UNIVERSITY
OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA
DEPARTMENT
OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION 2014/2015 ACADEMY
SESSION
COURSE TITLE: POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR
COURSE CODE: POL. SC. 301
TIME ALLOWED: 3HRS
Instruction: Answer three questions including No. 1
1.
One of the disturbing issues in the study of
Political Behaviour as a field of study is the decline and relegation of the
study of public opinion and voting behaviour to the backwaters of political
science in Nigeria. Account for the reasons of this decline and advance
possible ways of making it regain its pride of place and relevance in political
science studies?
2.
Examine the interface and the
neuro-psychological impetus for the actions of individuals and the activities
of groups towards he political systems.
3.
Argue out a fine line of difference and
convergence across political culture, civic culture, and cultural
secularization.
4.
Ideologies are drives of political behaviour
in their different manifestations. With the aid of adequate case studies,
discuss the ideologies that you have been taught exhaustively.
5.
The theory of relative deprivation assume
among other things that violence occurs when the want-get gap becomes
intolerable. How do we determine the intolerability of want-get gap? Discuss
with a case of your choice.
6.
The Salient of identity politics defined in
the context of ethnicity and religion has continued to intensify its political
relevance in the understanding and interpretation of Nigerian politics, yet; a
great deal of effort is committed in combating it. Discuss.
DEPARTMENT
OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY
OF NIGERIA
Second Semester
Examination 2013/2014 Session
Course Code: Pol. Sc.
301
Course Title: Political Behaviour
Time Allowed: 3 hours
Instruction: Answer
Either of the Questions
3. The center point
of the traditionalist’s argument is not whether behaviouralism has important
contributions to make in the study of political phenomena; what they question
is, whether the behavioural approach is adequate in itself for an understanding
of politics. Discuss these contributions. What aspects of the traditionalist’s
argument should be cast away, retained or modified by Political Scientists in
order to make the empirical component Political Science more scientific.
4. Democratic-Elitism
is the product of an attempt to ensure compatibility between elite rule and
democratic government. Discuss with particular reference to the contributions
of Karl Manheim, Schumpeter and Raymond Aaron.
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