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1
According to "Arab Revolts Upend Old Assumptions," the epicenter of Middle East uprisings has been the demand for:
A)Sharia law.
B)respect and dignity.
C)an end to political corruption.
D)jobs and economic progress.
2
As reported in "Arab Revolts Upend Old Assumptions," the popular uprisings in the Middle East began in:
A)Tunisia.
B)Libya.
C)Egypt.
D)Dubai.
3
As noted in "Arab Revolts Upend Old Assumptions," former Vice President Dick Cheney's assessment of the impact of the toppling of Saddam Hussein on the Arab Spring is generally correct.
A)True
B)False
4
As reported in "The Global Context," ways in which Egypt is different from Tunisia in terms of demographics and revolution is that Egypt has:
A)no history of sectarian violence against minorities.
B)a smaller population.
C)a poorer economy.
D)a weaker military.
5
As pointed out in "The Global Context," the uprising that led to a change in government in Tunisia was called:
A)Bouazizi's Fire.
B)the Peacock Dynasty.
C)the Jasmine Revolution.
D)al-Abidne's Revenge.
6
As reported in "The Global Context," for the time being, social networking tools are more dangerous than helpful to authoritarians.
A)True
B)False
7
As stated in "Is Burma Democratizing?", a nation that has avoided regime change through defensive liberalization is:
A)Egypt.
B)Libya.
C)Tunisia.
D)Jordan.
8
As reported in "Is Burma Democratizing?", the current government of Burma has made its central economic principle:
A)crony capitalism.
B)basic communism.
C)state-dominated socialism.
D)cut-throat competition.
9
As noted in "Is Burma Democratizing?", Burma has been run by its military for the majority of its life as an independent nation.
A)True
B)False
10
As reported in "How India Stumbled: Can Delhi Get Its Groove Back?", the politicians of India:
A)have seen their authority strengthened in recent months.
B)do nothing to improve access to politics among the marginalized.
C)have done an admirable job of keeping democracy going.
D)have admitted their failures and are working to restore moral order.
11
As pointed out in "How India Stumbled: Can Delhi Get Its Groove Back?", the weakness of the Congress party in India is its inability to:
A)draw on its political legacy.
B)field strong leaders on the state level.
C)form a coalition government.
D)win the prime minister's office.
12
As stated in "How India Stumbled: Can Delhi Get Its Groove Back?", experts say that communal violence in India is at an all-time high.
A)True
B)False
13
As reported in "More Aid Is Not the Answer," in the past two years, global demand for African commodity exports has shrunk everywhere except in:
A)China.
B)Venezuela.
C)Vietnam.
D)the United States.
14
As identified in "More Aid Is Not the Answer," one of the recent influential studies on aid to Africa is a 2005 report on the United Nations' Millennium Project, directed by:
A)American economist Jeffrey Sachs.
B)Russian reformer Anatoly Chubais.
C)Colombian Nobelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
D)Britain's then-prime minister Tony Blair.
15
As assessed in "More Aid Is Not the Answer," after all is said and done, analyses of poverty, not geopolitical considerations, have governed most donor choices about aid spending.
A)True
B)False
16
According to "A Video Campaign and the Power of Simplicity," the Kony 2012 video was sponsored by:
A)Occupy Wall Street.
B)the UN Children's Fund.
C)Invisible Children.
D)the Save the Children Fund.
17
As reported in "A Video Campaign and the Power of Simplicity," Ethan Zuckerman's blog post in response to the Kony 2012 video:
A)was not based on actual research.
B)argued for the need to keep political messages simple.
C)did not reflect any knowledge of social networking and Africa.
D)suggests that the focus on rape as a weapon of war increases the incidence of rape.
18
As pointed out in "A Video Campaign and the Power of Simplicity," despite the uproar caused by the Kony 2012 video, Joseph Kony remains at large and in power in Uganda.
