Intro to Comparative Politics (POL1060)

At present, China is not a democracy, to be sure, and political power is still monopolized by the Communist Party. But, it would certainly be too simplisitic to think that the impressive socioeconomic transformation of the past four decades have taken place in a sort of political vacuum. Some scholars would argue that China made a partial transition from a...... under Mao Zedong to a........ under Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao.

In China, during the so-called reform era the Chinese Communist Party's senior leadership appears to advocate (limited) political reform when:

In the study of contemporary China, one of the apparent disparities that receives the greatest scrutiny by the media and human right groups, among others, is the gap between economic and political reform. You would say that this incongruence reflects mainly:

Unfinished state, a notion suggested by political scientist Mark Kesselman, refers to:

Writing about India in your book....Thus, the political front has seen a decline of interventionist institutions and an enhancement or growth of:

Iran....given the so-called Supreme Leader is considered the epicenter of Iran's theocratic authority and the ultimate arbiter of Iranian politics, which of the following notions would you choose to write about the present-day Iran for a lay audience:

Two important institutions in India that, with the president, have, for the most part, exercised their powers on behalf of democratic transparency and accountability. These are:

If you were asked to typify the contemporary Nigerian federal state, you would principally point to its:

One of the central factors that explain the shift from dominant party to multiparty politics in India was mainly due to:

In a particular case of Germany the lower chamber of its bicameral legislature is called specifically:

Germany: Please indicate the author that has provided a valuable theoretical insight by linking system effectiveness to economic performance

Federalism, which corresponds to the German political historical traditions, ensures that the formulation and implementation of policy are:

Germany: the upper chamber of its bicameral legislature is called specifically:

The concept of codetermination indicates:

Japanese economic strength is the unique relationship between the government, bureaucracies, and big business organizations, the very expression of what is called the golden triad. These political arrangement suggest some type of:

Samuel Huntington has hypothesized that differences in the process of modernization across nations may lie in the complex relationships between cultural specificities and development. In the case of Japan, rapid industrialization and modernization success was fundamentally facilitated by disciplined:

In Japan, cooperation, individual loyalty, and devotion to the enterprise can hardly be thought of outside of the hierarchical system. This particular feature of Japanese culture refers principally to:

Andrew Shonfield's notion of organized capitalism appears to be most adequate to characterize the subtype of capitalist development in Germany's post-World War 2 era, which refers to strong collaborative relationships involving many players at the different levels of the industrial chain. This particular pattern of political arrangements can be also referred as:

A general notion of the modern state would be:

The notion of managed democracy-a rather strange expression that seems to contradict itself- is a concept that has been specifically used to describe contemporary politics in:

In the particular case of Russia, the lower chamber of its bicameral legislature is called specifically:

Vlasdilav Surkov describes Russia as a sovereign democracy but again- if you were asked to write about present-Russia for a lay audience you would say that the term actually indicates:

In the particular case of Germany, the lower chamber of its bicameral legislature is called specifically:

Political scientists often divide postwar Japanese politics into four main periods. The end of 2nd period and the so-called "LDP" system....this particular socio-political context was also marked by:

Junichiro Koizumi, a popular prime minister of Japan in 2001 until 2006, launched a series of political reforms that generally progressed very slowly. The pattern of resistance is mainly associated with:

The scholar who has described Russia as having a system of uncontested power is:

A federal state can be best defined as a country in that:

Tonight after class if you were asked to explain on national TV the notion of polyarchy you would say that it refers to political situations where one can verify:

Again if you were asked to briefly explain representative democracy means you would indicate:

After the Labor Party landslide victory on the 1997 general election in Britain, the new government launched an ambitious program of devolution of powers to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the greater London area. The prime minister who led that political process was:

The key notion of government can be best defined as:

The notion of polyarchy is generally used to describe the type of authority that predominates in:

One of the procedures most often overused in determining whether a particular political system is democratic is:

The notion of political globalization refers mainly to:

Modernity and modernization can be characterized by:

The author that first developed a conceptual framework to distinguish political systems by categories or types of authority was:

Generally speaking, how would characterize the main goals of nationalism

In Almond and Verba proposed a set of taxonomies to distinguish different expressions of political culture. These are:

The process through which societies become less religious can somewhat be called:

In our study of comparative politics the capacity of a state to cope with the multiple challenges of modernization, which implies some sort of evolutionary pattern, is best defined as:

The political scientist who has ascertained that Japan may constitute the world's "most perfect nation-state" with an extreme self-consciousness and a strong propensity for consensus decision-making was:

Now, when thinking about the different manifestations of nationalism, the civic type would be best distinguished from:

The term cohabitation refers to:

A federal state can be best defined as a country in that:

The ideology of colbertism refers to:

The uneven political development detected in the historical pattern of some political systems (antidemocratic forces strong role) could also be applied to:

The key notion of government can be best defined as:

Conceptually, the phenomenon of interest aggregation as opposed to interest articulation is usually attributed to:

Middle-level theory refers to the analytical exercise of explaining political phenomena found in:

Samuel Huntington's path breaking concept of the two-turnover test which measures democratic polities is best defined as: