After being overly optimistic about the collapse of

authoritarianism, many political scientists do not believe that:
a. some authoritarian regimes have had to make big changes in policies to survive.
b. electoral authoritarianism is weakening as a way of maintaining authoritarian rule.
c. democracy is now the only widely accepted way of claiming legitimacy.
d. fundamentalist Islam is the twenty-first-century ideological equivalent of Marxism.


Answer: d

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