A)True
B)False
19
As stated in "Intensive Care for the United Nations," the definition of sovereignty has been altered by the spread of ideas about human rights-by what Eleanor Roosevelt presciently predicted in 1948 would be:
A)"a curious grapevine."
B)"our bread upon the waters."
C)"the global network."
D)"visionary responsibility."
20
As cited in "Intensive Care for the United Nations," in the fall of 2006, in the limelight of the General Assembly's stage, President George W. Bush was accused of having come there "talking as if he were the owner of the world" by:
A)Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.
B)Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
C)Canadian politician and senior UN official Stephen Lewis.
D)Jordanian prime minister Marouf al-Bakhit.
21
As asserted in "Intensive Care for the United Nations," the diagnosis of the world body is clear: the United Nations is impaired, but certainly not paralyzed.
A)True
B)False
22
The term "democracy," as presented in "What Democracy Is ... and Is Not," is generally used:
A)to define a single form of government.
B)as an emotional term, rather than a precise one.
C)to represent only the wealthiest nations.
D)as a cure-all for a nation's problems.
23
According to "What Democracy Is ... and Is Not," democracy:
A)consists of a unique set of institutions.
B)is based on the competitive principle.
C)does not consist of a unique set of institutions.
D)is essentially indefinable.
24
The authors of "What Democracy Is ... and Is Not" argue that different political systems can be differently democratic.
A)True
B)False
25
As identified in "Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings," in the 1970s the author found that since 1900 in Latin America:
A)efforts to democratize autocratic regimes largely succeeded.
B)democracy uniformly flourished.
C)no efforts to democratize governments succeeded.
D)about two-thirds of the efforts to democratize failed.
26
As reported in "Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings," since democratization occurred, in many countries:
A)nothing has changed.
B)there have been significant changes in power relations and economic equality.
C)there has been more decent treatment of citizens by authorities and a sense of greater personal freedom.
D)the government reinstalled autocratic regimes.
27
As claimed in "Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings," disappointment in recently-attained democracy is a serious threat to a fledgling democracy.
A)True
B)False
28
According to "Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring," most scholars have attributed the stability of Arab dictatorships to two common factors: the military-security complex and state control over:
A)the economy.
B)religion.
C)education.
D)emigration.
29
As noted in "Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring," both Egypt and Tunisia are overwhelmingly:
A)Sufi.
B)Sunni.
C)Coptic Christian.
D)Shiite.
30
As maintained in "Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring," most Middle East experts came to believe that Arab armies and security services would eventually break with their rulers.
A)True
B)False
31
As pointed out in "Advanced Democracies and the New Politics," over the last quarter century, people in advanced industrial democracies are decreasingly:
A)signing petitions.
B)joining lobbying groups.
C)voting.
D)engaging in unconventional forms of political action.
32
In discussing advocacy democracy, the authors of "Facing the Challenge of Semi-Authoritarian States" contend that:
A)it is a form of traditional lobbying.
B)it only involves exchange of information.
C)it concentrates on standard channels of informal interest-group persuasion.
D)its expansion is undeniable.
33
As stated in "Facing the Challenge of Semi-Authoritarian States," "sunshine" provisions are in keeping with Edmund Burke's view of the role of elected representatives.
A)True
B)False
34
As noted in "The Fight for 'Real Democracy' at the Heart of Occupy Wall Street," an obvious and clear message of the Occupy Wall Street protests was that:
A)anarchy is a legitimate political expression.
B)new representation is needed for effective government.
C)politicians represent banks more than their constituents.
D)democracy is survival of the fittest.
35
As identified in "The Fight for 'Real Democracy' at the Heart of Occupy Wall Street," the defining effect of the encampments at Madrid and Barcelona was:
A)anger at an incompetent political system.
B)anger over Spain's handling of debt.
C)disgust with housing conditions.
D)desire for more educational opportunity.
36
As pointed out in "The Fight for 'Real Democracy' at the Heart of Occupy Wall Street," Occupy Wall Street was the first of the tent protests to have any political component.
