The effort to figure out what the world is like and why it works as it does is known as ______.

A. applied Research
B. social science
C. basic science
D. overgeneralization


C. basic science

Political Science

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Congress can rely on which of the following to gain compliance from administrative agencies in implementing legislation?

A. public authority B. congressional analysis C. oversight D. parochial imperative

Political Science

One of the legacies of imperialism in most countries of the Global South is

a. cash crop rather than subsistence agriculture. b. highly developed infrastructures. c. profitable trade arrangements with former colonizers. d. highly effective police forces. e. strong democratic traditions.

Political Science

According to liberals, what can peace and cooperation in the international system bring to individual states?

a. Relative gains b. Absolute gains c. Balancing gains d. A and B e. B and C

Political Science

Which writer's utopianism was based on the notion: "From each according to his abilities; to each according to his needs"?

a. Plato b. Francis Bacon c. Karl Marx d. B.F. Skinner e. George Orwell

Political Science