The State
The definition of a "state"
What is: a political-legal unit with sovereignty over a particular geographic territory and the population that resides in that territory.
The system of governance within the United States vs. the United Kingdom.
What is presidential vs. parliamentary system?
China under Mao Zedong was an example of this type of non-democratic regime.
What is a totalitarian regime?
The amount of "waves" of democratization there have been.
What is three?
The time and location of the midterm.
Wednesday at 10am in Math 100.
This is: a subjective feeling of membership in a nation.
What is: nationalism?
The three keys to a democracy:
What are: Accountability; Contestation; Participation.
This style of regime stays in power through the use of coercion, not ideology.
What is authoritarian regime?
According to Samuels, these are the four major sources of pressure for regime change internationally.
Who are: The United States; The Soviet Union; The Catholic Church; the European Union
This campaign began in 1956 as a way to hear the people's open and honest opinion about the Mao regime.
What is the Hundred Flowers Campaign?
This was Madison's Dilemma
What is the trade off between limited government and effective government?
The two types of electoral systems often used in democracies for distributing seats.
Hint: They often are abbreviated.
What are: proportional representation (PR) and single-member districts (SMD)?
This is who the leader of any non-democratic regime is accountable to.
Who is the selectorate?
According to Samuels, these are the three domestic sources of regime change.
What are: Economic Changes; Military Coups; Civil Culture.
True or False: Elections are unique to democracy.
False: Non-democratic regimes do also have elections depending on the regime.
"Frequent and fair" elections are unique to democracies.
This is a cultural grouping of individuals who associate with each other based on a collectively held political identity.
What is a nation?
The difference between plurality rule and majority rule.
What is first-past-the-post vs. 50%+1.
Name the six types of non-democratic regimes with an example of each.
What are: Monarchy (Saudi Arabia); Single-Party Regime (China); Military Regime (Thailand); Oligarchy (Russia); Theocracy (Iran); Personalistic Regime (N. Korea)
The reason that China shifted from a totalitarian regime to an authoritarian one.
What is Mao Zedong's death.
Two major sources of regime change for the third wave of democratization.
What are: the Catholic Church becoming pro-democracy (1960s/1970s) and the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)
A state is called this when it loses it sovereignty over its territory, or it was never established to begin with.
What is an example of this?
What is a failed state?
Example: Somalia
One of the key distinctions between a presidential vs. parliamentary system.
What is: A presidential system has both separation of origin and survival; whereas a parliamentary system has neither separation of origin nor separation of survival.
The three distinctions between an authoritarian regime and a totalitarian regime.
What is their: Use of ideology; extent of coercive mobilization; degree of social and political pluralism allowed.
This theory suggests that democracy is simply the result of cultural changes that accompany economic growth.
What is modernization theory?
The two "methods" that comparative politics scholars can use to examine cases for causality.
What is method of agreement and method of difference?