Pols 207 Haney Exam 1 Questions with 100% Correct
Answers | Verified
/. Five Principles of Politics - Answer-Rationality Principle
Institution Principle
Collective Action Principle
Policy Principle
History Principle
/.Autocracy - Answer-A single individual rules
/.Oligarchy - Answer-A small group of landowners, military officers, religious leaders or
wealthy merchants rules
/.Democracy - Answer-A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant part in
the governmental process
/.Constitutional - Answer-Formal and effective limits are placed on the powers of
government
/.Authoritarian - Answer-No formal limits are placed on government but government may
be effectively limited by other social institutions
/.Totalitarian - Answer-No formal or effective limits on government's power of any kind
/.Politics - Answer-The Struggle over the leadership, structure, and policies of
government
/.Government - Answer-The institutions and procedures through which a land and its
people are ruled
/.Political Behavior - Answer-It all has a purpose, it's instrumental, not random
/.All politics - Answer-Collective action
/.Political outcomes - Answer-The product of individual preferences, institutional
preferences, and collective action
/.Political actors - Answer-Pursue policy preferences, reelection, power, and to
maximize their agency budget
/.Institutions - Answer-The rules and procedures that provide incentives for political
behavior and structure politics
, /.Jurisdiction - Answer-The domain over which decisions may be made
/.Agenda & Veto Power - Answer-Gatekeeping power and the power to say "no"
/.Decisiveness - Answer-Rules for decision making
/.Delegation - Answer-Transmission of authority
/.Collective Action - Answer-Is difficult and the difficulty mounts as the number of people
and interests involved grows
/.The Policy Principle - Answer-A logical combination of the first three principles
/.History Principle - Answer-How we got here matters
/.V.O. Key - Answer-Geographic size prevents formation of groups and benevolent
forces in the state
"Attention-getting antics substituted for organized politics"
/.Texas Geography - Answer-Varied terrain - from swamps in the Piney Woods, to sub-
tropical Galveston, plains of the panhandle, to deserts of West TX
/.Unity - Answer-"Unity lies in the mind"
/.Caddo Tribe - Answer-200,000 people by 1550 AD
"teches" (friend) > Tejas > Texas
/.Number of Spanish-speaking people by 1790s - Answer-3,200
/.Legacy of Spanish - Answer-Found in the names of the major rivers
/.Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - Answer-Launched the Mexican War of
Independence against Spain
Revolutionary call- "Call of Hidalgo"
/.Mexican Independence Day - Answer-September 16, 1810
/.Anglo Settlements - Answer-Spanish as Official Language
Conversion to Catholicism
Give up slaves
(Texans did not follow rules)
/.Legal Traditions - Answer-Unlike U.S., legal traditions have roots in Spanish/Mexican
tradition
Answers | Verified
/. Five Principles of Politics - Answer-Rationality Principle
Institution Principle
Collective Action Principle
Policy Principle
History Principle
/.Autocracy - Answer-A single individual rules
/.Oligarchy - Answer-A small group of landowners, military officers, religious leaders or
wealthy merchants rules
/.Democracy - Answer-A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant part in
the governmental process
/.Constitutional - Answer-Formal and effective limits are placed on the powers of
government
/.Authoritarian - Answer-No formal limits are placed on government but government may
be effectively limited by other social institutions
/.Totalitarian - Answer-No formal or effective limits on government's power of any kind
/.Politics - Answer-The Struggle over the leadership, structure, and policies of
government
/.Government - Answer-The institutions and procedures through which a land and its
people are ruled
/.Political Behavior - Answer-It all has a purpose, it's instrumental, not random
/.All politics - Answer-Collective action
/.Political outcomes - Answer-The product of individual preferences, institutional
preferences, and collective action
/.Political actors - Answer-Pursue policy preferences, reelection, power, and to
maximize their agency budget
/.Institutions - Answer-The rules and procedures that provide incentives for political
behavior and structure politics
, /.Jurisdiction - Answer-The domain over which decisions may be made
/.Agenda & Veto Power - Answer-Gatekeeping power and the power to say "no"
/.Decisiveness - Answer-Rules for decision making
/.Delegation - Answer-Transmission of authority
/.Collective Action - Answer-Is difficult and the difficulty mounts as the number of people
and interests involved grows
/.The Policy Principle - Answer-A logical combination of the first three principles
/.History Principle - Answer-How we got here matters
/.V.O. Key - Answer-Geographic size prevents formation of groups and benevolent
forces in the state
"Attention-getting antics substituted for organized politics"
/.Texas Geography - Answer-Varied terrain - from swamps in the Piney Woods, to sub-
tropical Galveston, plains of the panhandle, to deserts of West TX
/.Unity - Answer-"Unity lies in the mind"
/.Caddo Tribe - Answer-200,000 people by 1550 AD
"teches" (friend) > Tejas > Texas
/.Number of Spanish-speaking people by 1790s - Answer-3,200
/.Legacy of Spanish - Answer-Found in the names of the major rivers
/.Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - Answer-Launched the Mexican War of
Independence against Spain
Revolutionary call- "Call of Hidalgo"
/.Mexican Independence Day - Answer-September 16, 1810
/.Anglo Settlements - Answer-Spanish as Official Language
Conversion to Catholicism
Give up slaves
(Texans did not follow rules)
/.Legal Traditions - Answer-Unlike U.S., legal traditions have roots in Spanish/Mexican
tradition
