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We will use a systematic and diplomatic approach to studying government here, we aim @ finishing the syllabus or @least large parts and also finishing the whole past questions @ the same time in a diplomatic way so for which topic on the syllabus we make a short key point notes according wat jamb require us to know and we treat lots of past questions regards to the topic....pls let's all govt student come in and let's learn together.

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zaragal:


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BoiGrammz:


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Government is a machinery through which the will of a state is being formulated expressed and attained

BASIC CONCEPTS OF GOVERNMENT

Power: This is ability to enforce obedience, it is the capacity to control ones behaviour by the use of "threat" or "sanction" how can be negative or positive and thereby sanction is used when their is Jon compliance

Authority:This is the mandate to exercise power over others. This is a transition of power from the people to a political leader to make and enforce law for the people to obey. Authority has 2 sources Dejure authority by law and De facto authority by force

Legitimacy : This is the transition or acquisition of power in accordance to the Constitution. It is the "recognition" and "acceptance" by the citizens of the country the right of the rulers to govern

Sovereignty: According to Jean bodin a french lawyer sovereignty is the supreme power of a state over the citizens without external interference or influence.
Note political sovereignty belongs to "the people" but in a democratic system of government it belongs to "the electorate"

Society: This is an association of people. Link by maybe beliefs, blood etc...there are family, church, trade unions

State: This is a group of people living within a defined territory with a government that has supremacy over them and absolute sovereignty from external influence

Attributes of a state in their order of relative importance
People or population
Defined Territory
Government
Sovereignty

Nationalism:This is the sense of belonging and love for a nation as a result of shared attributes such as race, Lang, geographic location, religion and policital aspirations. It's a feeling held by the pple to live together

Nation: This is a group of people living in a defined territory who shared common Lang, and descent in nigeria. It is a group of people who have common ancestral linkage eg yoruba, igbo, fulani, hausa, ibibio etc although a nation is not necessarily a state

Nation-State: This possesses the characteristics of State and a nation. It is group of pple sharing common language, descent, with a defined territory,govt and sovereignty.

Political Culture: This is the attitude, beliefs and opinion of people towards politics, politicians and the polictical system. This happen as a result of country's history or individual's experience in the country.
Polictical culture has 3 component
A) cognitive orientation : This refers to the people's "awareness" of their polictical systems. It's roles, offices holders and policies for example the way Nigerians understand their countries policticians may shape their reactions to polictical issues
B) affective orientation: This refers to the people's like or dislike towards Polictical systems, issues or politicand
C)evaluation orientation : This is the people's judgement and opinions towards politics they judge according to their preference or vakues

Political Socialization: This is the process of learning norms and values associated with the polictical system to shape one"s political behaviour. These are learned through family, school,peer group and mass media

Political participation: This is the voluntary activities of members of the society in politics esp election

Questions

1)The state is different from the government because
A) the state unlike the government is permanent
B) the government is made up of powerful people
C)the state is created by God
D) the state can exercise absolute power
E) the members of the government are elected

2)The psychological support a regime gets from the citizens of they believe the regime is right and ought to be obeyed is known as
A) sovereignty
B)power
C) authority
D) legitimacy
E) statehood

3)A political concept that defines the attitudes, beliefs, emotions and values of a society is called political
A) referendum
B)political culture
C)authority
D) socialization
E) power

4)the voluntary activities of members of a society in the selection of rulers is known as
A) political evaluation
B)political cognitive
C) political socialization
D) political participation
E) political culture

5)The two component of sovereignty are
A) political authority and political power
B) political culture and socialisation
C)political independence and supreme authority of the state within its territory
D) the rule of law and fundamental human rights
E) political influence and force

6) A political authority which maintains sovereign power over a specific geographical area is termed
A) society
B) country
C) state
D) nation
E) community

7) power can be defined as the
A) ability of the Parliament to delegate to another body or person
B)capacity to compel or influence others to do what they would otherwise not do
C) capacity to encourage others to do what they had originally intended doing
D) ability of the government to encourage communities to embark on selfhelp

in the process of governing "inputs" refers to the
A) decision and actions of the authorities
B) demands made by individual and groups for action by the authorities
C) actions taken by public officials
D) demands which have become official polices
E) regulations made by the government for individuals and groups

