Class - Chap 3

Question 1

What is the EVL game?

Answer 1

Exit, voice, loyalty

Question 2

In what situation does the choice of one actor depend on those made by other actors?

Answer 2

A Strategic Situation

Question 3

What is meant by ration in EVL?

Answer 3

Player does what she believes is in her best interest given what she knows at the time of choosing

Question 4

What event gave East Germans an exit strategy in 1989 for the first time since the Berlin Wall was constructed?

Answer 4

The opening of the Hungarian border with Austria

Question 5

What group speaks in a soft voice but exercises tremendous power over the state?

Answer 5

CAPITALISTS.

• They possess credible exit threats
• State dependent on them for jobs, economic growth and tax revenue
• Marxist view of the state

Question 6

What does the EVL method suggest about the different treatment of US Financial and Automotive sectors?

Answer 6

• Govt far more supportive of Financial sector - went to New York to see them.
• Financial sector had more of a credible exit threat
• Automotive sector, while manufacturing outside the US, requires a number of fixed assets to be in place in the country - far less of an exit strategy

Question 7

What view of democracy classifies political regimes in regard to the outcomes that they produce?

Answer 7

A SUBSTANTIVE VIEW OF DEMOCRACY

Question 8

Who cautioned scholars against employing a substantive view of democracy?

Answer 8

DAHL

Question 9

What two dimensions did Dahl conceptualise democracy around?

Answer 9

• CONTESTATION

- INCLUSION

Question 10

What does contestation refer to?

Answer 10

The extent to which citizens are free to organise themselves into competing blocs in order to press for POLICIES and OUTCOMES they desire.
Largely concerned with the PROCEDURES of democratic competition

Question 11

How would the USSR be viewed in terms of contestation and inclusion?

Answer 11

• High levels of inclusion - everyone allowed to vote and participate
• Low level of contestation - only one party

Question 12

How did Dahl refer to regimes with high levels of contestation and inclusion?

Answer 12

POLYARCHY

• An ideal type of democracy with high levels of contestation and inclusion

Question 13

Which organisation provides an annual measure of “global freedom” for countries around the world?

Answer 13

Freedom House

Though not technically a measure of demo, many Pol Scientists use it as such