WorksheetsPSC 343 - Unit 1 Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
What are the key characteristics of a nation?
Shared culture
Homeland
Monopoly on violence
Permanent Population
Desire to control territory
What are the characteristics of a state?
Territory
Population
Ruling institutions
Federalism
What is a regime?
A non-democratic form of rule
The rules that determine who influences the choice of leaders and policies
A group of people who make and implement policies
A political unit in the international system
The Biden Administration is an example of a...
Government
Regime
State
Nation
What does the "free" mean in "free and fair" elections?
Voters can genuinely express their preferences
Universal adult suffrage
Candidates compete on a level playing field
It doesn't cost anything to vote
An ultranationalist, violent regime where the government controls all industry and commerce and represses all opposition...
Majoritarian
Authoritarian
Maximalist
Fascist
A regime where the executive achieved power through any means other than free and fair elections...
Democracy
Typology
Authoritarian
Philosophy
A regime where the executive achieved power through free and fair elections but changed the rules such that electoral competition was limited
Authoritarian
Democracy
Demography
Typology
What should we replace "nation" with in this headline to make it more accurate?
Nothing. Japan is a nation because most of its people have a shared culture and homeland
State or country, because Japan is not a nation.
Nation-state, because most Japanese share a similar culture and they have control over their homeland
A coup is an illegal seizure of power by __________
The leader
The military
Regime insiders
A foreign government
What kind of typology focuses on the characteristics of the regime -- such as the group from which its leaders originate -- and does not differentiate levels of authoritarianism?
Continuous
Computational
Numerical
Categorical
What is the second most common way for authoritarian regimes to gain power?
Coup
Authoritarianization
Insurgency
Waves
What is democratic backsliding?
When a leader comes to power through free and fair elections and then seizes all control
When democratic practices erode within a democracy
Any movement away from full democracy
When several countries experience declines in democracy at the same time
Because we define authoritarianism by what it is not rather than what it is we call it a ...
Unidentified category
Lagging concept
Useless category
Residual category
How many waves of autocratization do Luhrmann and Lindberg identify?
One
Fifteen
Three
Four
The current wave of autocratization is different because there are fewer coups and more of what?
Personalization
Authoritarianization
Insurgencies
Foreign invasions
Regimes ruled by leaders who wear a military uniform are always considered military dictatorships.
True
False
When the dictator has a political party, it is most definitely a dominant-party regime.
True
False
In Vietnam, the Communist party controls access to leadership and all policies. No other parties are allowed. How would Frantz classify this case?
Personalist
Monarchy
Military
Dominant-party
Hungary under Viktor Orban is an example of which of the following?
Democratic backsliding
Autocratization
Authoritarianization
Autogolpe
