Deck 13: Polities States and Nation States

Question 1

A state is associated with all of the following except:

A) focus solely on consensus building.
B) standing army able to enforce laws.
C) centralized bureaucracy to carry out orders.
D) defined territory in which it resides.

Answer 1

focus solely on consensus building.

Question 2

Modern nation-states first emerged in the:

A) 18^th century.
B) 14^th century.
C) 20^th century.
D) 16^th century.

Answer 2

18^th century.

Question 3

Which of the following states is the most recent member of the United Nations?

A) Southeast Thailand
B) Western Africa
C) South Sudan
D) Northern Ireland

Answer 3

South Sudan

Question 4

Max Weber proposed that the state was a:

A) structure without power and unable to act except through citizens.
B) political entity to protect economic interests of the elite.
C) legally established bureaucratic entity.
D) neo-liberal institution.

Question 5

Claiming the authority to establish laws and control activities without external interference is called:

A) relativism.
B) sovereignty.
C) autonomy.
D) hegemony.

Question 6

Neo-liberalism includes all of the following except:

A) eradication of all self-interest.
B) de-regulation of trade.
C) upholding the value of individual rights.
D) open market and economic competition.

Question 7

Eric Hobsbawn argued that a national culture is associated with each of the following except:

A) focuses on a completely imagined history unconnected to ethnicity.
B) tends to downplay the importance of minorities.
C) tends to encourage feelings of national nostalgia.
D) evokes sentiments of pride in the citizenry.

Question 8

The interlocking set of political, economic, social, and cultural practices that forms a coherent and dominant worldview is called:

A) neo-liberalism.
B) autonomy.
C) hegemony.
D) sovereignty.

Question 9

Marx believed that the state was:

A) ethnic.
B) cooperative.
C) managerial.
D) coercive.

Question 10

The Indonesia guiding principles of state include all of the following except:

A) belief in one god.
B) cultural diversity.
C) social justice.
D) democracy.

Question 11

The Indonesian state motto is:

A) one god for all.
B) unity in diversity.
C) in adversity there is unity.
D) justice without end.

Question 12

In Indonesia, which language was chosen as the national language of instruction in schools?

A) French
B) English
C) Japanese
D) A former trade language of Indonesia

Question 13

The unique quality of a socialist state is:

A) abolition of private property.
B) militarization of the citizenry.
C) creation of a centralized bureaucracy.
D) retraction of employment opportunities.

Question 14

Which of the following was dismantled little by little in the People's Republic of China after the 1980s?

A) Kinship lineages
B) Collective property
C) Centralized government
D) Public education

Question 15

In 1991, the USSR:

A) was formally disbanded.
B) created large cooperative farming enclaves.
C) became a socialist state.
D) unified with the PRC.

Question 16

Which of the following is not a common form of property within capitalist states?

A) Private
B) State-owned
C) Common
D) Cooperative

Question 17

Each of the following is a common way that the state controls its population except:

A) creation of national identity.
B) land redistribution.
C) abolition of private property.
D) dismantling the nuclear family.

Question 18

If a person receives citizenship because of the status of another individual (such as a wife receiving citizenship because of her husband's status), it is called:

A) derivative citizenship.
B) secondary citizenship.
C) default citizenship.
D) birthright citizenship.

Question 19

Which of the following most represents a counter-hegemonic idea in a capitalist state?

A) Health care advocacy for the poor
B) Demand for schooling in rural areas
C) Demand for private property in a socialist state
D) Urban life for migrants from rural areas

Question 20

Which of the following statements about minority groups is correct?

A) States never use violence as a way to create national identity, although violence sometimes erupts between minority groups.
B) Weaker states have greater tendency to resort to violent tactics to prevent minority groups from obtaining power.
C) Stronger states tend to use more violent techniques and strategies to maintain supremacy over minority groups.
D) States foster violence in their populations as a way of maintaining firm military control internally and externally.

Question 21

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led directly to the "Trail of Tears" associated with the:

A) Cherokee.
B) Seminole.
C) Crow.
D) Lakota.

Question 22

"Ethnic cleansing" was a policy associated with:

A) developing a national identity that has no ties to ethnicity in multicultural states.
B) genocide and total destruction of certain ethnic groups in the Balkans.
C) eradication of minority groups in China following the rise of the Han ethnic group.
D) the removal of Native Americans from the eastern United States in the 1830s.

Question 23

The idea of cultural pluralism within state boundaries is called:

A) cultural multiplicity.
B) ethnic pluralism.
C) ethno-political pluralism.
D) multiculturalism.

Question 24

Which ethnic group is dominant in China today?

A) Mandarins
B) Han
C) Uighurs
D) Tibetans

Question 25

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

A) State efforts to control the media are uniform and complete.
B) A state can manage its citizens' impressions of the state by controlling the media.
C) Even in "freedom of the press" states, there is routinely some control of the media.
D) Most media in industrial states are owned by the wealthy class.

Question 26

In which country did a Cyber War erupt in 2009 between a conservative government and a highly educated young population?

A) Iraq
B) Jordan
C) Iran
D) North Korea

Question 27

The perpetuation of non-stop global tension and heightened threat of global warfare has been in effect since:

A) the Cold War.
B) WWI.
C) the Civil War.
D) the Korean Conflict.

Question 28

Carolyn Nordstrom's study of "shadow networks" creating informal wartime economics based on the trade of weapons, drugs, and illicit gems was in:

A) Botswana.
B) Angola.
C) India.
D) Syria.

Question 29

Which of the following statements about refugees is incorrect?

A) They often choose to leave their homes and countries willingly.
B) They have little say in the countries to which they will go.
C) They are often seen as a threat to the countries that receive them.
D) Their status raises troubling questions about the role of states.

Question 30

Modern states have the actual real power to enforce taxation.

Question 31

Weber regarded the modern nation-state as coercive.

Question 32

States use public schools to create a sense of national culture.

Question 33

Indonesia was a homogenous ethnic society when the state was first created.

Question 34

The socialist state first developed in the 1950s.

Question 35

Counter-hegemonic ideas are rare in state societies.

Question 36

Today citizenship is increasingly seen as a commodity worldwide.

Question 37

In Indonesia, citizenship is all based on land ownership.

Question 38

The U.S. government targeted Japanese-Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor and called for their internment in many areas, even though more than 60% of them were born in the U.S.

Question 39

During the post-Civil War era, the U.S. government intensified efforts to remove Native Americans from the eastern United States.

Question 40

Multiculturalism was endorsed by the U.S. and European states in the 1980s.

Question 41

In Guatemala, indigenous customary law has been included in the state legal system.

Question 42

Freedom of the press is a complicated matter in the United States.

Question 43

Much of the modern warfare technology actually dehumanizes its subjects and targets.

Question 44

The United Nations has the power to solve civil wars in countries where there is active movement of refugees.

Question 45

​What is a state? Define this and give an example.

Question 46

Define neo-liberalism. With which type of state is it most associated?

Question 47

Compare and contrast property ownership between capitalist and socialist states.

Question 48

Distinguish between birthright citizenship and derivative citizenship.

Question 49

Define multiculturalism and give an example.

Question 50

What were the various factors that led to the emergence of the modern nation-state? Consider various theories in your discussion.

Question 51

Compare and contrast a capitalist and a socialist state.

Question 52

What is multiculturalism, and what challenges and benefits might it create and provide under ideal state conditions?