Chapter 7 Quiz

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1. Which of the following would be a totalitarian regime?

a. Chile under Pinochet correct incorrect

b. North Korea correct incorrect

c. Argentina's dictatorships in the 1970s correct incorrect

d. Egypt under Mubarak correct incorrect

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2. Which of the following characteristics might be a key feature of a regime that is authoritarian, but not necessarily totalitarian?

a. There are no political prisoners. correct incorrect

b. Police have the power to arrest citizens suspected of committing crimes. correct incorrect

c. Elections are not held or are deeply flawed and fraudulent. correct incorrect

d. The state's power has no limits. correct incorrect

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3. Which of the following labels would some political scientists ascribe to the regime of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela?

a. Hybrid regime correct incorrect

b. Competitive-authoritarian regime correct incorrect

c. Electoral authoritarian regime correct incorrect

d. All of the above correct incorrect

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4. Which of the following characteristics would qualify a regime as totalitarian?

a. An authoritarian culture correct incorrect

b. Lack of competitive elections correct incorrect

c. A police state that aims to monitor and control all speech correct incorrect

d. One party tends to win most of the elections correct incorrect

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5. A clique of individuals who dominate a single political party governs a state. They hold elections every few years, but the resources of the state give them huge advantages, and they use a variety of formal and informal techniques to ensure that they virtually always win these elections. Such a regime would be an example of which of the following?

a. Totalitarianism correct incorrect

b. Personalistic dictatorship correct incorrect

c. Competitive authoritarian regime correct incorrect

d. Bureaucratic authoritarian regime correct incorrect

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6. Which of the following contemporary states could arguably be considered an authoritarian regime?

a. France correct incorrect

b. Egypt correct incorrect

c. Nigeria correct incorrect

d. None of the above correct incorrect

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7. Could any of the following states be considered a "Hybrid" or "competitive authoritarian" regime?

a. Canada correct incorrect

b. Brazil correct incorrect

c. Russia correct incorrect

d. India correct incorrect

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8. Which of the following claims is valid?

a. Democratic breakdown could not yield an authoritarian regime but only a hybrid one. correct incorrect

b. Democratic breakdown can yield either an authoritarian or a hybrid regime. correct incorrect

c. Democratic breakdown could not yield a hybrid regime but only a fully authoritarian one. correct incorrect

d. None of these claims is valid. correct incorrect

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9. Which of the following would be the clearest example of a personalist regime?

a. Brazil under military rule in the 1970s correct incorrect

b. Argentina under Jorge Videla in the 1970s correct incorrect

c. The former Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko in the 1970s to the 1990s correct incorrect

d. Mexico under the PRI correct incorrect

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10. Which of the following countries experienced dramatic democratic breakdown in the first half of the twentieth century?

a. Germany correct incorrect

b. China correct incorrect

c. Ottoman Empire correct incorrect

d. Cameroon correct incorrect

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11. Why might we want to distinguish between democratic breakdown and authoritarian persistence?

a. They may have different causes correct incorrect

b. The processes are conceptually distinct correct incorrect

c. They are not both visible in all of the same cases correct incorrect

d. All of the above correct incorrect

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12. Why might it be useful to distinguish between regime types and processes of transition in general?

a. They are conceptually distinct. correct incorrect

b. They almost certainly have different causes. correct incorrect

c. Both a and b correct incorrect

d. This is a trick question: today's political scientists do not draw this distinction. correct incorrect

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13. Which of the following theories attempts to explain authoritarianism as a function of institutional arrangements and coalitions established at critical junctures in the past?

a. Political Cultural Theories correct incorrect

b. Historical Institutionalist theories correct incorrect

c. Modernization Theory correct incorrect

d. All theories of authoritarianism include this. correct incorrect

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14. What would a political scientist say you should do with respect to data?

a. If the data don't support your theory, ignore them correct incorrect

b. Pick the data that give your thesis the support, and downplay the rest correct incorrect

c. Take all relevant data into account, and try to apply theory that can best account for it correct incorrect

d. Theory generation and data are two distinct things. Focus on the theories. correct incorrect

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15. Which of the following is true?

a. Authoritarian rule is almost never found in weak states. correct incorrect

b. Totalitarian rule is almost never found in strong states. correct incorrect

c. All authoritarian regimes are totalitarian. correct incorrect

d. All totalitarian regimes are authoritarian. correct incorrect