What is a failed state? Name three indicators used by the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy to evaluate failed states and give three examples of failed states.
What will be an ideal response?
Students should first define failed state (a nation-state whose government can no longer provide political, economic, and social stability). Students should then name three indicators, which may include demographic pressures, refugees and IDPs, group grievance, human flight, uneven development, poverty and economic decline of the state, legitimacy of the state services, public services, human rights apparatus, security apparatus, factionalized elites, and external intervention. Finally, students should identify three failed states, which may include Somalia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Yemen, Afghanistan, Haiti, Central African Republic, and Zimbabwe.
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Which best describes political scientist Arend Lijphart's conclusions about which type of democracy is best?
a. He concludes that majoritarian democracy is equally effective as others in maintaining order and managing the economy, but superior in its representation, so it is better. b. He concludes that consensus democracy is equally effective as others in maintaining order and managing the economy, but superior in its representation, so it is better. c. He concludes that consensus democracy provides better representation and protection of minority views, but majoritarian democracy leads to more effective government, therefore it is not that one is better, they just have different advantages. d. He concludes that majoritarian democracy provides better representation and protection of minority views, but consensus democracy leads to more effective government, so, one is not better, they just have different advantages. e. Lijphart is a critic of democracy and has provided the most intellectually respected defense of authoritarian political systems.
Key features of research include:
A. It comes in various shapes and sizes B. It is never perfect C. It aims to generalize D. All of the above
The First Continental Congress?
What will be an ideal response?