Deneme Sınavı Soruları

Who defines a political system, identifies its boundaries and the structures that compose it and what its operating logic is?

All are true of the economic analysis of politics regardless of different orientations EXCEPT

I. Distributive

II. Redistributive

III. Regulatory

IV. Constitutive

Which of the above is/are the features of typology proposed by Theodore Lowi that distinguishes policies?

Which of the following assumes the actor and his goals are independent of social forces?

'This element is of particular importance with respect to the collective perception of a symbolic and cultural commonality and recalls the sharing of traditions, customs, habits that are connected to the spirit of a people.' Which of the following elements of the concept of the nation is defined here?

Which of the following are the postulates of Niklas Luhmann’s systemic approach?

1. Both individual and society can be considered “systems”, that is, entities oriented to maintain over time the various components that compose them.
2. Every system refers to real processes in which actions maintain a regular course even within a complex and in some respects fluctuating environment.
3. The concept of system does not refer to the network of relationships that a given set entertains with its own reference environment, but rather all the relations of the parts with the whole.

Who wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published in 1962, shows that, because of the implicit characteristics of their objects, the social sciences struggle to identify with the single paradigm of a shared global vision of the scientific community’s disciplinary matrix?

What is the dichotomy shared by different orientations on studies of modernisation?

All of the following are characteristics of neoliberal populist parties EXCEPT

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.

I. it is differentiated from other organizations operating in the same territory.

II. It is autonomous.

III. It is centralized.

IV. Its divisions are formally coordinated with one another.

The above features define ........................

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?

According to Lipset and Rokkan, which four of the following are the social cleavages that stimulated different political movements in Europe?

1. Centre vs. periphery
2. State vs. church
3. Land vs. industry
4. Owner vs. workers
5. Integration vs. multiculturalism

According to Kircheimer, which of the following will mass parties do in the future to reach maximum votes?

1. they will abandon moral formations of the masses
2. they will strengthen the role of the leadership
3. they will weaken the role of the membership
4. they will no longer be bound by their ideology

Which of the following are aspects of a new party model proposed by Katz and Mair (1995)?

1. Reduction in activist contributions
2. Supportive of the state
3. Detached from the society
4. Dependent on public funding

Which of the following theorists is linked to structural functionalism in political science?