Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Authoritarian regimes do not hold elections.
2. The “Arab Spring” in 2011 replaced democratic regimes with authoritarian ones in Tunisia and Egypt.
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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