Deck 4: The Nation-State

Question 1

What is the phenomenon underlying 'Wagner's Law'?

A) Government spending rises faster than the growth of the national economy.
B) A rising share of social welfare spending of total government spending.
C) The gradual elimination of voting restrictions in democratizing nation-states.
D) State expansion is fostered by the ambition of the incumbent party to stay in power.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Among the traditional features of a state, what is meant by 'plurality'?

A) Sovereignty presupposes the sovereignty of others.
B) The population in a nation-state is hardly ever homogenous.
C) The gradual elimination of voting restrictions in democratizing nation-states.
D) The emerging diversity of constitutional rights.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

To counter the threat of socio-economic and cultural cleavages, states have undertaken two strategies to generate a sense of communality since the middle of the 19^th century: Citizenship and ?__________ .

Answer 3

Nationhood.

Question 4

What does Poggi call 'civilianization' of the state?

A) An increase of the potential for violence accompanied by a decrease in the actual exercise of violence.
B) The strategy to counter state-bureaucracy by methods of New Public Management.
C) The process of the extension of civil rights and increased protection from state violence.
D) The social construction of a collective identity.

Question 5

Poggi differentiates three phases of state-formation: 1.) Consolidation of rule, 2.) Expansion of rule, 3.)_________

Question 6

Citizenship is characterized by three elements. The order of their appearance was: 1.) Civil rights, 2.) Political rights, 3.)___________

Question 7

Which of the following answers is correct?

A) State-building can proceed nation-building or nation-building can proceed state-building.
B) State-building always precedes nation-building.
C) Nation-building always precedes state-building.
D) State-building and nation-building are largely independent from each other.

Question 8

Whats the following phenomena to the respective phase of state-formation:

Question 9

What are central aspects of the rationalization of rule? Please select all that apply.

A) The building up of bureaucracies.
B) Implementation of functionaries.
C) Financing through taxation.
D) The building up of state infrastructure.

Question 10

Do nations create states or vice versa?

A) Nations create states.
B) States create nations.
C) State and nation building are largely independent.
D) It can be both.