Exam 3: Power and Ideology

Describe the relationship between classical liberalism and modern conservatism.

China, North Korea and Cuba are examples of which type of government?

According to communists, the _________ determines the class structure and the political system.

__________ is an integrated system of ideas or beliefs that rationalizes and justifies the exercise of power, influencing how power is exercised.

John Locke's ideas about inalienable rights influenced Thomas Jefferson to include which of the following as God-given rights in the Declaration of Independence?

Classical liberalism emphasized the rational ability of human beings to determine their own destinies, and it advocated ideas, practices, and institutions that submerged individuals into a larger whole and deprived them of their essential dignity.

Communism asserts the individual's right to own property and to buy, sell, rent, and trade in a free market.

In a traditional economic system, established over the long-term guide how individuals and groups allocate scarce resources.

Bossuet's idea that monarchies, as representatives of God's will, could rule absolutely, ignoring the will and well-being of their subjects is called

Fascism strives for totality of power in which all sectors of society-education, labor, art, science-are incorporated into the state and serve the purposes of the state.

Marx urged workers to organize for revolutionary action. He asserted that only violent revolution will place the proletariat in power so they can set up the dictatorship of the proletariat to do which of the following?

The murder of millions of Jews, gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals, and the disabled was carried out in Nazi death camps during the Holocaust. This mass murder, or genocide, was carried out because these groups of people

Describe the relationship between the political ideology of classical liberalism and the economic ideology of capitalism.

The supremacy of the nation over the individual is a component of _________.

Gorbachev is the former Soviet leader who was closely associated with perestroika ("restructuring") and glasnost ("openness"). These economic and political reforms threatened

The goal of the fascist state is the development of a __________ of human beings.

Socialism and communism share the belief that

The first sentence of the Communist Manifesto exclaims, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of natural laws."

In Great Britain, the queen plays a ceremonial role but has little say in governance. This is an example of a constitutional monarchy.

Locke asserted that human beings form a social contract to establish a __________ to protect their rights.