Exam 13: The Functions and Forms of Government

Radicals believe that existing governments are important and must be maintained unchanged.

What are three major views about the nature of government? How powerful should government be? What elements of truth can be found in the three major views about the nature of government?

"A philosophy of life which, by rejecting the democratic concept of the mass-man, endeavors to give this earth to the best nation, the highest type of human beings, ... must secure leadership and greatest influence for the best brains. It rests on the basis of personality, not on that of the majority." The previous statement is:

Of all institutions of social control, government is the least inclusive.

The belief in the rule of elite whose members have special abilities is called fascism.

Of all institutions of social control, government is the most powerful and:

Government is by far the most powerful of all social institutions.

Robert Nozick sees a role for a minimal state and his views are called:

What are the primary functions of government? How do these functions help in better understanding what government is?

Thomas Paine contended that government is unnecessary "to supply the defect of moral virtue."

The Enron and Worldcom accounting scandals are examples of the need for less government controls and more deregulation.

The set of institutions by which a society is ruled is called a:

Karl Marx wrote that there should be an expansion of the "coercive powers of government."

The view that government must exist as is and should not be tampered with because it serves a necessary function is called the:

Propaganda is the product of the state controlling the press and structuring the flow of information to the people in order to make the state look good.