6. What is the intermediate factor between decentralization and its effect on ethnic conflict and secessionism?
the growth of regional parties
social isolation
social exclusion
7. Who finds that federal regimes generally do better than unitary regimes in accommodating ethnic armed rebellion, minority discrimination and grievances?
Huntington
Bermeo
Hale
Bunce
8. Wibbels finds that federal economies in developing systems fair worse than their unitary counterparts, increasing the budget deficits by what percent of expenditure?
1.5
2.8
6.2
3.4
9. Who said 'federal systems that have persisted do so not because they have eliminated conflict but because they have managed it'?
Volt
Watt
Bulb
Shock
10. Who estimates that they assimilation of ethnic groups requires between 300 and 700 years?
Deutsch
Francais
Espana
11. Which of the following is not a factor in the success of failure to peace preserve in a federal country?
regionally concentrated ethnic groups
presence of religious sectors
exclusion from government
interregional inequality
12. Which is not one of the three countries Stepan says will never become stable democracies without 'workable federal systems' due to high levels of ethnic and linguistic diversity?
Russia
Burma
China
Indonesia
13. Who finds that the race to the bottom in federal systems is not found in undercutting other states but rather in a failure to adjust for inflation unless other states do the same?
Bakke and Wibbels
Volden
Bermeo
Hale
14. Who notes that violence is more likely in India when Muslim minorities were not electorally valuable for Hindu majorities?
Venus
Wilkinson
Gilette
Bic
15. What is the definition of a core ethnofederal region?
contains either an outright majority of the population or makes up 20% more of the population than the second largest region
higher density of one ethnic group than all other regions
16. Who says that what determines whether a state is created as federal or unitary is whether the constituent states of a potential federation have high levels of what Michael Mann calls 'infrastructural capacity'?
Ziblatt
Riker
Linz
Cheibub
17. Who says that 'in the absence of federalism, geographically concentrated minorities seem less prone to either want to leave the state or... to succeed in doing so'?
Hale
Huntington
Bunce
Bermeo
18. Who says ' Federalization is not a pancea and federalism is no guarantee or peace - or anything else'?
Brancati
Schlick
Bermeo
Hale
19. To who does the theory of Imagined Communities belong?
Shugart
Anderson
Bermeo
Brancati
20. All ethnofederations that have collapsed have possessed core ethnic regions, whereas no ethnofederation lacking a core ethnic region has collapsed. True or false?
