The examination consists of 40 objective questions. Do not omit any.
2. Sign your name and write in your student number in the upper right hand corner of the test booklet.
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The examination consists of 40 objective questions. Do not omit any.
2. Sign your name and write in your student number in the upper right hand corner of the test booklet.
3. Be sure to fill in information regarding your name and student number on the answer sheets.
4. Double marked items will be scored wrong. Your score will be the number of items marked correctly.
5. Choose the single best answer to each question.
1. In which of the following countries does the constitution renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of
force as means of settling international disputes?
A) Japan B) Great Britain C) France D) Russia
2. According to Mark Lilla’s article “Politics of God”, the Great Separation was a product of a unique historic moment. Which of
the following describes this moment?
A) Wars among Christians and Jews during the Middle Ages
B) Disagreements on the nature of God among Muslim and Jews during the Middle Ages in the Middle East
C) Religious wars between different Christians sects in Europe
D) World War I and World War II
3. According to Mark Lilla’s article “Politics of God”, ____________, planted a seed, a thought that it might be possible to build
legitimate political institutions without grounding them on divine revelations:
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau B) Thomas Hobbes C) John Locke D) Protestant liberal theologians
4. According to Mark Lilla’s article “Politics of God”, John’s Locke argued for a political order in which, among others:
A) Messianic theology eventually breeds messianic politics
B) Power must be consolidated in the hands of one man
C) There must be only one dominant religion in the country
D) Power should be limited, divided and widely shared and that different religions would be allowed to flourish, free from state
interference
5. Bernard Lewis in his article “Islam and Liberal Democracy” argues that:
A) Liberal democracy has its roots in Islamic traditions
B) Liberal democracy has it origins in Confucianism
C) Liberal democracy has it origin in various non-Western cultural traditions
D) Liberal democracy is in its origin a product of the West
6. Bernard Lewis in his article “Islam and Liberal Democracy” argues that modernization in the 19th and 20th century:
A) Has left unchanged the autocracy in the Islamic states
B) Has substantially increased the autocratic power in the Islamic states
C) Has substantially decreased the power of autocrats in the Middle East
D) Has weakened the rulers’ power of surveillance, indoctrination and repression
7. Bernard Lewis in his article “The Roots of Muslim Rage” argues that the principle of separation of Church and State was first
given the force of law in:
A) Western Europe B) Soviet Union C) United States D) Middle East
8. Bernard Lewis in his article “The Roots of Muslim Rage” argues that the West is distinct from all other civilizations with regard
to sexism, racism slavery and imperialism in that:
A) The West invented slavery
B) The West invented sexism
C) The West invented slavery, sexism and imperialism
D) The West recognized, named, and tried, not entirely without success, to remedy these historic diseases
9. According to Bernard Lewis in his article “The Roots of Muslim Rage”, for Muslim, what is truly evil and unacceptable about
Western imperialism is:
A) The domination of Western culture of consumerism in the Middle East
B) The political domination of infidels over true believers
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10. According to Harrop:
A) The US President gets what he wants by issuing executive orders
B) The US President gets what he wants by centralizing authority in his hands
C) The US President gets what he wants more by persuasion than by command
D) A and B only
11. According to Harrop and the lecture outline, in the United States:
A) Party leaders in Congress may work with the President but they definitely not work for him
B) There is a lot of party discipline in the Congress
C) Members of Congress rigidly follow their party agenda
D) Members of Congress always vote along party lines
12. According to Harrop and the lecture, in the United States, log-rolling mean:
A) Policy making involving coalitions based upon shared party values
B) Policy making intending to confer benefits upon a legislator’s constituents, in the shape of government contracts,
construction projects, or federal installation
C) Policy making which involves legislators in the trading of mutual favors: the price of winning support for your own favored
measures is to vote for those of others, probably with scant regard to the intrinsic merits of the legislation concerned
D) Policy-making which involves US involvement in world affairs
13. According to Harrop, regulative policies
A) Seek to reallocate resources between groups
B) Convey tangible benefits to individuals or groups but without explicit competition within the sector
C) Embody rules of conduct enforce by sanctions
D) None of the above
14. According to Harrop:
A) Great Britain has the oldest written constitution among liberal democracies
B) Of France, USA, Japan, Great Britain is the only country without a written constitution
C) France has the oldest written constitution
D) Japan is the only country without a written constitution
15. According to Harrop
A) All ministers in Britain have a background on the subject matter of their department
B) One of the conditions for appointment of ministers in the British government is that they have a wide knowledge of the
subject matter of the department they are going to head
C) A distinctive feature of British ministers is their generalist ethos with an emphasis on a liberal education and few technical
skills.
D) Ministers in the British government have similar career trajectory as those in the US of America.
