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| All latin countries except one were military dictatorships and are now democratic. Which one is the exception? |
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| Britain is a model for what kind of governing style? |
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| Palestinians and Kurds do not have a...? |
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| Authoritative allocation of scarce values |
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| Compares the performance of political systems in the allocation of scarce values. |
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| Basic components of comparative politics |
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Political institutions
Political actors
Context |
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| What kind of a state is France? |
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| Which two countries democratised fairly equally over time and did not face territorial problems? |
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| Great Britain and America |
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| Which two countries suffered greatly because of territorial threats? |
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| When did modern nations and states arise? |
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| In the late stages of the medieval period |
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| What is the relationship between political and economic development? |
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| If rated by GDP (Gross Domestic Product) the top 40 developed economies would all be...? |
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| China is vastly poorer than the U.S. in relative terms because...? |
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| There are 1 billion people in China vs. 400 million in the U.S. to divide GDP by |
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| One of the laws of history is that economic development occurs...? |
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| before political devolopment |
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| Which are the only 3 countries who democratised before industrialization? |
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| The U.S., Britain, and India |
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| The 3 broad approches to explain political behavior |
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Individual motivation
Cultural and ideology
Underlying structures |
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| The theory that people are rational, have self-defined interests, and the knowledge and ability to pursue them. |
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| Theories looking for non-rational explanations for individual motivation for political behavior: individuals' psychological experiences or dispositions. |
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| Political Culture Theories |
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| Theories that attitudes, values, and beliefs shape political outcomes. |
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| The systematic set of beliefs about how a political system ought to be structured |
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| The theory that political behavior is influenced by socioeconomic and institutional structures |
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| Power is dispersed among various political groups in society |
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| Societies are ruled by the elite with effective control over virtually all power |
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| Rational Choice Theories explain political behavior as fundamentally based on... |
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| Structuralism assumes that political behavior is influenced by... |
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| socioeconomic and institutional structures |
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| Cultural Theories assume that political behavior is influenced by |
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| Has territorial area, and government ruling over population |
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Government
Territory
Population |
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| Recognition of state's authority to make laws, without interference from the outside |
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| The concept of sovereignty was first established in what? |
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| What ended the 30 years War? |
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| Sovereignty being established in the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 |
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| What is sovereignty associated with? |
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| The notion of sovereignty did not exist when? |
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| Before the 16th century, the feudal system was in place. |
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| What are three special cases of statehood? |
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| Taiwan, Palestine, and "Kurdistan" |
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| Which state is special because it is on the map, has a government, and an economy, but is not recognized as a legal entity because it is seen as an illegal break-away? |
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| Which special state's legal claim towards sovereignty is accepted at the United Nations? |
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| Which special state is not recognized as a group with a legal claim to sovereignty and has no strong allies? |
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| A psychological category that consists of self-identification of a group and a feeling of belonging together. |
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| What can language, religion, ethnicity, values, or historical memories be the basis of? |
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| When do you have a nation-state? |
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| When the territorial borders of a state and a nation coincide |
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| What are the origins of the Modern state? |
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| It arose in Europe between the 15th and 18th c., introduced by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. |
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| What was there before the modern state? |
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| Feudalism (sovereignty was unknown) |
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| How did Europe export the modern state? |
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| Through colonial conquest |
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| Outline the spread of the Modern State |
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| 1st wave, 2nd wave, Late 18th/early 19th c., post-1945, and up to the early 1960s. |
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| When and where was the 1st wave of the modern state? |
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| When and where was the 2nd wave of the modern state? |
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| Mid-19th c. in Asia, then Africa |
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| What happened with the modern state in the Late 18th/early 19th century? |
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| Decolonization of the Americas |
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| What happened with the modern state post-1945? |
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| Decolonization of Africa & Asia |
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| What happened with the modern state by the early 1960s? |
