Question 1
Identify three trends in equality of political power shown in .
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Question 2
Identify three features of the distribution of recorded stateless persons shown in .
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Question 3
Identify three features of the rule of law governance scores shown in .
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Question 4
Identify three ways in which formal classifications allocate authority and accountability shown in .
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Question 5
With explicit reference to as the Russian government's perspective, explain how its account shows that economic power can contribute to political and social exclusion, using another example from your studies not drawn from .
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Question 6
With explicit reference to and another example from your studies, not drawn from , explain how cultural power can normalize an unequal political relationship.
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Question 7
With explicit reference to 's perspective and another example from your studies, not drawn from , explain why legitimacy can limit the exercise of political power.
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Question 8
With explicit reference to and another example from your studies, not drawn from , explain how technical infrastructures can exercise structural power.
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Question 9
Compare and contrast the views expressed in Sources and about how structures and political narratives shape social exclusion.
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Question 10
Compare and contrast the information presented in Sources and about inequality of political power between social groups.
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Question 11
Compare and contrast the views expressed in Sources and about the foundations of legitimate public authority.
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Question 12
Compare and contrast the views expressed in Sources and about how classifications and procedures shape accountability.
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Question 13
Using and your own knowledge, evaluate the claim that power is exercised most effectively by controlling the structures that shape people’s choices.
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Question 14
Using and your own knowledge, to what extent are social and cultural forms of power more important than economic and political power in explaining social exclusion?
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Question 15
Using and your own knowledge, evaluate the claim that institutional checks are more important than administrative efficiency for the legitimate exercise of power.
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Question 16
Using and your own knowledge, examine the claim that classifications of power clarify political authority but can also conceal how power operates.
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Question 17
“In struggles for rights and justice and for peace, power is better understood as a capacity produced through collective action than as control exercised by one actor over another.” To what extent do you agree with this view?
Answer with reference to at least two real-world examples.
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Question 18
Compare and contrast the usefulness of classifying power as hard, soft and smart with classifying it as structural and relational when analysing rights and justice and development and sustainability.
Answer with reference to at least two real-world examples.
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Question 19
“In efforts to achieve sustainable development and build peace, relational power and power with are more effective than hard power and power over.” To what extent do you agree with this view?
Answer with reference to at least two real-world examples.
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