Issues in India
According to the Adeney and Wyatt reading, which Indian Prime Minister suspended the democratic process from 1975-1977?
Indira Gandhi
What faction within the Pakistani political process is hindering democracy in the country?
The Military of Pakistan
Where has democracy consolidated inside Sri Lanka?
The Central Highlands (The Sinhala Highlands)
What insurgent group had clashed with the Nepalese government during the course of the 1990's and the early 2000's over minority rights?
Maoists
What three states are used to analyze the Structure-Agency Dichotomy in the reading?
India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
According to the reading, the authors argue that the contribution of this was crucial to the democratization of India?
Political Parties
What group failed to consolidate power after the Pakistani partition of India?
The Muslim League
Which ethnolinguistic minority faces discrimination in Sri Lanka?
The Tamils
Under the Panchayat system, where does power ultimately reside in Nepal?
The King
What group does theory concentrate on to have a decisive impact on democratic outcomes?
Political Elites
The transition to democracy in India was maintained by a compromise between who?
The elites
What economic power class leftover from the British colonial period did elites in Pakistan reject the Muslim League in favor of?
Landlords
What was the first political party established after Sri Lankan independence was assured in 1947?
The United National Party
While ethnic, religious, and linguistic differences are factors that play into the prevention of a Nepalese national identity, what is the largest detriment to the establishment of a national identity?
The caste system enforced by the elites
According to the readings, which approach to analyzing democratization "posses no predictive power" due to its analysis being confined to individual cases rather than generalized comparisons?
Agency-Centered Approach
What linguistic group was a majority of the population (55%) of Pakistan, but failed to achieve dominance in the military, bureaucracy, politics, or business.
Bengali Speakers
Like India, Sri Lanka operates under which type of political system?
Majoritarian
To navigate around the failures of legal institutions in Nepal, in the early 2000's to combat insurgents or sympathizers of terrorists, the Nepalese government created emergency laws such as what?
What theory is pessimistic about democratization being possible in all situations?
Class-based theories
What party became the natural home home of Muslims outside of Kashmir after independence?
The Congress Party
What was Pakistan's biggest hurdle to democracy, barring corruption and the military?
Lack of elite consensus
What year was Sinhala made the official language, which further limited employment and other opportunities for Tamil speakers?
1956
What do political scholars call the phenomenon of marginal institutional change proceeding based on deeper continuity in Nepal?
Path dependency
What accounts of elites changing structures to facilitate or hinder the inclusion of particular groups, a process that can also be referred to as...
Inclusion or exclusion