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6. Why is Linz' example of Allende's exacerbation of social conflict in Chile undermined?

  • presidents before Allende 'actually bolstered centrist, moderating tendencies'
  • it is presented in a partisan way

7. Who says that there must be sufficient social organisation and social capital for a society to have a revolution and times of crisis can make the collective action problem easier to solve?

  • Huntington
  • Coleman
  • Putnam
  • Lipset

8. Who thinks that democracy became popular for macrosociological reasons of modernization and rising standards of education?

  • Lewis
  • Lipset
  • Lijphart
  • Lamb

9. Which pair say 'economic crises represent one of the most common threats to democratic stability'?

  • Linz and Diamond
  • Cheibub and Ruby
  • Sartori and Gold
  • Huntington and Emerald

10. What percentage of the world's states were semi-presidential in 2002?

  • 6
  • 22
  • 14
  • 3

11. Who says that there is insufficient evidence to make the claim the cohabitation is perilous under semi-pres' and that Niger is the only country where cohab has ever been directly responsible for the collapse of democracy?

  • Sartori
  • Shugart
  • Elgie
  • Pasquino

12. Who says 'the more well-to-do a nation, the greater the chances that it will sustain democracy'?

  • Lipset
  • Lijphart
  • Lewis
  • Lamb

13. How many semi-presidential states were there in 1946?

  • 6
  • 22
  • 3
  • 14

14. What is the curse of natural resources?

  • people can be continually bought off and economic development stagnates since there is no need to improve efficiency
  • oil rich countries can be exploited by the west

15. How many wars have been fought between democracies and non-democracies between 1816 and 1991?

  • 112
  • 198
  • 155
  • 164

16. Which of the following is not an unconsolidated germinal democracy with temporarily slipped back into authoritarianism?

  • Spain
  • Vietnam
  • Korea
  • Portugal

17. Which of the following is not a critique of Huntington's waves of democracy analysis presented by Doorenspleet?

  • it ignores the inclusivity dimension (Dahl's criteria for democracy)
  • it doesn't account for level of democratic participation
  • methodological: the number of states in the world changes to using a percentage is misleading
  • conceptual: it fails to provide a clear and meaningful distinction between democratic and nondemocratic regimes

18. Who says the 'shared power but unequal legitimacy and accountability structure theoretically predictable and empirically verifiable tensions into the semi-pres type'?

  • Sartori
  • Smith
  • Skach
  • Shugart

19. After what year was democracy the most common system globally?

  • 1945
  • 1984
  • 1921
  • 1990

20. What, according to Huntington is a wave of democratization?

  • a group of transitions from nondemocratic to democratic regimes that occur within a period of time that significantly outnumber transitions in the opposite direction during that period of time
  • a period in which democracy is consolidated across the majority of democratic regimes