Political Science

Yanıt Açıklaması: The most illustrative book of the historical approach in political science is George H. Sabine’s A History of Political Theory. The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: In a theocracy god or a deity is recognized as the immediate ruler of the state. THe priests in such a state are required to implement God’s law drawn from the statute book of the kingdom.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Government is defined as a system through which a state or an entity is controlled. In the same way, government may be considered as the group of people exercising executive authority over a state.Government is defined as a system through which a state or an entity is controlled. In the same way, government may be considered as the group of people exercising executive authority over a state.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Modern writers prefer the use of the term ‘Political Science’ to ‘Politics’. So the suggestion E is not correct.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Conservatism extends the criterion even further. While liberalism offers the self—whatever that is—as a criterion of judgement, and while socialism offers an extension of this criterion so it includes the social—whatever that is—as a criterion of judgement, conservatism supposes that both of these are too abstract.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The projection of power can take the form of military, economic (through aid and trade), diplomatic, and cultural. Diplomatic and cultural power projections are often called soft power.

Yanıt Açıklaması: In modern times, sovereignty has acquired an additional meaning that now has legal standing. Influenced by the writings of political philosophers such as John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (see previous chapter for a full analysis of their writings), sovereignty is also interpreted as popular sovereignty, which means that ultimate authority lies with the people.

Yanıt Açıklaması: According to Paul Janet , Political Science is “that part of science which treats the foundations of the state and principles of government” (Johari, 2006: 7).

Yanıt Açıklaması: In a multi-polar world, reliance solely on brute power may not be effective. States have different interests. They may not have an agreement in a specific field, but agree on other fields. Thus, in an interdependent world, cooperation or soft power rather than confrontation is a better way of using power. The correct answer is B.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Legitimacy, in the political science context, can be defined as recognition of the right of rulers to govern. The issue of legitimacy has been a factor in governance since the beginning of history

Yanıt Açıklaması: A monarchy is a form of government where the sovereignty of the state is embodied in one or a few individuals who are expected to remain in power until death or until they decide to abdicate power.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), signed in 1947, “was an international agreement that promoted international trade and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994” (www.asil.org, 2017). GATT became the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Only a few of the nearly 200 political states or nation states are uniform in language, culture, and descent. Usually, these are mini-states such as Monaco (French-speaking) and Lichtenstein (German-speaking)

Yanıt Açıklaması: The theory of dialectical materialism and its application in history, i.e., historical materialism, are the two important tools in Marxian methodology.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Karl Popper has criticized historicism – especially Marxism – on the grounds that it insists on discovering what is inevitable, and then advocates ‘totalitarian’ methods for its realization.

Yanıt Açıklaması: John Rawls’s ‘basic structure’ is a restatement of Kant’s view without Kant’s metaphysics (Rawls, 2001: 48). In liberalism the relation between one self and another is contingent, not constitutive; and it is law which enables the freedom of separate selves to co-exist. Answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Power and authority are differentiated in a number of ways. Authority derives fundamentally from an office or position usually appointed whereas power can be exercised officially or unofficially

Yanıt Açıklaması: A constitution can be defined as a set of laws or legal provisions that outline the rights of citizens and the duties of government.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Après moi, la déluge is a political expression that is translated as “After me, the flood.”

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Legal approach stands for an attempt to understand politics in terms of law. It focuses on the legal and constitutional framework in which different organs of government have to function and the powers and procedure which makes their actions legally valid. The correct answer is D.