Can a regime be both authoritarian and democratic? If so, how could this be true? If not, why not?

What will be an ideal response?


Students should discuss electoral authoritarianism, or similar variants.

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Adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777, the __________ was a written statement of rules and principles to guide the first continent-wide government in the colonies

A) Mayflower Compact B) Declaration of Independence C) Declaration of Rights D) Articles of Confederation E) Magna Carta

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

1. Statistics is the only way for dealing with rival hypotheses. 2. If X causes Y (or in notation, X ? Y), then X is called the dependent variable because it affects Y. 3. Threats to external validity are defined as those that jeopardize the generalizability of study conclusions about program outcomes to other situations. 4. Threats to internal validity are those that jeopardize the study conclusions about whether an intervention in fact caused a difference in the study population.

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To whom did Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan appeal in his campaign for the presidency?

A.) immigrants B.) Catholics C.) Protestants D.) Midwesterners E.) Southerners

Political Science

Anarchy and globalization are factors reviewed in the ______ level of analysis.

a. individual b. state c. systemic d. national

Political Science