity. Rare in real world. Correlates of War (COW) - Answer- 500,0...

PLSC 1 PSU Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass During which period of time was federal power more centralized, expanded, and solidified more than any other period in American History? - Answer- New Deal Era () If you were to rank Brazil, Canada, and the U.S. in order, from federation giving the most autonomy to subunit governments to the federation having strongest national government, how would they be ordered? - Answer- Canada (Strongest subunit government), U.S., Brazil (strongest ...

PSU PLSC 14 Exam 1 – Piazza Questions and Answers 100% Pass International Relations - Answer- Main subfield of political science that analyzes the international and domestic qualities of the international system. States - Answer- Sovereign countries that comprise the international system Sovereign - Answer- All governments reign supreme within each state's respective border. International System - Answer- Anarchic in the sense that there is no overarching government, though that does ...