A)True
B)False
37
According to "Capitalism and Democracy," in most places, capitalism and democracy are:
A)interrelated systems.
B)entirely separate entities.
C)twin goals for which governments strive.
D)different terms for the same set of values.
38
As discussed in "Capitalism and Democracy," all of the following political thinkers share the belief that modern capitalism, with the dominance of the large corporation, produces a defective or impaired form of democracy except:
A)Charles E. Lindblom.
B)Robert A. Dahl.
C)Mancur Olson.
D)Joseph Schumpeter.
39
Adam Smith believed that a good government is a minimal government, as noted in "Capitalism and Democracy."
A)True
B)False
40
According to "Making Modernity Work: The Reconciliation of Capitalism and Democracy," political scientist Harold Laski said that the challenge of modern democracy was to:
A)make its own preservation a matter of urgency to its citizens.
B)maintain civil order.
C)enforce the terms of the social contract.
D)make itself invisible to the average citizen.
41
As reported in "Making Modernity Work: The Reconciliation of Capitalism and Democracy," the rise of capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led to decreases in:
A)social dynamism.
B)material benefits.
C)communal feeling.
D)personal freedom.
42
As suggested in "Making Modernity Work: The Reconciliation of Capitalism and Democracy," the modern political-economic system is the most successful system the world has ever seen.
A)True
B)False
43
As maintained in "What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?" the feature that makes modern representative democracy distinctive from earlier forms of democracy is:
A)due process rights.
B)universal suffrage.
C)naturalization processes for immigrants.
D)freedom of the press.
44
The first democratic institution to develop, according to "What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?" was:
A)a written constitution.
B)freedom of expression.
C)elections to a legislature.
D)private political organizations.
45
Modern democracies, as asserted in "What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?" rarely fall short of established democratic criteria.
A)True
B)False
46
As reported in "Rare Haven of Stability in Somalia Faces a Test," the government of Somaliland finds it difficult to secure international loans because:
A)the warlords of Somalia do not allow it.
B)Somaliland is not recognized as a country.
C)it is dominated by Islamists.
D)the country is so poor.
47
As pointed out in "Rare Haven of Stability in Somalia Faces a Test," Somaliland differs from the rest of Somalia in that it:
A)uses no official currency.
B)has no military.
C)was ruled by local elders before it was colonized.
D)was colonized by the British.
48
As stated in "Rare Haven of Stability in Somalia Faces a Test," clan is the prevailing issue in the presidential election in Somaliland.
A)True
B)False
49
Youth NGOs, as maintained in "Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization in Democratic Revolutions," were crucial to the democratic revolutions in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine in all of the following areas except:
A)mobilizing the protestors.
B)providing logistical support for the protests.
C)soliciting foreign monetary assistance for the protests.
D)forming the first wave of protestors themselves.
50
The two key social groups that made the Orange Revolution in Ukraine a success, as described in "Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization in Democratic Revolutions," were young people and:
A)unionized workers.
B)private businessmen.
C)foreign speculators.
D)dissatisfied civil servants.
51
Both Otpor and yellow Pora, as reported in "Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization in Democratic Revolutions," were successful in fielding candidates for the Serbian and Ukrainian parliaments.
A)True
B)False
52
As shown in "Online Activism," cultural activism is concerned with:
A)corruption and the rights of disaffected groups.
B)values, morality, and lifestyles.
C)access to technology and technological developments.
D)human rights and political reform.
53
As noted in "Online Activism," Charter 08 was:
A)a large-scale nationalistic cyber-protest.
B)a cyber-protest over the 2003 death of a migrant worker in Guangzhou City.
C)an example of "hacktivism."
D)an online petition calling for democratic reform.
54
As cited in "Online Activism," because of China's tight control over the internet, there is less political activism than cultural, social, and nationalistic activism.
A)True
B)False
55
As addressed in "China's Cyberposse," the prevailing narrative in the West about the Chinese Internet is the story of:
A)freedom.
B)rebellion.
