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

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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?

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

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

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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?

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

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

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8. Which of the following claims is valid?

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

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

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

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

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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?

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

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15. Which of the following is true?

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