Political Science

Yanıt Açıklaması: The immigration of Indian migrants into Fiji challenged this island-nation’s indigenous culture that ultimately led to a military coup by native Fijians and the expulsion of large number of Indians.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The projection of power can take different forms, including military, economic (through aid and trade), diplomatic, and cultural. Diplomatic and cultural power projections are often called soft power. The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: According to Marx, politics, economics, culture and ideology are all inseparably intertwined. It is hard to disentangle one from the other. The ‘forces of production’ at the particular stage of historical development are matched by definite ‘relations of production’ that characterize the society. The relations of production taken together constitute the economic foundation (base) of the society. The legal and political institutions (super structure) stand on this economic structure. In the Marxian approach to political analysis, politics is thus conceived in terms of the specific articulation of class struggles. Though other types of struggles are not ignored, class conflict is the core of the Marxist view of politics.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The legislative branch of government makes the laws. In the United States, the legislative branch of government is the Congress and it is bicameral, or divided into two parts. The “Senate” is made up of 100 senators and the “House of Representatives” is made up of 435 members. The correct answer is B.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Sovereignty can be defined as control over a territory.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Liberalism is wholly for equality, but only an equality of the self in relation to all other selves in terms of a shared structure of law. Socialism seeks an equality which does not offer the same to every self but offers the same to every self as constituted socially. In conservatism, equality is used in the sense that we are all equal before God. The correct answer is B.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Emancipation: The act of freeing a human being or class of human beings from the control of another, usually when this control is enshrined in some legal privilege or right (Scruton, 2007: 206).

Yanıt Açıklaması: A century and a half ago J.H. Newman declared that the fundamental theoretical principle of liberalism is that ‘no one should believe what he does not understand’ (Newman, 1890: 294.)

Yanıt Açıklaması: David Easton set forth seven major features of post-Behavioralism, which he called Credo of Relevance: substance over technique, change orientation, relevant research, value-laden research, political scientist as a critical intellectual, action-oriented research, and politicisation of the profession. The first one emphasises the superiority of substance and purposive research over mere techniques. The correct answer is E.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Historical Materialism is the fundamental tenet of Marxism in all its ‘classical’ varieties. The correct answer is D.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The United Kingdom of Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales, and the Northern Ireland) is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a drastic change in the study of Political Science. Social sciences began to adopt the methods of natural sciences like observation, survey, and measurement.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Democracy is a system of government in which citizens of a state partake in decision-making processes of state affairs. In a democracy, the people who control leaders hold the power. Two main types of democracy are direct democracy and representative democracy. In direct democracies, citizens actively participate in political decision-making. In representative democracy, sovereignty remains with the people. Political power is exercised indirectly through elected representatives. The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Generally, the liberal approach to political analysis can be divided into traditional approaches (Historical, Philosophical, Institutional, Legal ) and modern approaches (Behavioral and Post -Behavioral). The Marxian approach to political analysis, however, is entirely different from the liberal approach; and it is comprehensive in nature. Therefore, "Legal approach" is the correct answer.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Liberalism is an emancipation from the unenlightened liberties justified by tradition to an individual liberty, which is legal or political, justified by the secular criterion of the self. So E is not correct. The other suggestions are correct.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Michael Curtis remarks that ‘Politics is organized dispute about power and its use, involving choice among competing values, ideas, persons, interests and demands’.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Frederick Pollock divides politics into theoretical politics and practical or applied politics. According to him theoretical politics includes: • The Theory of the State • The Theory of Government • The Theory of Legislation and • The Theory of State as an Artificial Person

Yanıt Açıklaması: A nation is group of people of a common culture derived from a feeling of unity based on customs and beliefs

Yanıt Açıklaması: Sovereignty can be defined as control over a territory.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The conservative seeks no liberation from tradition. He has a criterion which is an extension of the original criterion, but which is extended so far that it appears to require the restoration of a traditional order, even religious order, which, according to the criterion, cannot be restored. To put it another way, the conservative has to accept the existence of an order which emerged from a revolution he could never have sanctioned at the time