C)propaganda.
D)censorship.
56
As identified in "China's Cyberposse," Ben Du is the head of interactive communities at the Beijing headquarters of the Internet forum:
A)Mop.
B)Sponge.
C)Broom.
D)Vac.
57
According to "China's Cyberposse," China is the only place in the world with a nearly universal recognition (among Internet users) of the concept of the human-flesh search.
A)True
B)False
58
As reported in "The Protestors and the Public," polls of Russian public opinion show a growing level of:
A)feeling that the country is moving in the right direction.
B)approval for the United Russia party.
C)uncertainty about the future.
D)optimism.
59
As noted in "The Protestors and the Public," a survey of the demographics shows that the protestors differed from the general Russian public in that they were mostly:
A)poor.
B)informed by the Internet.
C)female.
D)uneducated.
60
As pointed out in "The Protestors and the Public," existing political parties in Russia are elite networks that exclude new civic initiatives.
A)True
B)False
61
As stated in "Disabling the Constitution: Hungary's Illiberal Turn," the party currently in power in Hungary is:
A)the Socialist party.
B)the Politics Can Be Different Party.
C)Fidesz.
D)Jobbik.
62
According to "Disabling the Constitution: Hungary's Illiberal Turn," during Hungary's transition away from Communist rule, the constitution drafters opted for provisions to:
A)give small parties an advantage.
B)make the Constitution difficult to change.
C)give supreme power to the judiciary.
D)use seat bonuses to ensure stable government.
63
As pointed out in "Disabling the Constitution: Hungary's Illiberal Turn," the European Union contends that Hungary's lowering of the judicial retirement age violates European law.
A)True
B)False
64
According to "Chile's Middle Class Flexes Its Muscles," the current government in Chile has dealt with a period of:
A)constant political unrest.
B)declining standard of living.
C)impressive economic development.
D)degradation of voting rights.
65
As reported in "Chile's Middle Class Flexes Its Muscles," according to a survey conducted by Diego Portales University, the top national problem in Chile is in:
A)employment.
B)inflation.
C)environment.
D)education.
66
As pointed out in "Chile's Middle Class Flexes Its Muscles," the majority of people in Chile support democracy.
A)True
B)False
67
As maintained in "The Resilient Authoritarians," one of China's gradual reforms that led to its economic growth was to:
A)promote free speech.
B)loosen trade restrictions.
C)legalize private entrepreneurial activity.
D)privatize the banking system.
68
As brought out in "The Resilient Authoritarians," from 1978 on the aim of the Chinese government was to:
A)transition to a liberal democratic state.
B)create a capitalist economy in a communist state.
C)reinforce the collectivist state with reform programs.
D)prop up the autocracy with stricter social controls on its population.
69
As stated in "The Resilient Authoritarians," the nondemocratic Chinese government is an example of insufficient political development.
A)True
B)False
70
As noted in "Singapore Poll Energizes Voters," the office of president of Singapore:
A)is largely ceremonial.
B)has always been filled via direct elections.
C)has extensive executive authority.
D)is highly politicized.
71
As pointed out in "Singapore Poll Energizes Voters," the Peoples' Action Party of Singapore's preferred candidate for president is:
A)Tan Jee Say.
B)Lee Hsien Loong.
C)Tony Tan.
D)Tan Cheng Bock.
72
As stated in "Singapore Poll Energizes Voters," Singapore is one of the poorest nations in the world.
A)True
B)False
73
According to "North Korea," the only ally North Korea has left anywhere in the world is:
A)South Korea.
B)Pakistan.
C)Indonesia.
D)China.
74
As noted in "North Korea," Kim Jong-un alienated the Obama Administration quickly after coming to power by:
A)initiating trade talks with China.
B)firing artillery into South Korea.
C)working to develop a nuclear warhead that could hit the United States.
D)breaching the terms of its trade agreements with Japan.
75
As reported in "North Korea," the Obama Administration believes that the North Korean plant to enrich nuclear fuel is more advanced than Iran's.
