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Questions

1. According to Svolik, what are the two problems authoritarian rulers must solve to stay in power? What does each mean? The failing at which problem led to the downfall of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu?

2. Pick four factors that affect a country's chance to democratize, and elaborate how each increases or decreases the chance.

3. What are the differences between procedural justice and social (outcome) justice? Give an example of each.

4. Select all the populist leaders covered in the lecture on populism.

Hugo Chavez

Mao Zedong

Jair Bolsonaro

Donald Triump

Winston Churchill

5. Select all the tactics that leaders may use to erode democracy covered by lecture.

The use of emergency power

The use of the legal system

Modifying electoral rule

Disabling checks and balances

6. Since around the year 2008, the share of democratic regimes has been declining.

true

false

7. According to lecture, in which wave of democratization did most Eastern European communist democratize?

wave 1

wave 2

wave 3

wave 4

8. Which of the following is NOT correct about multiculturalism?

A. When applied to immigration, it is the opposite of assimilation.

B. It holds that the state should be impartial and supportive to all cultural and religious practices.

C. Canada's multiculturalism is manifested in its relatively more open immigration policies.

D. According to lecture, multiculturalism should provide higher protection for a minority group's culture if the group's minority status is established voluntarily.

9. Which of the following versions of feminism believes that there are genuine differences that should to be recognized?

A. Liberal feminism

B. Radical feminism

C. Difference feminism

D. Eco-feminism

10. Postmodernism seeks to preserve universal values.

true or false

11. Which of the following ideologies is most skeptical of change?

A. Socialism

B. Conservatism

C. Liberalism

D. Fascism