Comparative Politics Review

Government system which constricts the rights and privacy of its citizens.  This type of rule is based on some type of IDEOLOGY (ex. Fascism, Nazism, Communism)

• Authoritarian
• Soverignty
• Totalitarianism
• Democracy

A government or state ruled by religious authority. Legal system based on religious law.  

• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Theocracy
• Theology

control by force with absence of strong constitutional traditional influence. Military is key role when the civil government breaks down. 

• State Rule
• Rule of Law
• Nationalism
• Military Rule

Political power concentrated in a leader or small elite group.  Rules demand absolute obedience by the ruled.  Small elite with large powers. 

• Theocracy
• Authoritarian Regime
• Illiberal Democracy
• Military Rule

A person who wishes to enact rapid political change to revert to a value system from the past would be considered a

• radical

• liberal

• conservative

• reactionary

In terms of political attitude, a liberal is one who

• believes gradual, transformational change should occur

• wants to see immediate change, even if violence is necessary

• wishes to preserve the status quo

• values liberty as a higher priority than equality

The key difference between ethnic conflict and national conflict is that ethnic conflict

• involves racial equality; national conflict involves economic inequality.

• involves cultural goals; national conflict involves political goals.

• involves fundamentalism; national conflict is a clash between liberalism and conservatism.

• occurs between ethnic groups to achieve political or economic goals; national conflict involves one or more groups striving for sovereignty.

• is small-scale and uses guerrilla and terrorist activity; national conflict involves militaries from different states going to war.

Ethnic identity or ethnicity is a

• racial makeup of a nation.

• common language and location that unites a state.

• set of institutions that bind people together through common culture.

• set of institutions that bind people together around common political aspirations.

• decision by certain governments to place people into social hierarchies.

A societal explanation for why conflicts occur would argue that conflict emerges

• due to the number of ethnic groups in the society and their degree of integration or polarization.

• due to the struggles over resources between groups.

• due to levels of poverty and inequality.

• due to a weak state with little capacity or autonomy.

• in nondemocratic states that repress their population.

Pride in one’s people and the belief that they have their own sovereign destiny that is separate from others is called

• ethnicism.

• fascism.

• fundamentalism.

• patriotism.

• nationalism