Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. When the leadership of an authoritarian regime splits, the hardliners are people who support repressing any opposition and preserving the status quo.
2. When the leadership of an authoritarian regime splits, the softliners are people who are willing to consider compromising with opponents as a means to survive the crisis.
3. Democratization is the idea that democracy has become widely accepted as the permanent form of political activity in a particular country, and all significant political elites and their followers accept democratic rules and are confident everyone else does as well.
4. The two-turnover test is met when the first democratic election in many years (or ever) marks the completion of a transition to democracy.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
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A. dumping in the offending state's market B. quotas on the products being dumped C. tariffs to raise the price back to market levels D. subsidies for those companies being harmed
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a. Bill Clinton; George H. W. Bush b. Bill Clinton; George W. Bush c. George H. W. Bush; Barack Obama d. George W. Bush; Barack Obama
Totalitarianism is a regime type defined
a. as having an economy that is modernized enough to require leaders to work closely with a large bureaucracy with expertise on policy matters. b. by an effort to remake society and "atomize" the population. c. as militaristic with an emphasis on remaking society along racial, religious, or ethnic lines. d. by an effort to remake society in the name of the working class through, among other things, state ownership of the means of production. e. as an arrangement in which the central government has authority over all lower levels of government, and those lower levels have no powers reserved for them.
Which of the following is a long-term power resource?
A) Open-mindedness of a state's population B) The refusal of one state to shape the thinking of other states C) The quality of the state's bureaucracy D) Credibility of a state's commitments