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| Modern states covered virtually the entire globe |
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| One that cannot provide adequate political goods |
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| When did weak states not survive? |
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| Prior to the 20th c. Now hostile takeovers are rare. |
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| A state so weak it loses effective sovereignty |
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| What are two examples of failed states? |
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| What makes up Great Britain? |
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| Engand, Wales, and Scotland |
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| What makes up the United Kingdom? |
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Great Britain and Northern Ireland
(England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) |
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| Who was first to develop the modern territorial state? |
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| What were and are the types of government used in the United Kingdom? |
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| First Parliament in the 13th c., but monarch was the primary power holder until the 19th c. |
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| How did the democratization of the United Kingdom go? |
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| Gradually, parliament wrestles power away from monarch resulting in no written constitution. |
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| Who was the first to industrialize? |
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| What country is going through a transition? |
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| Who just changed their currency? |
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| Which state is now part of the European Union, but has maintained more sovereignty than most EU members? |
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| Which state holds the oldest continuous monarchy in the world? |
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| Which state believes in the divine origin of emperor? |
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| What type of government does Japan have today? |
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| A "constitutional monarchy" |
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| Who and when did the Tokugawa Shogunate rule? |
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| What type of society was the Tokugawa Shogunate? |
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| Who serves as figurehead in the Tokugawa Shogunate? |
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| What happened in Japan in the 19th century? |
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| Socio-economic change: rise of the merchant class and decline of samurai and peasants |
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| What did the U.S. Navy do to Japan in 1853? |
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| Forced the economic opening of Japan |
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| When did the Meiji Restoration start? |
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| What happened during the Meiji Restoration? |
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| Emperor restored to effective power, rapid modernization, creation of centralized nation-state, military success, and by the 1930s Japan is a major industrial and military power. |
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| What are the 3 biggest earth-shattering transformations? |
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| State-formation, industrialization, and democratization |
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| What decades did we refer to when we talked about militarism and ultranationalism? |
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| What was the military and ultranational activity during the 1930's and 1940's? |
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| Expansionist military policies, invasion of Manchuria, war with China, Pearl Harbor, and Hiroshima & Nagasaki, ending with "American-made democracy" & economic success. |
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| What led to the Japanese surrender? |
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| Hiroshima & Nagasaki destroyed by atomic bombs in August 1945 |
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| Which is a "backward" country? |
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| What are 3 things that establish Germany's "backwardness"? |
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| Late industrialization, late national unification, and late democratization. |
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| When did Germany industrialize? |
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| When did Germany nationally unify? |
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| What were the steps along the way to Germany's democratization? |
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| Gradual democratization was stopped by WWI. The Weimar Republic was a fragile 14 yr democracy that came to an end in 1933 when Germany became Nazi Germany. A West German democracy began in 1949, but East Germany remained under Soviet influence until 1989. Finally, in 1990, Germany was unified. |
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| What kind of conflicts did Germany have? |
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| Simultaneous, rather than sequential conflicts. |
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| What is the largest latin american country in regards to size & population? |
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| When was the Portuguese Colonial Period? |
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| What was big in Brazil in the 17th century? |
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| Sugar plantations and slave trade |
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| What was big in Brazil in the 18th & 19th century? |
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| When was the Portuguese Royal Exile in Brazil? |
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| When did the Crown Prince Pedro declare the independence of Brazil? |
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| When was the Brazilian Empire? |
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| What did the Brazilian Empire do? |
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| The monarchy unified the country |
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| What were the stages to democracy in Brazil? |
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| In the 1930's it was plagued by military coups, as a quasi-fascist regime. Then it was under a modernizing military regime between 1964-1985. Finally it went through a transition to democracy after 1985. |
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| What was the colonial power in Brazil? |
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| Which Latin American country imported large numbers of slaves from Africa until the later part of the 19th century? |
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| Which country experienced a late national unification? |
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| What was the first German experiment with democracy between 1919 & 1933 called? |
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| What is the largest territorial state in the world? |
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| When did the monarchy rule Russia? |
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| From the 14th century to WWI |
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| When did Russia's Tsarist Empire rule? |
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| When was the Communist Revolution? |