16. According to Harrop, in Great Britain:
A) The parliament checks the power of the governing party
B) The court checks the power of the governing party
C) The parliament and the courts checks the power of the governing party
D) Neither the parliament, nor the courts, nor federalism check the power of the governing party
17. According to the lecture, in Great Britain:
A) The president forms the government
B) The queen forms the government
C) The party with the most seats in Parliament forms the government headed by the Prime Minister who is the head of the party
D) Prime minister is elected the way the president is elected in the US
18. According to Harrop, France’s political system:
A) Is a parliamentary system only
B) Is a presidential system only
C) Is a hybrid between a presidential and a parliamentary regime
D) Is a system similar to that of United States
19. According to lecture, post-war France has been characterized by:
A) A series of weak governments and Republics C) Weak state (bureaucratic infrastructure)
B) Classical liberal capitalism D) High dependence on NATO
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20. According to Harrop, the most important special characteristic of the Japanese political system is the uninterrupted control of the
political structure by
A) The Liberal Democratic Party C) The Japan Socialist Party
B) The Democratic Socialists D) Japan Communist Party
21. According to Harrop, in Japan:
A) Relations between the government and opposition parties are not as combative as in United Kingdom
B) There is a cultural predisposition in Japan to prefer compromise to confrontation
C) Political structure in Japan is highly hierarchical
D) All of the above
22. According to lecture, civil servants in France:
A) Have a humanities degree
B) Form a prestigious elite, representing and serving a highly interventionist state, influencing politics and business
C) Do not enjoy high status
D) Are not very involved in business and politics
23. According to lecture, in Great Britain:
A) Queen is the “Head of the State” C) Prime Minister is the executive and “Head of the State”
B) President is the “Head of the State” D) The leader of the Party in Power is the “Head of the State”
24. According to lecture, members of Grand Corps in France:
A) Set the climate for policy debate
B) Help shape the political agenda
C) Initiate, regulate the output of society and influence business strategy
D) All of the above
25. Which of the following politicians is directly elected by the people?
A) The Prime Minister in Britain. C) The President of France
B) The Prime Minister of France D) The President of the United States
26. As political philosophies, classical and modern liberalism share a common belief in...
A) The dignity of the individual.
B) The need to eliminate inequality and abolish poverty.
C) The need to expand the role of government in managing the economy.
D) 1 and 2 only
27. In societies that have experienced invasions, foreign occupation and significant military casualties,
A) The state tends to more centralized and more authoritarian.
B) The economy is market oriented but open to government intervention.
C) Industrial development is shaped by a national agenda.
D) All of the above
E) A and C only
28. When applied to the U.S. Supreme Court, "Strict constructionist" means that the Supreme Court Justices
A) Respect the constitutional authority of the elected branches to make laws and not second-guess them.
B) Confer on executive agencies the authority to make up rules with the sanction of law.
C) Adhere as far as possible to the original intent of the constitutional framers.
D) Encourage the of use economic leverage to bring local government more under state control but routing local initiative grants
through state government.
29. Vertical policy communities seem to be developing in federal-state-local relations in which the interaction between levels of
government in a policy area, such as health care or transportation, is better than the co-ordination of policy between policy areas
at the same level of government. This pattern is known as ____.
A) The New Federalism C) "Picket Fence" Federalism
B) Coercive federalism D) Co-operative federalism
30. Pantouflage ("putting on the slippers") and amakudari ("descent from heaven") describe
A) The institutional arrangements for the conduct of a coherent and effective, "bank-based" financial system.
B) The movement of civil servants, either on a temporary or permanent basis, into key positions in business, industry or politics.
C) The use of incentives, such as subsidies, by government officials to obtain business compliance with government policies.
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D) The pursuit of economic and social objectives through industrial policies.
31. ______ refers to preponderant influence or authority of a nation or group over others.
A) Hegemony B) Technocracy C) Shaken D) Karoshi
32. Which of the following activities would be considered improper in Japanese society.
A) Men reading magazines with strong pornographic themes in public.
B) Publicly attributing the success of a society to racial purity or the failure of other societies to intermarriage and the presence
of "inferior" races.
C) Creating a confrontational situation in public that embarrasses or humiliates someone.
D) Not tipping a waiter for good service.
33. Coalition governments
A) Are formed when no single part has a majority in Parliament or the (Japanese) Diet.
B) Usually involve trade offs; the Prime Minister of the governing coalition agrees to appoint members of the coalition parties
to government positions in exchange for their party's support.
C) Have been very rare in post-war Japan.
D) All of the above
E) 1 and 2 only
34. In Japan, as in France, the farm vote is critical because
A) Food production and agricultural subsidies are essential to national self-sufficiency.
B) Agricultural cooperatives contribute large sums of money to local politicians.
C) Gerrymandering of electoral districts gives the rural population disproportionate representation in the legislature.
D) Agricultural communities preserve traditional social values.
35. In all four liberal democracies, laws passed by legislative bodies
A) Most often originate with the President or Prime Minister.
B) Are usually statements of general principle.
C) Usually provide a clear set of implementation guidelines.
D) Are written with minimal input for government departments or agencies.
36. Which of the following features do France and Japan share in common?
A) Significant casualties and military occupation by a foreign power.
B) A co-operative, government-industry relationship and state involvement in industrial development.
C) An effective, professional bureaucracy with the organizational resources and policy tools to intervene in industrial
development.
D) All the above
37. In France, cohabitation occurs
A) When the president's party has only a slight majority in the National Assembly.
B) When the president appoints a member of a rival party prime minister.
C) When the president rules by décrets.
D) 1 and 2 only
38. What do statutory instruments, regulations, arrêtes and ordinances have in common?
A) They are a type of legislation not subject to consultation or review.
B) They are a type of secondary legislation drafted in departments that regulate in detail the objectives set forth in laws.
C) 1 and 2 only
D) Nothing at all
39. The Japanese believe that the Japanese language is capable of nuance and attuned to nature and unexpressed thoughts in a way
that no other language is.
A) True B) False
40. In a “list system”, each political party prepares a fixed list of candidates prior to the election and is awarded a percentage of seats
in the legislative assembly equal to the percent of the votes it received in the election
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