Autocracies Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This summary provides a comprehensive overview of everything covered both in the lectures and readings. It is a great guide that I myself used to study for the exam, and it had the answers for every question that was asked during the examination, so good luck studying!

Lecture notes 2022 Democracies, autocracies and transition

All the lectures of DAT are included in this document. I passed the course with a 7,8 using only these notes, did not even open the readings.

summary of all mandatory readings and articles of democracies autocracies and transitions: Przeworski, Sen 1999, Clark & Golder 2018, Gandhi 2008, Kendall-Taylor Frantz and Wright 2017, Gerschewski 2013, King 2013, Ang 2018, Bunce & wolchik 2010, Levitsky & Way 2002, Lipset and Seymour 1959, Geddes 2007, Teorell 2010, Gunitsky 2008, Levitsky & Way 2006, Bermeo 2016, Zoltan, Timur, Scheppele 2022.

Any large group of people who share common bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and perhaps religion is called a(n) correct answer: nation A defined political community that controls a specific part of the earth's surface and has an organized government that has the power to make and enforce laws without approval from any higher authority is called correct answer: a state Idea that the state has complete and total authority in the lands it controls correct answer: Sovereignty ...

legislative branch - Answer made up of the two houses of Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives. The most important duty of the legislative branch is to make laws. executive branch - Answer vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. judicial branch - Answer the power to interpret laws and settle disputes authoritarian governments - Answer a form of government characterized by strong cen...

What are the primary functions of the government? - Answer Maintain order, settle conflicts, and protect the community. What are the 3 kinds of power in government? - Answer Executive, judicial, and legislative. What kind of power does the legislative branch have? - Answer It has the power to create laws. What kind of power does the executive branch have? - Answer It has the power to administer (manage) laws. What kind of power does the judicial branch have? - Answer It has...