Political Science

Yanıt Açıklaması: The suggestion of "Liberalism doesn't separate ‘church’ and ‘state’" is not correct. Because Liberalism separates ‘church’ and ‘state’, by locating all matters of religion in privacy, so leaving the secular state dominant in public. And the other suggestions are correct. Answer is E.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The great Greek political thinker Aristotle said centuries ago that man is by nature and necessity a social and political animal. According to Aristotle, he who is unable to live in society or who has no need for it, because he should be sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Yanıt Açıklaması: During the 1960’s, Behavioralism received new challenges from within. The correct answer is C.

Yanıt Açıklaması: A unitary system of government is a political arrangement where a large proportion of power resides with the central government.

Yanıt Açıklaması: liberalism, socialism, and conservatism are considered the three major ideologies in the literature.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The development of Political Science as a discipline can be traced back to the 4th century BCE.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Historically, nationalism has come about as a result of increasing literacy, mass transportation, mass mobilization, mass communication, and mass media. These cultural and technological transformations have developed a feeling of identity that reinforces a broader sense of commonality, which often overcomes class, religious, and other differences

Yanıt Açıklaması: The option A provides a limited definition of sovereignty, B is a limited definition of popular sovereignty, C is the definition of constitution. E provides a general definition of legitimacy. The issue of legitimacy has been a factor in governance since the beginning of history. During the period of dominance by monarchy, it could refer to birth that a claimant to the throne would claim. In recent times, if elections are fairly conducted, election outcomes result in claims to legitimacy even though dictators also use them and often conduct them in a questionable manner to justify their rule as legitimate. In democracies, public opinion can eventually determine legitimacy. The correct answer is E.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Liberalism is the fundamental form of modern ideology because of the apparently simplicity of its criterion. The direct appeal to the self, especially the reason of that self (whether understood as rationality or reasonableness), is what made enlightenment possible. It also explains why the liberal is usually far clearer in argument than the socialist or the conservative. The pure thought of liberalism is that only the self has infinite credit: everything else is an instrument of that credit, and is in debt in relation to this credit. According to the liberal, whatever we want to achieve in the world can only be judged in terms of the fact that the fundamental debt is the one owed to the self. Thus, liberalism relies on the debt owned to the self. Freedom, highlighted in statements 4 and 5, does not constitute the basis of liberalism. The correct answer is C.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Those who espouse globalism and the end product of globalization believe fervently that people live in a global village

Yanıt Açıklaması: France is an example of countries that adopt the system of semi-presidential republic. The executive branch of government is made up of the chief of state (who is the president) and the prime minister (who is the head of government). The president appoints the members of the Council of Ministers. The president is elected directly by absolute majority popular vote in a 2-round system, for a 5-year term. The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: In a parliamentary system of government, the executive branch of government derives democratic legitimacy from, and it is accountable to, the legislature. This means that the executive branch and the legislature work closely together. In this system, the head of state is usually di erent from the head of government. The correct answer is B.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The first well-documented city-state appeared in southern Mesopotamia in Sumer around 5000 BCE. The correct answer is B.

Yanıt Açıklaması: David Easton a Behavioral turned Post-Behavioral political scientist defined Politics as “the authoritative allocation of values that are binding on the society”. The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: 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 According to him theoretical politics includes four divides. The correct answer is C.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The notable exponents of “scientific politics” were Charles Merriam, Harold D. Lasswell, George Catlin and Arthur Bentley. They looked especially to statistics and psychology as relevant tools for politics.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Scholars such as Westel W.Willoughby, Georg Jellinek, and Frederick Pollock make a distinction between the theoretical and applied dimensions of Political Science. To them, topics such as origin, nature, and ends of the state constitute a part of theoretical politics while others related to the actual administration of affairs of government fall under the scope of applied politics. It is generally agreed that this is a useful and convenient distinction. The correct answer is B.

Yanıt Açıklaması: A confederacy can be described as a temporary league of independent states that have come together for the purpose of achieving well-defined objectives.

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. This phase in Political Science is attended by a decisive reorientation of the discipline in terms of the methods it used. The notable exponents of this “scientific politics” were Charles Merriam, Harold D. Lasswell, George Catlin and Arthur Bentley. David Easton was very critical of the scientific politics, and was the most ardent advocate of Post-Behavioralism.

Yanıt Açıklaması: All information about constitutions is true, except the one in option C. The presence of constitutions date back to thousands of years ago. For instance, Sumerians and their successors in Mesopotamia had constitutions. The modern concept of constitution and the related theme of constitutionalism date back to the times of political philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. The correct answer is C.