PSC 203 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Authoritarianism, Corporatism, Individual And Group Rights
22 Apr 2017
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Theocracy, illiberal regimes: personal/monarchial, military rule, one-party rule: dominant party that organizes patronage, theocracy: rule by religious clerics. Illiberal regimes: rule by an elected leadership through procedures of questionable democratic legitimacy: resource trap, theory of development in which the existence of national resources in a given state is a barrier to modernization and democracy. This list includes all the possible short answer questions for test 1. One of these short answer questions on the test. From a social and economic standpoint, the modernization theory has a lot to do with this explanation also, claiming societies develop through a series of stages. This has a lot to do with the controversial relationship between wealth and democracy. How might the structure of political parties differ between proportional representation systems and single-member districts: political parties serve as mediators between society and the elected representatives who are responsible for deciding and implementing policies.