A)True
B)False
76
As identified in "The Famous Dutch (In)Tolerance," in the Netherlands in 2006, Geert Wilders formed the far-right:
A)Christian Democrat Appeal (CDA).
B)People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
C)Party of Freedom (PPV).
D)Dutch Socialist Party (SP).
77
As mentioned in "The Famous Dutch (In)Tolerance," the Dutch word that refers to the decriminalized provision of vice is:
A)volkskrant.
B)grolsch.
C)gedogen.
D)minderheid.
78
According to "The Famous Dutch (In)Tolerance," the majority of Dutch immigrants are Muslims.
A)True
B)False
79
According to "Equal Rights for Women? Survey Says: Yes, but...", the only nation in which more than half of the people said women should not have equal rights was:
A)Qatar.
B)China.
C)Egypt.
D)Niger.
80
As reported in "Equal Rights for Women? Survey Says: Yes, but...", the only nation of the following where a majority of respondents felt that men had a better life than women was:
A)Poland.
B)Russia.
C)Mexico.
D)Indonesia.
81
As pointed out in "Equal Rights for Women? Survey Says: Yes, but...", Scandinavian countries were not included in this survey.
A)True
B)False
82
As noted in "The Impact of Electoral Reform on Women's Representation," out of 193 nations worldwide, the number of women at the pinnacle of power as elected heads of state or government is:
A)3.
B)9.
C)22.
D)68.
83
As examined in "The Impact of Electoral Reform on Women's Representation," it is generally found that the parties more sympathetic toward gender equality are:
A)representative of a wide range of ideologies.
B)in the center.
C)on the left.
D)on the right.
84
As pointed out in "The Impact of Electoral Reform on Women's Representation," compared with size of the foreign-born population, ethnic minorities are represented almost proportionally in the Tweede Kamer.
A)True
B)False
85
As noted in "Elections, Electoral Systems, and Conflict in Africa," author Paul Collier's work suggests that elections tend to work better in societies with:
A)no outside interference.
B)small populations.
C)many ethnic groups.
D)checks and balances on government.
86
As reported in "Elections, Electoral Systems, and Conflict in Africa," the lowest election score ever rated on the Elklit-Reynolds scale was in:
A)Zimbabwe.
B)Ghana.
C)Kenya.
D)Lesotho.
87
As pointed out in "Elections, Electoral Systems, and Conflict in Africa," John Stuart Mill believed that free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities.
A)True
B)False
88
According to "Israel's Unity Government: A Bid to Represent the Majority," as a result of Israel's system of proportional representation:
A)religious views are ignored in politics.
B)political instability weakens leaders.
C)minorities of some types are excluded from public debate.
D)the majority has taken total control.
89
As reported in "Israel's Unity Government: A Bid to Represent the Majority," Benjamin Netanyahu's unity coalition:
A)will prevent him from pushing through any big reforms.
B)lays him open to extortion from the small parties.
C)has an enormous secular majority.
D)has been universally lauded in the Israeli population.
90
As stated in "Israel's Unity Government: A Bid to Represent the Majority," Israel has never had direct vote for prime minister.
A)True
B)False
91
As noted in "Latin America: Democracy with Development," data from the World Values Survey shows that countries with higher gross domestic product:
A)have more dissatisfied citizens.
B)are less likely to have democratic government.
C)have a lower proportion of citizens with extreme political views.
D)have higher rates of civil unrest.
92
As identified in "Latin America: Democracy with Development," the four main objectives of the Global Center for Development and Democracy include all of the following except:
A)eradication of poverty.
B)increased social inclusion.
C)improved environmental sustainability.
D)strengthened democracy.
93
As stated in "Latin America: Democracy with Development," Latin America is the world's region with the most economic inequality.
A)True
B)False
94
Many judges, as maintained in "Reclaiming Democracy: The Strategic Uses of Foreign and International Law by National Courts," believe that reliance on foreign and international law inevitably comes into tension with:
A)their country's own constitution.
