Exam 15: Authority and the State

Even democracies tend to have authority figures.Thomas Hobbes suggests that without an agreed-upon authority figure,like a president,we would have:

Which of the following is a characteristic of a bureaucracy?

The president vetoes a bill although there is disharmony among supporters.This is an example of:

Within the international community,an unwritten rule exists that neighboring states must first recognize a new state's autonomy before:

A person who is always the center of attention and comfortable with being a leader probably has what kind of authority?

In a legal-rational society,personality and tradition are less important than:

Hereditary monarchies,whereby the crown passes down through a single family,are examples of:

____________ theory asks how democracy and capitalism can coexist and is concerned with explaining the contradictions between formal legal equality and social class inequality.

In 1961,Stanley Milgram devised an experiment to measure:

Weber broke down domination into two types.What are they?

____________ is defined by Weber as the probability that a command with a given specific content will be obeyed by a particular group of people.

Social Security benefits in the United States are an example of:

Which of the following is an example of an interest group?

According to Mancur Olson's ideas on collective action,what groups are better equipped to get what they want?

Most people living within a state have certain rights as citizens of that nation,called ____________ rights.

A prominent British economist postulated that government intervention,in the form of social expenditures,could pull the economy out of a recession by stimulating demand for products and services.This is referred to as:

Until places like Somalia are recognized by other states and international institutions such as the United Nations,they will remain:

Explain why Weber's definition of state does not fit many African states.

A system in which the state provides a number of key necessities such as food,health care,and housing outside the economic marketplace is referred to as:

The theory of logic of industrialism states that ____________ cause(s)the needs provided for by social welfare systems.