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Sample Questions Poli Sci

This document provides sample questions that could appear on the midterm or final exam for an Introduction to Political Science course. It lists 36 potential exam questions covering a range of topics from social contracts and democracy to political attitudes, voting behavior, social movements, and the impact of globalization. The final exam will require students to answer 2 out of 3 questions and comment on one of two provided texts, though no example texts are included here.

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Sample Questions Poli Sci

This document provides sample questions that could appear on the midterm or final exam for an Introduction to Political Science course. It lists 36 potential exam questions covering a range of topics from social contracts and democracy to political attitudes, voting behavior, social movements, and the impact of globalization. The final exam will require students to answer 2 out of 3 questions and comment on one of two provided texts, though no example texts are included here.

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Sample questions – Midterm and Final Exam

Introduction to Political Science


Sciences Po/Bachelor/Reims and Menton
Emiliano Grossman

Please find attached sample question and documents. In the final exam, you will have to answer 2
out of 3 of those questions. Moreover, you will have the choice between two texts to comment on. I
am not providing you any example texts, but they should be similar to those provided for the
midterm exam.

Sample questions:

1 to 18 are the sample questions of the midterm exam (depending on the date of the midterm). The
final exam may refer to any question in this list.

1. Are social contracts vectors of democracy?


2. What is the contribution of Machiavel to the understanding of politics?
3. The transformations of democracy.
4. Multiculturalism and equality.
5. How do nations emerge?
6. What are the main types of contemporary democratic political systems?
7. Are nations a precondition for the emergence of democracy?
8. Accountability and responsiveness in democratic regimes.
9. Which are the key differences between majoritarian and consensual democracies?
10. Do democracies with multiple veto points perform better?
11. What drives obedience?
12. Power and authority.
13. Is democracy about choosing policy alternatives?
14. How is power defined in contemporary democracies?
15. Why do democracies fail?
16. Are democracies efficient?
17. Do authoritarian regimes perform better than democracies?
18. Are welfare state types converging in Europe?

19. How does culture determine political attitudes?


20. Why do people hold the political beliefs they hold?
21. Why do people radicalize?
22. Please explain the main assumptions of “rational-choice” approaches.
23. How and why do electoral systems affect electoral results?
24. Please explain the importance and limits of the median-voter theorem.
25. Why do people vote?
26. Why are people more and more disappointed with their leaders?
27. Discuss the main explanations of the vote?
28. Why and when do people mobilize?
29. When do social movements emerge?
30. What are the major ideal-types of state-society relations?
31. What are the contemporary trends in the evolution of state-society relations?
32. What are the driving forces of European Integration?
33. Does European Integration lead to convergence among member states?
34. How does globalization affect politics?
35. What determines the success of far right parties?
36. What explains partisan polarization?

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