B)the evolving flexibility of legal opinion.
C)public sentiment in their own country.
D)the value of national sovereignty.
95
The phenomenon of national courts referring to foreign and international law in making their decisions, as put forth in "Reclaiming Democracy: The Strategic Uses of Foreign and International Law by National Courts," can be seen most particularly in all of the following areas except:
A)individual freedoms, such as speech and religion.
B)counterterrorism measures.
C)protection of the environment.
D)the status of asylum seekers.
96
Globalization, as asserted in "Reclaiming Democracy: The Strategic Uses of Foreign and International Law by National Courts," is placing increasing pressure on the domestic branches of governments to conform to global standards.
A)True
B)False
97
As noted in "Rule of Law, Russian-Style," the author states that the rule of law in Russia was:
A)first backed by the czars.
B)enforced by the communist party.
C)endorsed by Mikhail Gorbachev when he called for a "rule-of-law-based state."
D)abolished during Perestroika.
98
As stated in "Rule of Law, Russian-Style," Russians will now generally use the courts:
A)when they are in a dispute with someone who is similarly situated as far as power is concerned.
B)only when they must confront people more powerful than they are.
C)only when they must confront people less powerful than they are.
D)for all attempts to seek redress.
99
As concluded in "Rule of Law, Russian-Style," the weakness of civil society in Russia is a hindrance to more robust rule of law.
A)True
B)False
100
As reported in "A Cautious Win in Egypt's Power Struggle," Mohammed Morsy's moves to change the leaders of the Egyptian military:
A)involved those leaders for crimes committed during the uprising.
B)were viewed as a sop to secular political parties.
C)made him unpopular in the army's lower ranks.
D)represent a shift in the balance of power toward civilian control.
101
As noted in "A Cautious Win in Egypt's Power Struggle," an unexpected political opportunity seized by Mohammed Morsy occurred after:
A)an attack on an Egyptian post in the Sinai left 16 policemen dead.
B)the discovery of documents showing ties between the Egyptian military and the United States.
C)a military checkpoint failed to stop a truck full of weapons being smuggled into Israel.
D)moral indiscretions on the part of his political opposition.
102
As stated in "A Cautious Win in Egypt's Power Struggle," Mohammed Morsy now holds all executive and legislative powers of state in Egypt.
A)True
B)False
103
When Kim Jong-un was elevated to supreme leader of North Korea, as reported in "Korea's Third Kim," some optimists hoped for an opening of the country because he:
A)had experienced hardships in the countryside personally.
B)had ties to family in the south.
C)received an education in Switzerland.
D)often spoke out against the regime prior to his elevation.
104
According to "Korea's Third Kim," the main pillar of support for the new regime will come from:
A)students.
B)peasants.
C)teachers and other professionals.
D)the military.
105
Because the people of North Korea are entirely disillusioned by the performance of the previous government, as put forth in "Korea's Third Kim," Kim Jong-un has little reason to perpetuate the system put in place by his father and grandfather.
A)True
B)False
106
According to "What Caused the Economic Meltdown?", Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke attributes the financial crisis to:
A)high interest rates.
B)low interest rates.
C)too much regulation.
D)too little regulation.
107
As reported in "What Caused the Economic Meltdown?", the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history was:
A)Bear Stearns.
B)Lehman Brothers.
C)General Motors.
D)Coldwell Banker.
108
As stated in "What Caused the Economic Meltdown?", Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz contends that globalization allowed the toxicity of one country's mortgage market to spread to the rest of the world.
A)True
B)False
109
Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism, the precursor to today's Euro, as described in "Europe's Optional Catastrophe," collapsed under the pressure of:
A)high inflation.
B)falling interest rates.
C)stagnant wages.
D)attacks from hedge funds.
110
Prior to World War I, as explained in "Europe's Optional Catastrophe," central banks could not print money in unlimited quantities in response to economic crises because they:
A)would set off spirals of crises in neighboring countries.
