March 2021 questions of introduction to politics

Last updated on March 29, 2021

All of the questions posed during the oral exams of Introduction to Politics in March 2021.

22 March 2021

What is the difference between riot and revolution?
What are the characteristics of discontent in a nation with a highly legitimate government?
What are the most likely forms of discontent that we expect to show up in autocratic and less than legitimate political environments?
Parliament have the power of the purse, what does it mean?
What is the practice pf pork barrel?
What is the difference between political culture and public opinion?
What are the main agents of political socialisation?
What is the impact of social media on public opinion and political culture?
Define accountability
What are the main features of totalitarianism?
What are the difference between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes?
What are the pros and cons of federalism and centralised unitary systems?
What are the main advantages of single district electoral systems?
What did Rousseau mean by general will?
What is the role of social classes in the Marxist theory?
How does general will emerge in a society?
How do contemporary authoritarian regimes use modern propaganda tools?
How did television change political communication?
What is the difference between the president’s role in a presidential and a parliamentary system?
What’s the reason for bicameral system?
What about about the Italian president of the republic? What power can you identify in this figure?
Who has the power to dissolve the parliament in the UK?
What is class struggle?
What is the difference between socialism and social democracy?
What is the difference between social democratic and social parties?
Describe the main features of a one party, two party, dominant party, multiparty system?
What is the relationship between party system and electoral system?
What are the key ideas of feminism?
What does it mean the “state is the problem rather than the solution”?
What about the most theoretical underlying idea of feminism?
What is gerrymandering?
What is the threshold clause?
What is a political generation?
What is the gender gap?
What is a confidence vote?
What is the difference with a “no confidence”?
What is a minority government?
What is a form of state?
What is the difference between an absolute monarchy and a constitutional monarchy?
What interest/causes do interest groups in the US tend to over represent?
How do political parties from interest groups?
What is the main function of a constitution?
What is the function of Constitutional Courts?
What are the main possible problems with bureaucracy?
What are the main findings of the bureaucratic politics model?
Can you explain the presence of bimodal distribution on key political issues?
What is the difference between independent and dependent variable?
What are the effects of the decline of civic culture?
What is the “Protestant work ethic”?
What are the main differences between international and domestic law?
What are the main differences between common law and code law?
Why is the German Bundesrat similar to the US Senate?
What are the causes of the decline of Parliaments hypothesis?
What is partisan polarisation?
What is retrospective voting?
What visible effects would confirm that a genuine revolution has taken place?
According to Crane Briton what happens during the Thermidor stage of revolution?
What is the possible influence of Confucianism on political culture?
What are the main features of political subcultures?
What is an illiberal democracy?
What is the relationship between oil and democracy (petrostates)?
What are the main advantages and drawbacks of single district electoral systems?
What are the main advantages and drawbacks of a proportional and electoral system?
What is the likely correlation between demography and revolution?
Explain the four stages of a revolution?
Explain what is Constructive no Confidence in Germany
Explain what Cohabitation in France is
Make an example of class voting in Europe
Make an example of regional voting in Europe
Define party identification
What is a relevant party
What was Niccolò Machiavelli main idea?
What was Confucius main idea?
What is the origin of the term liberalism (as classic liberalism)?
What are the similarities between classic liberalism and modern conservatism?
What is the role of social classes in the Marxist theory?
What is a social contract?
What are the advantages of the incumbency (in which electoral system are they higher?)
Why are committees important?
What is framing?
How does the political partisanship and the ownership of the media changes political communication?
What is the difference between elite media and popular media?
What is investigative journalism?
What are the main variables that might influence people’s choices? pro eu or anti eu
What is a constituency?
What is a centre periphery tension? Can you make an example?
What does the theory of life cycle say?
What is the relationship between public opinion and knowledge?
What is salience?
What is a single issue group? What is the difference with other groups?
What is the role of trade unions? Make two examples of different political cultures
What is political socialisation?
What were the main main features of Behaviourism? Why was it important?
What is a normative approach to the study of politics?
What are the main dangers related to the excessive reliance on opinion polls by a government?
What is a presidential rating?
What is the difference between semi presidential and parliamentary systems?
What is the divided government in the US?
What was Burke’s main idea?
What are the main tenets of Marx’s The Capital?
What is the relationship between constituency and elected representatives in proportional system?
What phenomenon partly explains Johnson’s victory in 1964, Nixon’s victory in 1972 and Regaan’s victory in 1987?
What is a unimodal curve? Why is it important for democracy? How can you explain the presence of bimodal distribution on key political issues?
What are the main feature of an efficient bureaucracy?
What is the difference between a head of state and a head of government?
How do contemporary authoritarian regimes use propaganda tools?
How did television change political communication?
What is a model in political science? What are the main purposes of using models? What are the possible drawbacks?
What is a political system?
What does modernisation theory argue about states such as Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan?
What typically makes democratic governments accountable?
What is a normative approach to the study of politics?
What is the difference between political science and political theory (or normative study of politics)?
What was according to Lenin the origin of imperialism?
What was Euro-communism?
What were the main features of Fascism and Nazism as ideologies?
What is class struggle?
What is the relationship between rising expectations and revolution?
What is the likely correlation between demography and revolution?
What are the effects of the decline of civic culture?
What is the possible influence of Confucianism on political development?

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