Chapter 6 Flashcards
True or False: OVER HALF THE WORLD’S POPULATION STILL LIVES IN SOCIETIES DEFINED AS EITHER “PARTLY FREE”, OR “NOT FREE”
True
The following refers to what? A political regime that is controlled by a small group of individuals who exercise power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public.
Nondemocratic regime
True or False: Nondemocratic regimes CANNOT exercise power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public
False, Nondemocratic regimes can DEFINITELY exercise power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public
True or False: Authoritarianism is synonymous with Nondemocratic regimes
True
What serves as a catch all statement for all NDR’s that are not considered “Totalitarian”?
Authoritatisnism
List four examples of authoritarianism
- Autocracy
- Oligarchy
- Dictatorship
- Tyranny
The following refers to what?
_____ is a form of non-democratic rule with a highly centralized state and a regime with a well-defined ideology that seeks to transform and fuse the institutions of state, society, and the economy.
Totalitarianism
Which countries are less likely to be democratic and why?
Countries in poverty because they are not self-reliant.
Which countries are more likely to be unequal?
Countries in poverty
No middle class = what?
No democracy
How do elites protect their economic power?
Through repression
What do elites most value?
Their economic power
The existence of natural resources acts as a barrier to democratic development refers to what?
Resource Trap
If there isn’t a need for taxes, is the public’s input required?
No, there are no trade offs
What do elites like to stunt?
Modernization
What is theoretically essential to democracy?
A civil society
The following refers to what? The elites and established institutions do not fully represent the will of the people and a new movement, free from ideology and often led by a charismatic leader, can usher in a new order.
Populism
Can civil society exist in nondemocratic regimes?
Yes
These groups call themselves, civil societies, become nondemocratic merely seeking to replace the current system. What are they?
Nondemocratic regimes
Compelling individuals by threatening harm or their lives or livelihoods refers to what?
Coercion
Which process refers to when individuals outside of an organization are brought into a beneficial relationship with it, making them dependent on the regime for certain rewards?
Co-optation
State sanctioning of organizations is known as what?
Corportatism
Are corporatist states TRULY independent?
No
The following refers to what? The promotion of the image of a leader not merely as a political figure but as someone who embodies the spirit of the nation, possesses endowments of wisdom and strength far beyond those of the average individual, and is thus portrayed in a quasi-religious manner as all-wise, all-seeing, all-knowing.
Personality cult
