Deneme Sınavı Soruları

Which of the following theorist aims to identify some rules that can describe and predict the behaviour of citizens and government elites in a democratic context?

This perspective sees political institutions as the super-structural concretization of a system of social contradictions, occurring primarily in the sphere of production relations. Which of the following explanations of the modern state is defined here?

All of the following are traits of exclusionary populism EXCEPT

Which of the following refers to the infancy of nations, when central governments begin to take control of the population by laying the foundations for the construction of a national market?

Which of the following change occurred as a result of the transition from party of notables to mass party?

I. It is the place of decision-making within a dialectical relationship with governments.

II. Its role varies with its autonomy from the government. 

III. It assumes a propulsive power.

Which of the following is defined here?

According to “public choice” approach, which of the following does the ruling party do to increase their votes?

1. make random use of goods and resources
2. maximize the role of public institutions
3. increase public spending in favour of some citizens
4. take the risk of growing the public debt

Which of the following elements is not one of the the presuppositions
and objectives of the behaviourist movement identified by David Easton?

1. They tend to conceptualise the relationship between institutions and individual behaviour in broad terms.
2. They tend to  emphasise the asymmetries of power connected to operation and development of institutions.
3. They tend to have an idea of political development that emphasises path dependence and unintended consequences
4. They are concerned with integrating institutional analysis with the contribution that other kinds of factors, such as ideas, can make to political outcomes.

Which of the above could be identified as features common to all historical institutionalist authors?

What is the main idea of the LIGA (or AGIL) scheme of Talcott Parson’s systemic approach?

Which of the following is NOT one of the presuppositions of the behaviourist movement based on its epistemological propositions?

Which of the following are among the fundamental functions of political parties?

1. guide the selection process of the candidates who will hold political positions
2. enable the opposition to monitor the work of government
3. contribute to the formation of public policies
4. educate citizens about a specific party to cultivate social exclusion

Which of the following are true for functionalism and systems theory?

1. They adopt a holistic perspective; everything is considered as more relevant than its parts.
2. The emphasis is on the actions’ consequences rather than the causes (motivations, desires, socialisation).
3. The objective dimension linked to the functional organisation of the system predominates over the subjective dimension represented by the perceptions and behaviour of individual actors.

Which of the following is a feature of “cell-based party”?