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| What did the Communist Revolution lead to? |
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| The creation of the Soviet Union |
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| What did communist rule do to Russia? |
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| Modernized, and after WWII Russia was the only rival to U.S. power because of it |
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| How did Russia become modernized? |
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| Which, of the 15 successor states, was declared the "legal" successor to the Soviet Union? |
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| Which was the only nuclear successor state of the Soviet Union? |
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| What is Post-Soviet Russia like? |
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| It has regained strength and become semi-authoritarian |
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| Where is the world's largest democracy? |
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| Which is the only long-lasting democracy in a poor country? |
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| Who had mass deomocracy before a modern economy? |
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| In what country is democracy against the odds because it has over 1 billion people, 25 regional states, 15 major languages and 250-1,600 smaller languages, 5 major religions and many smaller religions, great poverty & illiteracy, regional security problems, hierarchical & authoritarian political culture |
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| What is India's legacy of colonial rule? |
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| British East India Company (informal imperialism) and Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 (British direct control) |
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| Who completed the first successfull post-WWII anti-colonial effort? |
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| When was the Indian National Congress founded and who the leader? |
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| What were the characteristics of India's Independence/Anti-colonial movement? |
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| It was broad-based, a peaceful struggle: combination of negotiations & non-violent resistance, and the British needed India and were vulnerable to India's threat of non-cooperation. |
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| When did India gain independence? |
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| What was the first non-Western state to create a fully modern economy? |
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| Do Russia and the Soviet Union have the same territorial borders? |
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| In what form did Russia exist before 1917? |
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| What is the oldest continuous civilization in the world? |
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| Who had the most developed bureaucratic structure in the pre-modern world? |
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| What country was never formally colonized, but subjugated in the 19th century? |
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| When did communists take power of China? |
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| Who was the leader of the Chinese communist revolution? |
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| Who holds the highest economic growth rates in the world for the past 20 years? |
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| How were the borders of Nigeria set? |
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| What is the largest African country? |
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| Nigeria is deeply divided along what lines? |
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| Ethnic and religious lines |
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| What is the difference between north and south Nigeria? |
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| The North is Muslim, the South is Christian and Animist |
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| How many languages does Nigeria have? |
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| When did Nigeria gain independence? |
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| What have Nigeria's attempts at democracy been like? |
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| Which country has frequent military dictatorships? |
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| Where did the colonization of Africa start? |
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| What is Nigeria characterized by? |
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| When was the Chinese Communist Revolution? |
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| How do states seek to legitimize relationships between the state and it's people? |
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| A member of a political community or state |
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| How much say did subjects of monarchs have in their relationship with the state? |
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| As the modern state developed, what became associated with citizenship? |
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| What are the 3 kinds of citizenship rights? |
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| Civil rights, political rights, and social rights |
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| What kind of right are freedom of expression or association examples of? |
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| What kind of right are the right to vote or run for office examples of? |
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| What kind of right are the rights to public education and well-being examples of? |
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| What nation is not a member of the UN? |
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| Are nations and states the same concept? |
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| Does every nation have its own state? |
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| Where did the modern state first arise? |
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| How did the modern state spread? |
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| Which treaty introduced the concept of sovereignty? |
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| When did the decolonization of Mexico happen? |
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| What are characteristics of the modern liberal democracy? |
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| Voting rights expand to all adult citizens, citizens use freedoms to create civil society, and representative democracy ("republic"): government selected via elections |
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| What is the birthplace of liberal democracy? |
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| The Magna Carta was signed in what year? |
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| What did the Magna Carta do? |
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| Lords limited king's powers |
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| The United Kingdom puts emphasis on what kind of government? |
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| Parliamentary sovereignty |
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| What country has no written constitution? |
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| What country's traditional institutions were not abolished? |
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| Great Britain's (monarchy and house of lords) |
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| What are the prime movers of history? |
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