Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 12

. Scholars in the sociological tradition see civil society as ________.

a) a repository of popular resistance to government policies

b) essential components of "political society" based on the principles of citizenship

c) rights, democratic representation, and the rule of law

d) an array of social organizations representing "stakeholders" in the process of economic development

e) organizations that act as allies to the World Bank and the IMF in the war on poverty

. The liberal notion of civil society is fundamentally concerned with ________.

a) the operation of multinational corporations

b) popular resistance to government policies

c) international development

d) protectionism

e) political development

. Civil society does NOT ________.

a) limit authoritarian governments

b) empower popular movements

c) enforce political accountability

d) improve governance

e) increase the effects of market forces

. The idea of civil society achieved prominence in connection with successive waves of democratization that began in ________.

a) Russia and China

b) North America and Western Europe

c) Latin America and Eastern Europe

d) South East Asia

e) developing countries

. ________ did NOT lead to a reinvention of the concept of development in 1948.

a) A postwar world order

b) An emerging East-West conflict

c) National independence struggles in Pax America

d) National independence struggles in Africa

e) The Cold War

. The distinction made in the text between social movements and non-governmental organizations applies to the ________.

a) capital accumulation

b) political sphere

c) development

d) parties involved

e) trade barriers

. In the 1980s, civil society ________.

a) restructured

b) weakened

c) strengthened

d) collapsed

e) was discovered

. The anti-globalization movement in the North has typically been based in ________.

a) suburban areas

b) urban centres

c) rural areas

d) poor communities

e) university and college campuses

. The following is NOT one of the forms social organizations generally take: ________.

a) community-based

b) social affairs

c) associations

d) interest groups

e) class-based organizations

. ________ are CSOs that have the greatest potential for constituting themselves as "actors" in the development process.

a) Grassroots social organizations

b) Non-governmental organizations

c) Private sector interest groups

d) International civil organizations

e) International lending organizations

. Social change can be analyzed in three dynamic factors: ________.

a) agency, structure, and context

b) growth, outcome, and sources

c) agency, outcome, and context

d) growth, structure, and sources

e) growth, agency, and sources

. The Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Brazil is an example of ________.

a) success of NGOs in poverty reduction

b) community organizations

c) private-sector interest groups

d) a complex of associational-type organizations

e) an environmental protection organization

. According to the text, the most challenging problem with the term "civil society" is that it is________.

a) too ambiguous

b) solely used by neoliberals

c) abused by radicals

d) nebulous as to make analysis and prescriptions for action difficult

e) a toothless term

. Social movements are generally concerned with disputing ________.

a) private sectors

b) poverty

c) the empowerment of women

d) environmental issues

e) state power

. Development means a combination of improvements in the quality of people's lives marked by ________.

a) a reduction in or alleviation of poverty,

b) an increased capacity to meet the basic needs of society's members,

c) a sustainable livelihoods, and empowerment

d) the changes in institutionalized practices or structures needed to bring about these improvements

e) all of the above

. The neoliberal economic model based on free-market capitalism in Latin America was and continues to be extremely successful.

a) True

b) False

. Prior to 1980, political scientists thought that democracy was essential for economic development.

a) True

b) False

. Civil society can be viewed as a kind of privatization.

a) True

b) False

. Civil society or non-governmental organizations are generally class-based in their actions.

a) True

b) False

. America has the highest amount of billionaires.

a) True

b) False

. The anti-globalization movement in the North has been directed against the neoliberal policies of government.

a) True

b) False

. The reign on untrammelled free-market capitalism over the past three decades has produced mass poverty.

a) True

b) False

. Poverty is the product of the same policies and the same system that generated a very unevenly distributed wealth.

a) True

b) False

. The anti-globalization movement in the North was based in the major urban centres and was rooted in the working class.

a) True

b) False

. The leadership of popular movements in the Global South used to rest on peasants and landless workers but is now in the hands of the working classes.

a) True

b) False

. Critics argue that the way in which the concept of social capital is used has a demobilizing effect on the dynamics of radical change.

a) True

b) False

. By 1990, all countries were aligned to this "new world order" of "globalization" and free-market capitalism.

a) True

b) False

. The strength of civil society is usually measured in terms of the resulting social fabric.

a) True

b) False

. The liberal tradition of civil society is fundamentally concerned with the political parties' involvement in the development of the country.

a) True

b) False

. In the international co-operation for development, civil society is viewed as an array of social organizations representing "stakeholders" in a process of economic development.

a) True

b) False

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