B)lacked credible, global institutions.
C)were tied to the gold standard.
D)were given little autonomous power by their governments.
111
While the U.S. government passed the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) legislation in response to the global recession, as pointed out in "Europe's Optional Catastrophe," political leadership in Europe took no steps to create a comparable solution.
A)True
B)False
112
As noted in "The True Clash of Civilizations," the cultural dividing line between the West and the Muslim world centers on:
A)perceptions of democracy.
B)value placed on individualism.
C)money.
D)gender.
113
As pointed out in "The True Clash of Civilizations," the one Muslim country that did not think highly of democracy was:
A)Albania.
B)Indonesia.
C)Pakistan.
D)Azerbaijan.
114
According to "The True Clash of Civilizations," Muslim states have uniquely low levels of tolerance on the issue of sexual orientation.
A)True
B)False
115
As claimed in "Authoritarianism's Last Line of Defense," electoral authoritarianism is:
A)a single-party government.
B)a nondemocratic form of governance that allows for multiparty elections.
C)an example of an oligarchy.
D)an example of liberal democracy.
116
As described in "Authoritarianism's Last Line of Defense," the role of the legislature in an authoritarian regime is to:
A)write and pass laws based on the will of the people.
B)write laws that the state imposes upon citizens.
C)serve as the voice of the people.
D)unilaterally enforce the law.
117
As identified in "Authoritarianism's Last Line of Defense," while authoritarian regimes control most of government and society, elections are usually considered sacrosanct and not controlled by the state.
A)True
B)False
118
As cited in "Why Democracy Needs a Level Playing Field," in many countries democratic competition is undermined by:
A)unequal access to state institutions and the media.
B)electoral fraud.
C)authoritarian regimes.
D)a corrupt judiciary.
119
As presented in "Why Democracy Needs a Level Playing Field," in many nondemocratic countries the national media is:
A)wholly owned and controlled by the state.
B)a public good.
C)often controlled by the government opposition.
D)independent and free.
120
As noted in "Why Democracy Needs a Level Playing Field," in Cameroon it is illegal for the ruling party to use state monies to fund operating expenses.
A)True
B)False
121
As stated in "Democracy in Cyberspace," the defining trend of the times is:
A)critical infrastructure.
B)cybersecurity.
C)digital technology.
D)globalization.
122
As noted in "Democracy in Cyberspace," in 2001, protesters sent text messages to organize the demonstrations that forced President Joseph Estrada from office in:
A)the Philippines.
B)Ecuador.
C)Chile.
D)Portugal.
123
According to "Democracy in Cyberspace," of the hundreds of millions who blog in their own languages, there are fewer than 1 million in China.
A)True
B)False
124
As reported in "Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office," Spanish prosecutor Jose Grinda said in leaked diplomatic cables that:
A)the Soviet government strenuously works to combat the Russian Mafia.
B)organized crime in Russia sticks to traditional crime areas such as extortion.
C)the Russian Mafia exercises significant control of strategic sectors of the global economy.
D)it is clear that Spain has been singled out as a target of organized crime.
125
As noted in "Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office," of the nations that might sell nuclear weapons, the most worrisome is:
A)Iran.
B)Ukraine.
C)Bulgaria.
D)North Korea.
126
As pointed out in "Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office," ignorance of the scope of international organized crime makes it difficult to defend the budgets agencies need to fight it.
A)True
B)False
127
According to "The Coming Wave," the most economically developed non democracy in the history of the world is:
A)Indonesia.
B)Qatar.
C)Singapore.
D)Turkey.
128
As pointed out in "The Coming Wave," the one flaw in the institutionalization of Chinese Communist rule is the:
A)lack of decisiveness in making daily decisions.
B)lack of adaptability.
C)isolation from the world's markets.
D)inability to control human nature.
129
As pointed out in "The Coming Wave," the biggest obstacle to free and fair elections in Thailand is the military dictatorship.
A)True
B)False





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