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PLSC 001 Exam 1 PSU Questions and Answers 100% Pass Government - Answer- Any system for implementing decisions made through a political process Politics - Answer- Process of determining what government does Philosophy - Answer- the study of the fundamental nature of reality, knowledge, and how to live (also translated to the love of wisdom) Political Philosophy (Theory) - Answer- part of ethics, ethics applied to groups of people. Asks what the government should be doing. Metaphysics - ...

Types of Sanctions - Answer- Types of this include: bilateral, multilateral, trade, aid, financial, smart/targeted, total/comprehensive, and third party Bilateral Sanctions - Answer- Sanction from one country to another Multilateral Sanctions - Answer- Sanction from a group of countries to another Smart/Targeted Sanctions - Answer- Sanctions that are meant to focus their impact on leaders, political elites, and segments of society believed to be responsible for objectionable behavior, whil...

PLSC 14 PSU Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass States - Answer- Territorial entities in which a central authority provides public goods. Governments - Answer- Bureaucratic-legal apparatus constituting the central authority. Nations - Answer- Sets of people sharing identity of a cultural, ethnic or historic sort. Nation-States - Answer- Combination of a nation and state. Ideal that people within a state have a shared identity. Rare in real world. Correlates of War (COW) - Answer- 500,0...

PLSC 001 Exam 2 PSU Questions and Answers 100% Pass In 2012, the Government Accountability Office, through which Congress can investigate the financial and administrative affairs of any government agency or program, uncovered evidence of lavish spending at conferences by administrators of the U.S. General Services Administration, the government's real estate and office services and supply agency. In so doing, this staff agency helped Congress in its _________ role. - Answer- Oversight U...

PSU PLSC 14 Exam 2 – Piazza Questions and Answers 100% Pass Three General Areas of Focus - Answer- International Policy Economy (IPE), International Organizations (IO), and Conflict/International Security Conflict - Answer- War, violence, or threat of war or violence Security - Answer- Process by which actors seek to protect themselves from war/violence Carl Von Clausewitz () - Answer- A Prussian general and military theorist, wrote "On War". Believed that war was the continuation of...

PSU PLSC 1 Exam 3 Questions and Answers 100% Correct Public assessments of elected officials, attitudes toward political organizations and social groups, and preferences about whether and how government ought to address important problems can all be classified under the heading of __________. - Answer- public opinion An all-encompassing means of understanding the world or society, one through which an individual can filter all new political information and situations, is best described as...

PLSC 1 PSU Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass During which period of time was federal power more centralized, expanded, and solidified more than any other period in American History? - Answer- New Deal Era () If you were to rank Brazil, Canada, and the U.S. in order, from federation giving the most autonomy to subunit governments to the federation having strongest national government, how would they be ordered? - Answer- Canada (Strongest subunit government), U.S., Brazil (strongest ...

PSU PLSC 14 Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass What's international relations? - Answer- Main subfield of political science that analyzes the international and domestic qualities of the international system. What are states? - Answer- Sovereign countries that comprise the international system What does it mean to be sovereign? - Answer- All governments reign supreme within each state's respective border. What's the International system? - Answer- Anarchic in the sense that there is...

PSU PLSC 14 Exam 1 – Piazza Questions and Answers 100% Pass International Relations - Answer- Main subfield of political science that analyzes the international and domestic qualities of the international system. States - Answer- Sovereign countries that comprise the international system Sovereign - Answer- All governments reign supreme within each state's respective border. International System - Answer- Anarchic in the sense that there is no overarching government, though that does ...