1. Looking at politics as the art of government offers a highly restricted view.

TRUE
2. Two major problems that need to be addressed first when defining politics: the word being a
loaded term and the difficulty in agreeing what the subject is about
3. In a restricted view of politics, it is seen as happening in cabinet rooms, government agencies
and the like, thus putting businesses, schools and even educational systems as ‘non-political’
TRUE
4. In politics as public affairs, the distinction between ‘the political’ and the ‘nonpolitical’ coincides
with the division between: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPHERE OF LIFE
5. & 6: Aristotle said that ‘man is by nature a political animal’, which meant that it is only within a
political community that individuals can thrive and live the ‘good life’
6. the traditional distinction between the public and private realms can be likened to the distinction
between the state and INSTITUTIONS LIKE FAMILIES
7. The alternative view of defining politics as public affairs makes a distinction between ‘the political’
and ‘personal’
8. Politicians being able to depoliticise their bad behaviour at home by labelling it as ‘personal’
matters is one implication of putting a divide between the public realm and: private life
9. Arendt argues that the most important form of human activity is politics because of how it allows
individuals to interact as free and equal citizens, thereby affirming an individual’s uniqueness
10. In Guy Peters’ article, one task of the government that is supposed to ensure there is no
duplication of government programs meant to address the diverse interests in the society is: the
creation of coherent public policies
11. The key idea that is derived in the following: Politics is the activity by which different interests
within a given unit of rule are conciliated by giving them a share in power in proportion to their
importance to the welfare and the survival of the whole community” WIDE DISPERSAL OF
POWER
12. (APPROACHES TO STUDYING POLITICS) Objective questions are untainted by feelings,
values or biases and are external to the one observing.
13. Normative questions refer to concerns that address the what ‘should’, ‘ought’ or ‘must’ be
brought about.
14. The empirical tradition of studying politics offers a relatively normative analysis of political
thought. FALSE
15. What is the belief that social theories should be constructed only on the basis of observable
behaviour with supporting quantifiable data? BEHAVIOURALISM
16. The empirical approach to studying politics offers a: dispassionate and impartial account of
reality
17. (DEMOCRACY) this definition of democracy speaks of liberation from oppression, ignorance and
even from superstition. FRENCH REVOLUTION
18. That everyone claims it as their own without really having ownership of the word means that
democracy is both sacred and promiscuous (Crick article) TRUE
19. In Greek, democracy means: THE RULE OF THE MOB OR ARISTOCRACY
20. ‘democracy is rule, or rather anarchy, of mere opinion’ this came from: THE GREEK VIEW
21. This definition puts importance on citizens being active participants in the society by making their
own laws ROMAN VIEW
22. This definition emphasizes the democratic notion that everyone must mutually respect the equal
rights of fellow citizens with applicable limitations. AMERICAN
23. While governments come and go, regimes normally endure until military intervention and
revolutionary upheavals take place
24. Government may include any mechanism through which ordered rule is maintained, its central
feature being the ability to make collective decisions and the capacity to enforce them
25. In Aristotle’s classical six forms of government typology, an oligarchy is characterised by the few
as rulers + rulers are beneficiaries
26. Regimes under this modern typology are sometimes characterised as having diffused power
throughout the governmental and party systems or institutional fragmentations which can be
manifested by separation of powers between the executive and the assembly, proportional
representation or a multiparty system, among others WESTERN POLYARCHIES
27. In the three words typology, a capitalist first world embodies, among other things, the principle of
free market
28. Democracy that has the political system going beyond fulfilling the basic procedural criterion of
the word itself: optimal democracy
29. Martial law in the Philippines September 21 1972
30. Cory Aquino transitional president
31. Veto
32. Article 7
33. 2 is wrong not 1 or 3
34. False – senate president