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Psci 140 Essay

Satisfactory Essays

Spring 2012
PSCI 140 Democracies around the World
Final Exam Study Guide
Instructor: Satoshi Machida

Part I: Words Identification (Content of Important Articles) (40 points)

1. You have to be prepared so that you can explain the following words and concepts.

* Authoritarian states
---A small group of individuals exercise power
Government is not constitutionally responsible to the state
Public—little role in leadership selection
Individual freedom is restricted
May be institutionalized and legitimate * Totalitarian states
Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever …show more content…

what is the factor that renders Muslim countries less democratic?
Female subordination!
Sociological
Family broader society (culture of domination, intolerance, and dependency…)
Psychological
Good at making consensus, less comfortable with hierarchy and inequality, and more peaceful…
Demographic
Sex ratio-Mass stress for men, militant groups… * Bunce, “Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from the Post-Communist Experience.”
Factors affecting democratic transitions?
(a) Mass mobilization?
(b) Uncertainty?
(c) (Strategic implications of uncertainty?)
(d) The role of the military?
(e) Nationalist mobilization?

* Collier and Gunning, “Why Has Africa Grown Slowly.”
Policy or destiny?
Domestic or external?
2 × 2 matrix
Domestic destiny?
1. Tropical
2. Soil
3. Low population density
4. Natural endowment
Domestic policy?
1. Lack of democracy
2. A large public sector
3. Low quality public sector (corruption)
4. Excessive regulation (poor governance)
External destiny?
1. Distance from the coast lines (borders)
2. A narrow range of products
External policy?
1. Exchange rates
2. Trade terms

* Hoffman, “Clash of Globalizations.”
A paradigm
 World view !
Classical Realism (Kissinger)
“End of History”

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