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From today's perspective, a paradox of Athenian democracy was
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Classical democracy
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Developmental models of democracy share
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A minimalist defintion of democracy focuses on
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The instrumental benefit of democracy refers to
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The process by which more countries transition from authoritarian to democratic regimes than the reverse within a specific time period is known as
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Democratization in Italy, Austria, and Korea
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In which region of the world did economically developing countries prove vulnerable to democratic backsliding?
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Military coups in countries including Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador occurred in the
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Huntington suggests the existence of a cyclical pattern in which countries alternate back and forth between democracy and authoritarianism such as seen in
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Robert Dahl's Polyarchy, his seven conditions for democracy, exemplify
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Externally-imposed democracies in the third wave have
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Modernization Theory posits
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Contrary to Modernization Theory, Przeworski et al. in "Modernization: Theories & Facts" found that
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Rapid economic growth, more than 5%/year, has been shown to
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Which of the following waves of democracy was approximately a century long?
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Which of the following helped promote the demise of the authoritarian regimes of the second wave?
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Our authors writing on the relationship between religious and philosophical beliefs and democracy suggest
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Successful democratization encouraging democratization in other countries is what Hungtington refers to as
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The second wave of democratization is most closely identified with
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According to Huntington, demonstration effects were most significant
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The American Revolution was a motivating factor in
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The Revolution of the Carnations that led to democratization in Portugal
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The decolonization of Africa led to
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Totalitarianism was found in the
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Which of the following institutions appear to strengthen new democracies?
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Which of the following is an example of Huntington's interrupted democracy, in which stable democracy is suspended for short period of time?
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While the Catholic Church historically aligned itself with the land-owning oligarchy and supported or tolerated authoritarian regimes, changes in the 1960s altered this position significantly, changes resulting in part from
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Hybrid regimes are characterized by
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According to Rummell, the biggest killer of the 20th century was
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As depicted in the video assigned, Among the Disappeared, the Khmer Rouge
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As disussed by Bell, the Chinese political system is currently
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Sinagpore's regime under Lee Kuan Yew is an example of what kind of regime?
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Lee Yuan Yew challenged the assumption that democracy is the best form of governance
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What type of authoritarian regime consolidates power in one individual?
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The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia as what kind of regime?
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Which of the following currently characterizes the majority of authoritarian regimes globally?
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A multi-party, non-democracy that holds elections in which the political leadership is highly unlikley to lose power is an example of what?
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According to Rummel, which of the following is needed in society to stop governments from killing arbitrarily or inducing or ignoring famine to the detriment of their own population?
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Which of the following did the narrator in Bloody Cartoons purchase in the market in Tehran? [Show Less]