9)A political entity that possesses independent is a
A) community
B) nation
C) society
D) state

10)one of the most essential characteristics of the state is
A) the rule of law
B) civil service
C) legimacy
D) sovereignty

11) Authority refers to the
A) might to secure compliance from others within a given social setting
B) power to exercise might over other's behaviour
C) Mandate to exercise power over others
D) ability to compel others to act in a particular way

12)On what is charismatic Authority based
A) inherited wealth and power
B) tyrannical tendencies
C) institutional processes
D) personal ability and influence

13) which of the following defines the concept of government
A) the process of administering justice in a country
B) the process of supervising the activities of the legislature
C) the orderly management and control of the affairs of country
D) the orderly transfer of power to duly elected politicians

14)Government is different from other polictical organization because
A) is has legislate power over citizen
B) it's officials have fixed terms office
C)it can punish those who violate it's rules
D) it is made up of elected officials

15) The most distinguishing characteristics of a state is
A) government
B) population
C) Territory
D) Sovereignty

16)The process of learning the norms and values associated with a political system is referred to as political
A) socialization
B) indoctrination
C) culture
D) participation

17) The main attributes of a step are
A) population, territory, government and sovereignty
B) the press,the legislature, the executive. And the judiciary
C) federal, state and local governments
D) government, police and the armed forces

18) Power differs from influence in that it is
A) persuasive while influence is directive
B) coercive while influence is harmful
C) coercive while influence is persuasive
D) arrogant while influence is corruption

19) One of the features of a sovereign state is that it
A) is not indebted to other countries
B)has. A large number of soliders
C)practices the presidential system of government
D) has the capacity to defend itself from external aggression

20)A common feature of government
A) the separation of powers
B) making of public policies
C)the independence of the judiciaryv
D) A written constitution

Government Syllabus from JAMB
1. Basic concepts in government 2. Forms of Government 3. Arms of Government: 4. Structures of Governance: 5. Systems of Governance: 7. Constitution 6. Political Ideologies: 8. Principles of Democratic Government: 9. Processes of Legislation: 10. Citizenship: 11. The Electoral Process: 12. Party systems. 13. Pressure Groups: 14. Public Opinion: 15. The Civil Service:
GOVERNMENT Syllabus continued:...
PART II POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
1. Pre – colonial Polities: 2. Imperialist Penetration: 3. Process of Decolonization 4. Post – Independence Constitutions 5. Institutions of Government in the Post 6. Public Commissions Established by the 1979 and Subsequent Constitutions: 7. Political Parties in the Post- Independence Period: 8. The Structure and Workings of Nigerian Federalism: 9. Public Corporations and Parastatals 10. Local Government: 11. The millitary in Nigerian politics

PART III: NIGERIA AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. 1. Foreign Policy: 2. Relations with African Countries: 3. Nigeria in International Organizations
PART IV: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: 1. International Organizations: a. ECOWAS; b. OAU, AU; c. Commonwealth; d. UNO; e. OPEC;

21)A set Internalized norms which guides political action is called
A) power
B) value
C) law
D) symbol

22) A society that is politically organized under a government is called a
A) sovereign state
B) community
C)national state
D)society

23) The agent through which the state undertakes political socialization is
A)school
B)family
C) peer group
D)pressure group

24)Government means the machinery established by a state to manage the affairs of the
A) rulers
B) aliens
C) civil servants
D) people

25) A nation is synonymous is with a
A)sovereign state
B) dependent territory
C) nation
D) political community

HomoSapiien:
Following - even though I will have to go to Jamb office to Change the useless Commerce I chosed to Government..

Please zaragal, is dere any Government textbook that asks question after treating every subject just like "Jamb A-Z use of English" and 'Economics exam focus'?

You can buy exam focus....u will do just fine...

Homosapiien which inst did u pick commerce if it's uniben u don't really hav a problem

zaragal:

You can buy exam focus....u will do just fine...

Exam focus for Government? How much?

HomoSapiien:


Exam focus for Government? How much?

