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1German reunifixation took place in October 1990. This refer to the reunification of:
- AGermany and Poland
- BGermany and Austria
- CWest Germany and Slovakia
- DEast Germany and West Germany
- AGermany and Poland
2Portugal, Spain, and Greece experienced transitions to democracy in which decade?
- A1950
- B1960
- C1970
- D1980
3South Korea experienced a transition to democracy in which decades?
- A1950
- B1970
- C1980
- DNone of the above, South Korea is currently an isolated and repressive dictatorship.
4Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay experienced transitions to democracy in which decade?
- A1970
- B1980
- C1990
5The non-interventionist policy of which Soviet leader was instrumental in the democratic transitions of 1989 across much of Eastern Europe?
- AJoseph Stalin
- BMikal Gorbachev
- CNikita Khurshclev
- DBoris Yeltsin
6The velvet revolution" is a reference to the peaceful democratic transition in:
- ACzechoslovakia
- BRomania
7According to recent studies of attempts to externally impose democracy on a country by using military force, there is very little evidence, if any, to support the claim that such intervention increase the level of democracy in target countries.
- ATrue
- BFalse
8Some politicians like to refer to cases in which the United States intervened successfully in order to establish democracy, Japan and West Germany after WWII are favorite examples. However, according to the recent empirical research discussed in Chapter 8 (on democratic transitions), evidence shows that although attempts at the external impositions of democracy may promote some democratic-seeming reforms in the short run, they ultimately produce political instability in the target countries and are unlikely to lead to a stable democracy.
- ATrue
- BFalse
9The introduction of elections, legislatures, and parties in many dictatorships around the world is a sign that these countries are definitely moving toward democracy.
- ATrue
- BFalse
10 A “public good” is:
- AExcludable and rivalrious
- BNon-excludable and rivalrious
- CExcludable and non-rivalrious
- DNon- excludable and non-rivalrious
11Public goods are, by their nature, desirable. Thus, anyone who would benefit from such a good can be expected to contribute to its provision
- ATrue
- BFalse
12Collective action theory indicates that individuals will automatically act collectively to achieve their goals whenever they share common interests (such as wanting to listen to NPR, protect environmental resources, or promote democracy).
- ATrue
- BFalse
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The following Collective Action scenario applies to the next three questions.
Say you belong to a group that has fifty members (N), and in order to get a particular benefit (B. you need fifteen members (K) to contribute. Those who contribute to the provision of the benefit pay a cost (C). Of course, B >
If you know that ten members of the group (aside from yourself) are willing to contribute, what should you do?- AContribute
- BNot Contribute
14Say you belong to a group that has fifty members (N), and in order to get a particular benefit (B. you need fifteen members (K) to contribute. Those who contribute to the provision of the benefit pay a cost (C). Of course, B >
If you know that forty-five members of the group (aside from yourself) are willing to contribute, what should you do?- ANot Contribute
- BContribute
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The following Collective Action scenario applies to the next three questions.
Say you belong to a group that has fifty members (N), and in order to get a particular benefit (B. you need fifteen members (K) to contribute. Those who contribute to the provision of the benefit pay a cost (C). Of course, B >
If you know that fourteen members of the group (aside from yourself) are willing to contribute, what should you do?- AContribute
- BNot Contribute
16When groups are small enough that members can monitor each other’s behavior, solving the free-rider problem becomes
- AMore Difficult
- BEasier
17Collective action theory suggests that minority groups may actually be more powerful than majority groups in some circumstances. This might explain why business lobbies are usually considered to be more effective at influencing political elites than trade unions are.
- ATrue
- BFalse
18Collective action theory helps explain why:
- AProtests in Eastern Europe were rare throughout most of the cold war.
- BThere were massive protest across Eastern Europe.
19Imagine the following ten-person society featuring the threshold sequence
Alpha = {0, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10}.
What would happen in this society?- AOnly the first member would go out and publicly protest.
- BOnly the first three members would go out and publicly protest.
- CThere would be a revolutionary cascade, and all members of the society except for person 10 (revolutionary threshold = 10) would publicly protest the opposition
20If person 6 (revolutionary threshold = 5) from Alpha has an unpleasant encounter with a government official and her revolutionary threshold is lowered to 4, what would happen now in the society Alpha' = {0, 1, 2, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10}?
- AThere would be no change.
- BThere would be a revolutionary cascade, and all members of the society except for person 10 (revolutionary threshold = 10) would publicly protest the opposition.
21If instead of person 6 undergoing a threshold shift, it was person 4 (threshold = 4) from Alpha who had an unpleasant encounter with a government official and whose threshold was lowered (to 3), what would happen in the society Alpha'' = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10}?
- AThere would be no change.
- BThere would be a revolutionary cascade, and all members of the society except for person 10 (revolutionary threshold = 10) would publicly protest the opposition.
22“Preference falsification” makes revolutions unpredictable and makes revolutions seem inevitable after they have occurred.
- ATrue
- BFalse
23 The tipping, or threshold, models presented in Chapter 8 are used to explain why the public protests in Eastern Europe in 1989 were a surprise to most political observers, both inside and outside of Eastern Europe. According to the reading and lectures, why are revolutions always going to be a surprise?
- ARevolutions tend to be irrational.
- BPreference falsification
- CRevolutionary cascades
- DNone of the above
24In which of the following societies would there be a revolutionary cascade (revolution), given the distribution of revolutionary thresholds shown in the examples below?
- A{0, 1, 1, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10}.
- B{0, 1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10}.
- C{0, 1, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}.
- DRevolutions would occur in all of the above societies.
- ERevolutions would occur only in (a. and (b. above.
25In which of the two societies below is a revolution more likely to occur?
Gamma = {0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 10}Delta = {0, 1, 1, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10}- AGamma
- BDelta
26Collective action theory, which highlights the incentives for free riding, is better at explaining why:
- AProtests in Eastern Europe were rare throughout most of the cold war.
- BThere were massive protests across Eastern Europe in 1989
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