Political thought trivia

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• Who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France and is counted as the starting point of modern conservatism?Political thought
• Who wrote in On War that war is the continuation of politics by other means?Political thought
• As the Cold War drew to a close, what was Fukuyama's thesis that liberal democracy is where humanity's contest of ideologies finally arrives?Political thought
• Which 1944 book by Hayek warned that an economy planned from the centre ends up taking away individual freedom?Political thought
• Which Stoic idea holds that, since all people share in reason, all of humanity belongs to one community whatever country they were born in?Political thought
• After long wars and persecution over religion, what attitude did Locke and Voltaire champion towards people of other faiths and opinions, leaving them unsuppressed?Political thought
• Which view of the state makes it the state's job to provide social security so that citizens can live a decent life from birth to death?Political thought
• What is the name for the policy and ideology of extending rule by turning other countries and regions into colonies through military and economic might?Political thought
• Who wrote Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, based on a Harvard lecture course?Political thought
• Which major work did Marx devote to laying bare how capitalism works?Political thought
• Aristotle held that a state is more stable the broader its middle class of people who are neither very rich nor very poor.Political thought
• Fascism championed parliamentary politics in which many parties compete freely.Political thought
• Popper held that the heart of democracy lies not in who should rule but in whether rulers can be removed without bloodshed.Political thought
• Jeong Do-jeon, who led the founding of Korea's Joseon dynasty, held that real power over state affairs should rest with the king rather than the chief minister.Political thought
• Locke held that property first comes into being when the state hands it out by law.Political thought
• In the Republic, Plato held that democracy, with its excess of liberty, passes over into tyranny.Political thought
• Socrates is the source of the maxim 'a bad law is still the law'.Political thought
• The political labels 'left' and 'right' come from where members sat in the assembly during the French Revolution.Political thought
• Confucius put guiding the people by virtue and ritual ahead of governing them by punishment.Political thought
• The English word 'politics' comes from polis, the ancient Greek word for a city-state.Political thought
• What did Gramsci call the leadership a dominant group keeps by winning consent rather than by force?Political thought
• What is the collective name for theories that ground the legitimacy of the state in an agreement among people?Political thought
• What is the name for openly refusing to obey a law judged unjust in order to get that law changed?Political thought
• Which work of Hobbes takes its name from a huge beast in scripture as an image of the state?Political thought
• In the Republic, who did Plato take to be best suited to govern?Political thought
• Which Greek philosopher said that a human being is an animal that lives in a polis?Political thought
• Which political ideology puts individual liberty and rights ahead of the will of the state?Political thought
• Which ideology holds that the means of production, such as factories and land, should be owned in common?Political thought
• What did Rousseau call what the community aims at, over and above each person's private wishes?Political thought
• In which work did Montesquieu argue that power should be divided into three?Political thought
• Mill held that what a person does may not be blocked so long as it harms no one else.Political thought
• Montesquieu held that liberty is preserved by dividing power so that its parts check one another.Political thought
• Marx located the force that has driven history in the struggle between classes.Political thought
• Conservatism favours remaking society all at once according to a blueprint.Political thought
• Locke held that citizens may replace a government that abandons what it was entrusted with.Political thought
• Hobbes pictured the condition without a state as one in which people are at odds with one another.Political thought
• Rousseau's general will is simply the sum of what each person happens to want.Political thought
• The principle that a country's highest power rests with its people is called popular sovereignty.Political thought
• Aristotle held that a person becomes most fully human when living apart from others.Political thought
• Machiavelli held that a ruler can keep a state secure by staying within morality alone.Political thought