- In a rent-seeking regime, the basic political arrangement is the exchange of __________ for _________.
Your answer:
votes; jobs
votes; money
political support; opportunities to make money
campaign contributions; political access
political support; scarce resources
- Which of the following is NOT important for establishing a rent-seeking regime [Hint: Check out the link to Online Selection 3):
Links to reference material:
Online Selection 3
Your answer:
networks of patron-client relations
government intervention into the economy
immoral government officials
rules that suppress journalists and other investigators
rules that create scarce resources
- Which of the following were elements of the dominant economic development model in the1960s:
Your answer:
A. unbalanced growth
B. import substitution industrialization
C. heavy taxation of agriculture
D. a and b
E. a, b, and c
- Which of the following was NOT offered by political scientists in the 1960s, to explain why developing countries, like Nigeria, could not be expected to be democracies:
Your answer:
For poor countries, economic development had to be a higher priority than democratic rule.
The states in developing countries were weak and might be overwhelmed by demands from civil society.
Developing country constitutions were very undemocratic
Developing countries had not yet met the socio-economic prerequisites to be democracies
For developing countries, resisting the threats of Communism was more important than promoting political participation.
- Which of the following explanations is NOT a part of the revised thinking of political scientists in the 1990s about political development in developing countries:
Your answer:
The end of the Cold War removes many of the justifications for maintaining an authoritarian regime.
Ethnic ties are now seen to undermine national identity.
Economic growth and political liberalization go hand in hand.
There are now more pathways seen to achieving democracy than previously thought.
- Which of the following is NOT associated with Benjamin Barber's notion of "McWorld":
Your answer:
the right to shop
the quest for international peace and stability
the spread of democracy
the homogenization of culture
a greater awareness of ecological interdependence
- Which of the following is NOT associated with Benjamin Barber's notion of "Jihad":
Your answer:
separatist movements, like the Basques in Spain
cultural turf battles
the spread of Islamic fundamentalism
a sense of community
ethnic conflicts, such as those in Nigeria
- Which of the following is identified by Gabriel Almond as a proponent of the argument that capitalism subverts democracy:
Your answer:
Joseph Schumpater
Karl Marx
Samuel Huntington
Robert Dahl
Milton Friedman
- Almond notes the "strong statistical association between GNP per capita and democratic institutions" as evidence to support the argument that:
Your answer:
democracy fosters capitalism
capitalism supports democracy
democracy subverts capitalism
capitalism subverts democracy
- The Annual Editions reading, "The Man in the Bagdad Cafe" describes Samuel Huntington theory that the world is splintering into _________ cultural regions or civilizations that will be increasingly in conflict with one another. [Hint: I'm looking for a number].
Your answer: