7. Two political problems for authoritarian leaders are:
a. authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
b. democracies and western leaders.
c. religion and culture.
d. opposition powers and authoritarian laws.
rulers must address.
Topic: Authoritarian Politics
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
8. Which of the following is not a contrast between a democracy and an authoritarian
regime?
a. Chief executives in democracies do not worry about military officers or cabinet
officials seizing control through violent and unconstitutional means.
b. Citizens in a democracy can vote their leaders out-of-office.
c. Democracies avoid mass uprisings by keeping the public supportive and acquiescent.
d. Democracies encourage civil and political liberties.
rulers must address.
Topic: Authoritarian Politics
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
9. One level of repression is:
a. limiting civil liberties.
b. allowing free elections.
c. allowing the freedom of speech.
d. limiting time spent in the military.
rulers must address.
Topic: Authoritarian Politics
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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10. Monarchies differ from other types of authoritarian regimes by:
a. having a single person as ruler.
b. using traditional practices as a justification for rule.
c. using secret police to control dissent.
d. using oil resources to buy support.
manage the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
11. Since 1980, the number of monarchies has:
a. declined faster than the number of military regimes.
b. remained about the same.
c. increased more than any other type of authoritarian regime.
d. declined faster than the number of personalist regimes.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
12. Military regimes differ from other types of authoritarian regimes by:
a. holding managed elections to prove that citizens support their rule.
b. coming to power through coups d’état and using martial law to remain in power.
c. pursuing policies favorable to businesses.
d. coming to power through coups d’état and holding managed elections to prove that
citizens support their rule.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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13. Authoritarian regimes were most numerous:
a. between World War I and World War II.
b. from the beginning of the Cold War to the 1980s.
c. from the 1980s to 2000.
d. from 2000 to 2015.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
14. High-ranking members of the ruling party select the country’s leader in ___________.
a. military regimes
b. monarchies
c. personalist regimes
d. one-party regimes
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
15. If you were living in Cambodia, your leadership would come from:
a. a military regime that allows single-party elections.
b. a ruling monarchy.
c. one-party regime that allows multi-party elections.
d. one-party regime that does not allow multi-party elections.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
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16. If you were living in China, your leadership would come from:
a. a military regime that allows single-party elections.
b. a ruling monarchy.
c. one-party regime that allows multi-party elections.
d. one-party regime that does not allow multi-party elections.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
17. One-party regimes handle the problem of power-sharing through:
a. committees, special benefits, and rules of transitions from one leader to another.
b. juntas, bribery, and curtailment of civil liberties.
c. committees, support within society, and elections.
d. traditional family rule, special benefits, and military power.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
18. With Personalist Rule, the leader of the country:
a. attempts to know his or her constituents personally.
b. only appoints officials that he or she knows personally.
c. accumulates all power within his or her hands and controls policymaking.
d. shares personal power as an opportunity to build a legacy.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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19. Personalist rule can emerge from:
a. monarchy.
b. one-party rule.
c. military rule.
d. any of the previous types.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
20. Personalist rulers often have:
a. strong policy power and strong organizational constraints.
b. strong policy power but loose organizational constraints.
c. weak policy power but strong organizational constraints.
d. weak policy power and weak organizational constraints.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
21. Which of the following is NOT a reason authoritarian regimes allow elections in which
several political parties can compete?
a. Such elections channel discontent with the regime onto a playing field in which the
regime establishes the rules.
b. Such elections allow the regime to claim it rules with the support of the people.
c. Allowing opposition candidates to occasionally win control over important political
offices diffuses discontent.
d. Dividing opponents of the regime into those who participate in the elections and those
who refuse to do so because the elections are a sham.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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22. If you were the leader of an opposition party in an authoritarian regime, which of the
following would you NOT have to consider?
a. Whether to offer candidates for office, knowing that the rules are rigged in favor of
the ruling political party.
b. Whether to offer candidates, knowing that if your party wins a majority of seats it
does not have enough candidates with legislative skills.
c. Whether to offer candidates, knowing that if your party loses badly you could
strengthen claims that the ruling party has the support of the people.
d. Whether to offer candidates, knowing that repeated losses in rigged elections can
demoralize your party members.
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
23. If you were the leader of the dominant party of an authoritarian regime that allows multi-
party elections, and were planning for an upcoming presidential election, you would not
consider:
a. what the most effective ways of ensuring a ruling party victory are.
b. which opposition candidates should be allowed to run and which should be
disqualified.
c. in the highly unlikely event that the opposition candidate wins the most votes, if you
should concede office or manipulate the vote to show that you won.
d. whether to cancel the election or not.
manage the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
24. Between 1990 and 2010, the president of Zimbabwe was __________.
a. Hugo Chávez
b. Jonathan Goodluck
c. Robert Mugabe
d. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
the problems of authoritarian power sharing and authoritarian control.
Topic: Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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25. Political Scientists divide their explanations about the persistence of authoritarian
regimes into the ____________ and ____________ categories.
a. international and domestic
b. rule of law and constitutional
c. democracy and dictatorship
d. hostile and friendly
Middle East and North Africa.
Topic: Explaining Authoritarian Persistence
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
26. Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way suggest competitive authoritarian regimes are likely to
democratize when:
a. they are threatened militarily by Western democracies.
b. their leaders are denied passports to Western democracies.
c. they have strong trade, travel, communication, and government ties with Western
democracies.
d. they are pressured by the United Nations to become more democratic.
Middle East and North Africa.
Topic: Explaining Authoritarian Persistence
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
27. Scholars who believe Islam is the main obstacle to democracy in the Middle East argue
that Islam does not reject:
a. acceptance of pluralism.
b. acceptance of competition among ideas.
c. acceptance of terror as a legitimate means of politics.
d. acceptance of equality of rights for all.
Middle East and North Africa.
Topic: Explaining Authoritarian Persistence
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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