Seçmeli Ara Sınav - Political Science

Soru 1:

Which of the following information about citizenship is not true?

A) Citizenship includes the right to participate in the democratic process. B) The city-states in Greece gave rise to the concept of citizenship. C) The ability to vote is an important benefit for citizens. D) Membership in a political community where every citizen can determine the terms on an equal basis is an example of civil equality. E) Empirical theories set the rights and duties that should be performed ideally by a citizen.

Soru 2:

Which of the following can not be said about constitution and constitutionalism?

A) A constitution can be defined as a set of laws or legal provisions that outline the rights of citizensand the duties of government. B) Contrary to the public impression, constitutions go back fourthousand years to the times of the Sumerians. C) The increasing power of absolute monarch created a counter movementthat led to the role of constitutionalism. D) Currently, a constitution can take only one form. E) The United Kingdom has an unwritten constitution.

Soru 3:

When was the Peace of Westphalia signed?

A) 1215 B) 1453 C) 1592 D) 1648 E) 1789

Soru 4:

Which of the following is one of the characteristics of Presidential Systems?

A) In a presidential system of government, the executive branch of government derives democraticlegitimacy from the legislature. B) In a presidential system of government, the executive branch of government is accountable to, thelegislature. C) In a presidential system of government the executive branch and the legislature work closely together. D) It is believed that the presidential system of government originated fromSweden. E) In a presidential system, the president acts asboth the head of government and the head of state.

Soru 5:

Which of the following sentence can not be said abut federal state?

A) In a Federal System of Government, power is not shared between a powerful centralgovernment and states/ provinces. B) The states are given considerable self-rule, and typically have their own legislatures C) A typical federal state is characterized by the existence of a rigid constitution. D) Canada is made up of two cultures- English and French, cohabiting togetherunder a federal system. E) Geography has sometimes played a major role in maintaining federalism.

Soru 6:

"...............is 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?

A) Emancipation B) Equality C) Reality D) Humanity E) Ideology

Soru 7:

Which of the following ideologies concerns mostly with tradition and the religion manifest in tradition?

A) Socialism B) Liberalism C) Historical Materialism D) Marxism E) Conservatism

Soru 8:

Which of the following can be defined as "Group of people of a common culture derived from a feeling of unity based on customs and beliefs" ?

A) Nation B) State C) City D) Country E) County

Soru 9:

What is the privilege of membership of a political community called?

A) Federal Parliamentary B) Republic C) Totalitarianism D) Theocracy E) Citizenship

Soru 10:

-------- is a comment on or against an opponent, to undermine him personally, rather than his arguments. Which of the following concepts fills the gap in this sentence?

A) Ad hominem B) Collection C) Ideology D) Liberalism E) Conservatism

Soru 11:

Which of the following is the philosopher who said that conservatism is ‘to prefer the familiar to the unknown, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the convenient to the perfect'?

A) Edmund Burke B) Michael Oakeshott C) Hans-Georg Gadamer D) Evelyn Waugh E) Friedrich Nietzsche

Soru 12:

Which country has termed itself a melting pot as immigrants adopt a common language and adhere to other culture patterns?

A) Russia B) USA C) United Kingdom D) China E) Japan

Soru 13:

Political philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, John Locke and Marx raised the following questions: What ideals are sought to be realised through the state, what is the meaning of freedom and equality, what are the grounds and limits of political obligation? Who described this approach as historicism, and criticised it on the grounds that it insists on discovering what is inevitable?

A) Karl Popper B) J. S. Mill C) Jean Jacques Rousseau D) Jeremy Bentham E) James Bryce

Soru 14:

As a result of the Behavioural revolution, the emphasis in Political Science shifted to the behaviour of individuals in political situations. Consequently, -------- constituted the core concern of politics. In the words of --------, politics became “the study of shaping and sharing power” and a political act is “one performed in power perspectives”. Which of the following fill the gaps in the above sentence?

A) Power relations/Harold D. Lasswell B) Individualism/Abraham Kaplan C) Political behaviour/Heinz Eulau D) Behaviourism/Robert A. Dahl E) Scientific politics/Arthur Bentley

Soru 15:

Which of the following can be defined as a set of ideas by which men posit, explain and justify the ends and means of organized social action, irrespective of whether such action aims to preserve, amend, uproot or rebuild a given social order?

A) Fundemental Debt B) Ideology C) Aristocracy D) Tradition E) Change

Soru 16:

Which of the following is the ideology that people use to develop unity within the group?

A) Globalism B) Idealism C) Liberalism D) Nationalism E) Globalisation

Soru 17:

A -------- is someone who attempts to understand why the shift from an unenlightened order to an enlightened order was not as successful as many had anticipated, and then attempts to understand how socialism can be the historical completion of this shift. Fill in the blank in the above sentence.

A) Liberalist B) Socialist C) Conservatist D) Marxist E) Materialist

Soru 18:

Who said that conservatism, understood as a ‘disposition’, is ‘to prefer the familiar to the unknown, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the convenient to the perfect’?

A) Michael Oakeshott B) Robert Peel C) Edmond Burke D) Hans-Georg Gadamer E) Evelyn Waugh

Soru 19:

Which of the following country is an example of semi-presidential republic?

A) France B) Germany C) USA D) Holland E) Finland

Soru 20:

Since when has the term globalization come to the fore?

A) World War I B) The industrial revolution C) The American Revolution D) World War II E) 18th Century