Exam 15: Authority and the State

Social rights to public assistance,such as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF),are contingent on proof of insufficient financial resources.This is referred to as:

Since the 1960s,the United States has experienced what kind of shift in political participation?

Authority most explicitly refers to:

Define bureaucracy and its five characteristics.How did Max Weber describe bureaucracies?

According to the state-centered approach,a politician from West Virginia who pushes a bill to improve health benefits for miners would do so to improve his or her own:

According to John Locke,money is the reason individuals submit to:

What term,as defined by the textbook,refers to the ability to carry out one's own will despite resistance?

Why does Puerto Rico have higher voting rates than the United States?

____________ rights guarantee a citizen's rights to participate in politics,including the right to vote and the right to hold an elected office.

Which of the following is an example of a legal-rational institution?

The civic voluntarism model points to three components to explain political participation or nonparticipation.Which of the following is one of these components?

Domination by authority means that the ruled believe their ideas are ____________ the ideas of the ruler.

A system of government wherein power theoretically lies with the people-and citizens are therefore allowed to vote in elections,speak freely,and participate as legal equals in social life-is referred to by the textbook as:

Most modern societies would be classified as having which type of authority?

Weber described bureaucracies as the ____________ of modern life.

During the Cold War,the United States tended to use hard power with regard to international relations.Joseph Nye,former assistant secretary of defense,concludes that use of hard power in international politics today is:

The Milgram experiment helped explain the actions of Nazis during the Holocaust because it showed that people:

Bureaucracies are known as impersonal entities.Explain how this can be positive or negative.

Max Weber felt that bureaucracies were necessary and inevitable in the modern world,but at the same time,he felt they had many negative aspects.What did Weber mean when he said a bureaucracy is an "iron cage" in modern life? Give an example of how a bureaucracy has "parceled-out your soul."

When Europeans came to North America,they were confronted by Native Americans.Because they wanted control and power over this population,Europeans told the Native Americans that they would take care of them by placing them in reservations in return for their land.What type of theory explains this type of welfare state?