700

zaragal:

700

Good! Hope it covers the syllabus?

HomoSapiien:


Good! Hope it covers the syllabus?

Yea

zaragal:

Yea

Aiit

1.D 2.E 3.A 4.A 5.D 6.C 7.B 8.B 9.D 10.D 11.D 12.A 13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.C 18.C 19.C 20.A 21.C 22.B 23.A 24.D 25.C. Pls mark it

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ayomide74:
1.D 2.E 3.A 4.A 5.D 6.C 7.B 8.B 9.D 10.D 11.D 12.A 13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.C 18.C 19.C 20.A 21.C 22.B 23.A 24.D 25.C. Pls mark it

zaragal:


Pls leave my threads plsssss....or u cn take up the job and post the questions here for Nokia and BlackBerry users too..

Mark my workings

ayomide74:
1.D 2.E 3.A 4.A 5.D 6.C 7.B 8.B 9.D 10.D 11.D 12.A 13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.C 18.C 19.C 20.A 21.C 22.B 23.A 24.D 25.C. Pls mark it

1)A 2.D 3.D 4.D 5.C 6C 7B 8C 9D 10D
11C 12D 13C 14 A 15D 16A 17 A 18C 19 D 20 B 21 C 22 A 23 A 24D 25 A

More questions loading and next topic polictical ideologies later in the evening...best of luck

26) The right to direct and command people is
A) authority
B) power
C) opinion
D)obedience

27)major difference between power and authority is that authority is
A) popularly acquired
B)more costly to exercise
C) less dependent on force
D)exercise more frequently

28)The exercise of political power involves
A) winning elections
B) using the police
C) deciding cases
D)allocating values

29)sovereignty is limited by
A) the criminal code
B) decrees
C) legal system
D) international law

30)Political authority is vested in the
A) state
B) judiciary
C) government
D) armed forces

31The process by which beliefs and value are transferred from one generation to another is known as political
A) socialization
B)culture
C)Training
D)decentralization

32) which of the following constitutes a political sovereignty in a democratic system? The
A) electorate
B) executive
C) the politician
D)The people

33) The sovereignty of a state is determined?
A)economic and legal aspect
B)social and political aspect
C)political and legal aspect
D) economic and political aspect

34)membership of a society is
A) reserved
B)voluntary
C) mandatory
D)honorary

35)A human community that is usually cohensive and homogenous is a
A) state
B) kinship
C) nation
D) clan

POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
An ideology is a system of ideas carefully put together to explain and justify a prevailing social reality or a proposed one

Types of ideology

A) COMMUNALISM: this is a the oldest of all political ideology, probably as human community itself. It is a system in which people come together to harness their resources for the benefit of everyone. The ideology is base on the fact dat no man is an island and no one can survive on their own. So this system adopts Co operation and collectiveness...whereby the pull their resources together for public benefits. The founding fathers of COMMUNALISM is JULIUS NYERERE OF TANZANIA.

FEATURES
1)Collective ownership
2)Self government: issues are public discussed and solved
3)General participation in the community
4)Co-operation of full citizens
5)practised in small homogenous states

B) COMMUNISM: This is a creation of the German philosopher Karl Marx in the 19th century in which the community through common ownership collectively own the means of production. North Korea and north Vietnam practice this system

C)SOCIALISM
This is a socio-political and economic system of government in which the state owns, control the means of production exchange and distribution of goods and services.the main aim of socialism is to ensure equal distribution of wealth. RUSSIA is the first country to embrace socialism founder of SOCIALISM is Karl Marx frm Germany

D)CAPITALISM :This is the socio-political economic systems in which he means of production, exchange and distribution of goods and services is being concentration in the of private hands

E)FEUDALISM is the identification of landed property with sovereignty

F)FASCISM: This is the form of government headed by a dictactor who has absolute control of all the activities in the state and personal liberties are denied for example Italy under benito mussolini

G)NAZISM: This the form of government juts fascism the government has total control over the social, political, and economic activities of the state's with fundamental right being denied. Navistar Germany under Adolf Hitler

H)TOTALITARIANISM: this is the form of government in which the state has absolute control or everything including all aspects of citizens life