Exam 15: Politics

What is the difference between centrist and noncentrist parties?

People reject the government's monopoly on violence, and claim the right for themselves, in a(n)

_____, something new with the United States, is the concept that birth (and residence or naturalization) in a country imparts basic rights.

In a(n) _____, an individual has seized power.

A _____ is a government in which a country's largest party does not have enough votes to rule, and so aligns itself with one or more smaller parties to rule.

In the last seven U.S. presidential elections, a majority of _____ have consistently voted for the Democratic candidate.

In the early United States, _____ voted.

_____ is the exercise of power and attempts to maintain or change power relations.

According to Timasheff (1965), one of the three necessary conditions for a war to take place is

What are the levels of the power pyramid proposed by C. Wright Mills? Who makes up the different levels?

War is _____ among societies.

The _____ is a political entity that claims a monopoly on the use of violence in a country.

A _____ is a person who influences legislation on behalf of his or her clients.

Because there is no rule for succession when a charismatic authority figure dies, the leader will sometimes name a successor or build an organization that can govern after the charismatic figure is gone. Weber called this transition of authority the

Despite disunity and bloodshed, a sign of an effort at unity among nations is the