Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Authoritarian regimes do not hold elections.
2. Democracy refers to an ideology associated with modernization.
3. Civil society refers to an organized activity to pursue common interests by groups larger than the family.
4. In comparative politics researchers do not use single-case studies.
5. Empirical theory describes what ought to occur; Normative theory describes what actually occurs.


1. False
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False

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