Consider the following questions:
PART A
Your answer should be at least two pages of average handwriting. It should focus on answering the question. It does not need an introduction.
QUESTION 1. Does business (in Australia, the USA, or your own country) have too much power over government and society?
OR
QUESTION 2. (a) What problems does corporate behavior cause for governments and societies?
(b) How do governments and societies deal with those problems?
Make sure you discuss the viewpoint expressed in the film, The Corporation.
PART B
QUESTION 3. Choose a recent community or social movement, from Australia, the United States, or your own country.
(a) What are its main objectives?
(b) What methods has it used to achieve its objectives?
(c) To what extent does the experience of this movement illustrate, or challenge, Tim Gee's theory of counterpower?
QUESTION 4. (a) What is fiscal policy?
(b) What are some of the key elements of fiscal policy in Australia & the United States, or your own country)?
QUESTION 5 . How is liberalism different from social democracy? In your answer, give a few examples of liberal policies and social democratic policies
QUESTION 6. What are some of the differences between the system of responsible government in Australia and the system of presidential government in the United States?
QUESTION 7. In his book, Supercapitalism, Robert Reich criticises corporate social responsibility.
What is his argument?
Do you agree?
QUESTION 8. (a) What are sectional interest groups?
(b) Name two sectional interest groups in either Australia, the United States, or your own country.
(c) For each sectional interest group, outline:
1. Who it represents
2. One government policy it is opposed to
3. How it has campaigned against that policy.
QUESTION 9. What methods do trade unions use to promote the interests of workers? Give one example of a situation where they have been successful.
QUESTION 10 . (a) What is proposition-testing?
(b) Why is it important in the study of politics?