Chap 7+8 Definitions

Question 1

Authoritarianism

Answer 1

Control and repression plus economic performance and limited institutionalisation

Question 2

Civil war

Answer 2

Prolonged violent conflict within a country

Question 3

Democratisation

Answer 3

Replacement of dictatorship with democracy

Question 4

Despotism

Answer 4

Personalistic, non-ideological, and arbitrary dictatorships

Question 5

Dictatorship

Answer 5

Government by non-elected, self-appointed rulers

Question 6

Revolution

Answer 6

Regime change by violent means, which can produce a civil war

Question 7

Totalitarianism

Answer 7

All-encompassing regime, distinctively using ideology and terror

Question 8

Transition

Answer 8

Democratisation without major violence by means of negotiations between incumbent authoritarians and the opposition

Question 9

Civic Culture

Answer 9

Values of trust, cooperation, and engagement in collective activities

Question 10

Consolidation

Answer 10

A situation in which democracy is, for both winners and losers, “the only game in town”

Question 11

Democracy

Answer 11

Government by means of freedom and elections

Question 12

Democratic peace

Answer 12

Democracies are less inclined to engage in wars than dictatorships

Question 13

Rule of law

Answer 13

Property rights, guarantees of contracts, and an independent judiciary