state strength

Question 1

Columbia

Answer 1

2001- AUC had 30k men at its disposal and called for the ‘refounding of the country’
2002- they fixed who got elected in certain area
- 50% of the budget managed by parliamentary peasants and mayors had to affiliate to new political party
- no centralisation- only public services in the capital

Question 2

Zimbabwe

Answer 2

• 2008 their economy was 1/2 of what it had been post independence
  jan 2010- deterioration in health system meant 4.3k deaths that were cholera related
  Mugabe eliminated political opponents and violently kept control after independence
  extractive economic instiutions- regulation on prices, state-run industries
  1995 fraudulent election - ZANU-PF had 89% of vote, yet in 2000 this was only 49% but held on to power through violence and repression

Question 3

Roosevelt

Answer 3

tried to pack SC and implement 70 year age limit. social security act and national labours act were therefore ruled constitutional. integral to the latter act was the banning of company unions
Roosevelt had 57% of popular vote and then re-elected with 61%

Question 4

legacy of Chartism

Answer 4

1864- national reform union founded after chartism disintegrated
1865- reform league founded
1866- pro-reform riots in Hyde park
second reform act 1867
1870- free universal education through the education act

Question 5

low income countries and frequency of war

Answer 5

15-20 times more likely

Question 6

India SC

Answer 6

60 thousand cases backlogged

Question 7

Ugandan deaths through wars and presidential violence

Answer 7

300k 1971-8 and Otebe had the same no. killed when he replaced him

Question 8

Russian famine

Answer 8

6 million deaths

Question 9

from 1928- Russian finances

Answer 9

national income grew by 6% a year but in 1970s this stopped

Question 10

Russian laws on jobs

Answer 10

unauthorised absence/ idling on job was a criminal offence punished by 6 months hard labour and 25% pay cut. 36 million (1/3 of population) were found guilty

Question 11

how many attempts in Somalia since 1991 to establish a government?

Answer 11

14

Question 12

1969 military coup- Somalia

Answer 12

army created revolutionary council and banned political parties, abolished the national assembly, suspended the constitution, established a socialist dictatorship

Question 13

2000 onwards Somalia

Answer 13

Hassan elected through peace talks buut other leaders continued to fight
2002 transitional government signed new cease fire after 14th round of peace talks but not sworn in until 2004
2011- Al Shabab controlled southern and central Somalia and parts of capital and enforced harsh Sharia law + claim links toAl Quaida
now designated a terrorist country by multiple states eg Aus and Canada
transitional government is restricted to small enclave in the capital