3. During the Arab Spring, students:
a. used social media to express their desire for a government.
b. did not have access to social media.
c. used social media to bring down governments.
d. discouraged the use of social media because of fear of the government.
democracy.
Topic: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
4. What event prompted Belgium to move towards a formal government?
a. non-violent protests
b. expulsion from NATO
c. a poor bond rating
d. nation-wide strikes.
democracy.
Topic: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
5. _______________ democracy works best in small groups of people.
a. Popular
b. Direct
c. Representative
d. Populist
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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6. The classical definition of democracy was that democracy requires having:
a. citizens’ views represented by others.
b. citizens choose representatives by lottery.
c. citizens choose representatives by popular vote.
d. citizens participate directly in making laws that govern them.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
7. The author who defined a democracy as a state in which virtually all citizens are able to
vote for who will represent them in free, fair, and periodic elections is __________.
a. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
b. Aristotle
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. Joseph Schumpeter
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
8. According to Barrington Moore, Jr., democracy emerged first in European countries
where:
a. the middle class was weak and the working class large and strong.
b. the landed nobility was weak and the working class large and strong.
c. the middle class could work effectively with the landed nobility.
d. the middle class was strong and allied with lower classes.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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9. The author who suggested that the transition from autocracy to democratization
proceeded in three waves was:
a. Seymour Martin Lipset.
b. Max Weber.
c. Barrington Moore, Jr.
d. Samuel P. Huntington.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
10. The first “wave” of democratization:
a. originated in the American and French revolutions.
b. was set back by the French Revolution, which terrified middle classes in Europe.
c. originated after World War II.
d. resulted in democratic states throughout Europe.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
11. The second wave of democratization:
a. began in 1974.
b. originated in the Middle East.
c. was inaugurated by the defeat of fascism in World War II.
d. failed to win much support in newly independent countries in Africa.
e. failed to win much support in Latin America.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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12. In the 1950s and 1960s, many social scientists believed newly independent countries in
Africa and Asia:
a. had very little chance of becoming democracies.
b. that had been French colonies had the best chance of becoming democracies.
c. would be unable to overcome ethnic divisions.
d. had good prospects for democracy because of increasing education and urbanization.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
13. In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States:
a. consistently supported democratization in less-developed countries.
b. supported numerous dictators as long as they were sufficiently anticommunist.
c. consistently supported democratization in Latin America, but not Asia.
d. consistently supported democratization in Asia, but not Latin America.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
14. The third wave of democracy did not cause considerable change from authoritarian rule
to democracy in:
a. Asia.
b. Latin America.
c. the Middle East.
d. Eastern Europe.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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15. Which of the following is not an independent variable that might determine whether a
country is likely to make the transition to democracy?
a. whether the country is predominantly Muslim
b. the percentage of country’s population that is literate
c. how much of the country’s economy depends on oil revenues
d. the country’s climate
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
16. The number of countries ruled by authoritarian governments peaked between:
a. 1900 and 1920.
b. 1920 and 1940.
c. 1940 and 1960.
d. 1970 and 1980.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
17. The In-Depth study of Mauritius, Africa’s most successful democracy, attributes its
success in sustaining democracy to:
a. leadership, civic organizations, and homogeneous population.
b. leadership, civic organizations, and vibrant democracy.
c. homogenous population, well-educated population, and checks and balances.
d. vibrant civil society, inclusive political institutions, and checks and balance.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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18. The In-Depth study of Mauritius uses the __________ method of comparative analysis.
a. correlation
b. scatter diagram method
c. case study
d. survey method
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
19. An important international factor determining whether a country becomes democratic or
not is:
a. whether it belongs to the World Trade Organization.
b. whether it exports many products to the United States.
c. whether it receives economic aid from the World Bank.
d. the diffusion effect of democracy in countries surrounding it.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
20. The Comparative Political Analysis study “Does Diversity Undermine Democracy“
shows that:
a. the greater the level of ethnic diversity, the less likely a country is to be a democracy.
b. the greater the level of ethnic diversity, the more likely a country is to be a
democracy.
c. there is no relationship between diversity and level of democracy.
d. the level of diversity makes a difference for democracy in Africa but not in Asia.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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21. The Comparative Political Analysis study “Does Diversity Undermine Democracy?”
uses:
a. the case study method.
b. the comparative cases method.
c. the statistical method with many cases.
d. the scatter diagram method.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
22. The use of control variables for testing the relationship between diversity and democracy:
a. rules out other independent variables that might be affecting the level of democracy.
b. examines the relationship between the control variable and democracy.
c. examines the relationship between the control variable and diversity.
d. controls the results they want to find.
conditions that are conducive to its success.
Topic: Transitions to Democracy
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
23. In parliamentary systems, prime ministers serve:
a. two years.
b. four years.
c. six years.
d. no fixed term.
democracy and assess their relative advantages.
Topic: Presidential and Parliamentary Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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24. In parliamentary systems, prime ministers are chosen by:
a. voters.
b. an electoral college.
c. the legislature.
d. the Senate.
of democracy and assess their relative advantages.
Topic: Presidential and Parliamentary Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
25. Why do presidential systems of democracy offer less representation than parliamentary
forms of government?
a. Election results are divisible but executive power is not.
b. Presidents are elected directly.
c. Presidential systems provide a formula for avoiding gridlock.
d. Presidents and legislators are elected as teams.
democracy and assess their relative advantages.
Topic: Presidential and Parliamentary Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
26. Major differences in democracies around the world include:
a. term limits and number of legislators.
b. distribution of power between the executive and legislative branches and electoral
systems.
c. constitutional power and federalism.
d. direct voting and double-ballot voting.
democracy and assess their relative advantages.
Topic: Presidential and Parliamentary Democracy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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