A Comparative Introduction to Political Science: Contention and Cooper
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Essay Questions:


  1. Are all non-democracies ruled the same way? Discuss similarities and differences between three major forms of non-democratic rule.
  2. What is clientelism? How does clientelism support or operate in concert with various types of authoritarian rule?
  3. From the perspective of the United States, could military regimes be seen as useful for American interests abroad? Why or why not?
  4. Discuss how communism affected the strong and function of non-democratic governments. How did one-party rule change, following the collapse of the Soviet Union?
  5. What factors are necessary to start and maintain a revolution? Why do revolutions oftentimes fail to accomplish the change that they set out to begin?

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