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6. What can citizens not have in the civic culture?

  • free speech
  • compete loyalty
  • political participation
  • political orientation

7. What are Paxton's requirements for positive associations?

  • objective associations and reciprocal, trusting, involving emotion
  • must be close friends
  • must bond across generations
  • must be different classes

8. Which of the following is not an explanation at the lack of erosion of social capital in the UK, according to Hall (1999)?

  • Government Policy
  • Immigration
  • Transformation of the Class structure
  • Educational Reform

9. Who found that social capital affects democracy and democracy affects social capital?

  • Putnam
  • Coleman
  • Paxton
  • Verba

10. Who made the distinction between bridging and bonding?

  • Paxton
  • Putnam
  • Coleman
  • Hall

11. Who says that social capital resides in relationships between individuals rather than in individuals themselves?

  • Almond
  • Coleman
  • Putnam
  • Verba

12. Who finds that the middle classes have twice as many associations as the working class, but they do not last as long?

  • Putnam
  • Paxton
  • Hall
  • Brehm and Rahn

13. Why is Mexico not an example of the civic culture?

  • underlying military tensions
  • lack of experience of political input and rejection of political output
  • too young a democracy
  • lacks passive output satisfaction

14. Who found that civic engagement and interpersonal trust are in a tight reciprocal relationship?

  • Paxton
  • Brehm and Rahn
  • Lipset and Rokkan
  • Almond and Verba

15. Why is the USA not an example of the civic culture?

  • the electorate is too partisan
  • the electorate is too religious
  • it has a 'strain of immobility which often pervades the American political process'
  • the separation of powers is too polarizing

16. How big an increase was there in adult voluntary associational behaviour between 1959 and 1990

  • 14%
  • 24%
  • 44%
  • 54%

17. In what sort of culture are citizens 'active yet passive; involved yet not too involved; influential, yet deferential', according to Almond and Verba?

  • civic
  • social
  • participant
  • political

18. Orbell and Dawes' virtuous circle due to anticipated cooperation prompting cooperative behaviour is accompanied by what?

  • a vicious circle
  • higher social trust
  • democracy
  • violence

19. Who defines the civic culture as a 'pluralistic culture based on communication and persuasion, a culture of consensus and diversity, a culture that permitted change but moderated it'?

  • Peter Hall
  • Pamela Paxton
  • Almond and Verba
  • Stephen Knack

20. Who says that we need 'limited polarization'?

  • Parsons
  • Lijphart
  • Almond and Verba
  • Paxton