Introduction
to Political Science First Exam Review Sheet
- You are responsible for the lecture notes and
chapters 1, 2, and 4.
- You will have 80 multiple-choice questions on the
exam. Each question is worth one point.
- Bring a scantron number 882. They are available
from the bookstore.
- Bring a number 2 pencil.
- What is political ideology?
- Which ideology places emphasis on stability,
tradition and patriotism?
- What is the role of government according to
classical liberalism?
- Which political ideology places stress on the
welfare state?
- What are the characteristics/steps of the
scientific method?
- What is a hypothesis? What is a theory?
- What are the characteristics of the Great
Depression and the Vietnam
cohorts?
- According to Almond and Verba, which country has
the “best” civic culture?
- What are the criticisms of political science as a
science?
- What are the different types of political
knowledge?
- Which political ideology would be most opposed to
flag burning?
- How do you measure economic growth?
- Abrahamiam's
study of the "paranoid style of Iranian politics" is an example
of what type of political research?
- What are the shortcomings of the study “The Civic
Culture?”
- What does “normative knowledge” or “normative
statement” mean?
- What does the scientific method allow researchers
to prove?
- What are the elements of a democracy?
- Which ideology believes in personal freedom and
limited government the most?
- What are participants, subjects, and parochials?
- What did Max Weber say about the scientific
method?
- What is the best method to uncover the political
culture of a society?
- What type of culture dominates in a democratic
society?
- What are normative, affective, and cognitive
orientations?
- How does the conservative and liberal view about
inequality differ?
- What type of political culture dominates in Less
Developed Countries?
- Who invented the concept of mass and elite belief
systems?
- What are the definitions of politics?
- Which political ideology is “suspicious” of human
rationality?
- What are the sources of information about politics?
- Which
ideology particularly emphasizes that humans can be substantially altered
by their environment?
- What is political culture? What is political
socialization?
- How do revolutionary political systems socialize
kids in their “new” societies?
- How do children view the political system?
- The scientific method needs reliable evidence.
What does “reliable” mean?
- What does the story of “Feng Zhang” reveal?
- What is “validity” in the scientific method?
- What is “phi” and “Cramer’s V?” How do they
measure indicators?
- Which ideology relies on a strong state that
guides its people and promotes equality?
- What is the Aristotelian view of political
science?
- Which countries were included in the “civic
culture” study?
- What are the values of post-materialism?
- Which political ideology believes in slow change?
- What do religious revivalist movements seek?
- What does the term “liberal” mean in the United States?
- How do researchers translate variables into
indicators?
- Which political ideology is hostile to democracy?
- Why is it important for social science
researchers to define their concepts?
- What are the sub-fields of political science? What
is a “boundary spanning” sub-field?
- What are the characteristics of the beliefs of
“mass publics?”
- What are the belief systems of the US foreign
policy elites?
- How did Mao Zedong view the family?
- What does the Patti Hearst example reveal?
- How do the three major political ideologies view
change, the individual, private property, symbols, and markets.
- Which type of political orientation do Americans
score high on?
- Getting angry and lashing out against
Muslims/Arabs after September 11th 2001 reflects what type of
political orientation?
- Understanding the causes of September 11th
2001 reflects what type of political orientation?