Authoritarianism
This leaders toppled during the Arab Spring was famous for his extreme mood swings and plastic surgeries.
Who is Muammar Gaddafi?
This is the term given when democracy is reduced to the fact that whether or not a country is having elections
What is electoralism?
These two countries in western Europe achieved national unity relatively late, compared to the rest.
What is Germany and Italy?
Societies with high social capital tend to display these social attitudes.
What are social trust and reciprocity?
This is when a nation grants citizenship only to the people who are the offsprings of existing citizens.
What is jus sangre?
This leader has been ruling his country since 1994 and has been a strong ally of the Putin regime.
Who is Alexander Lukashenko?
This is the term when democracy is defined as whatever the majority of the population wishes, without any protections for minority rights
What is majoritarianism?
This was the first sector that transformed into modern factory production during the industrial age.
What is textile industry?
This was the name of the book that for the first time tried to measure the density of social networks in the US, UK, Germany, Italy and Mexico.
What is Civic Culture?
This term is in the title of Benedict Anderson's famous book on nationalism, and refers the constructed nature of modern day nation-states.
What is Imagined Communities?
This is when a global democratic wave faces a major backlash
What is a reverse democratic wave?
These are considered the "gatekeepers" of democracy.
What are political parties?
A large number of countries gained national independence during this historical era.
What is de-colonization?
In Almond & Verba's Civil Culture, citizens who are more concerned about their citizenship duties rather than their rights are called this.
What are subjects?
This is the author of Bowling Alone.
Who is Robert Putnam?
This was the military dictator of Spain who ruled the country from 1939 till his death in 1975.
Who is General Franco?
These states have access to massive revenue sources outside the taxes, therefore the taxation-representation link between the state and society is broken.
What are rentier states?
This group expanded its political rights and representation after the two world wars in the incomplete democracies of the West.
Who are women?
According to the World Values Map, this group of countries score the highest in both self expression values and secular/rational values.
What is Protestant Europe?
This is the first document in history that constrained the rights of a monarch.
What is Magna Carta
Fall of dictatorships in these three European countries in the 1970s started the Third Democratic Wave in the world.
What are Portugal, Spain and Greece?
This is when majority rule is curbed by numerous checks and balances, minorities are granted veto powers and the government operates mostly as a coalition of many interests.
What is consociationalism?
These regimes maintain their royal families, but at the same time have established rule of law and democratic regimes.
What are constitutional monarchies?
This is one of the most famous scholars on social capital and is the founder of the World Values Survey.
Who is Ronald Inglehart?
These are the general set of values observed in highly industrialized and affluent societies in the world.
What are post-material values?