Psci 140
Spring 2012
PSCI 140 Democracies around the World
Final Exam Study Guide
Instructor: Satoshi Machida
Part I: Words Identification (Content of Important Articles) (40 points)
1. You have to be prepared so that you can explain the following words and concepts.
* Authoritarian states
---A small group of individuals exercise power
Government is not constitutionally responsible to the state
Public—little role in leadership selection
Individual freedom is restricted
May be institutionalized and legitimate * Totalitarian states
Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.[2] Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through an all-encompassing propaganda campaign, which is disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that is often marked by political repression, personality cultism, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of speech, mass surveillance, and widespread use of terror. * Ideas of communism (terms of communism)
Equality (goal)
No private property
No market
Utopia (eventually no government)! * Policies implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev * The Great Leap Forward (China)
The Great Leap Forward (1958-61)
Make steel!!
Famine—30 millions (7 ~ 30 millions)
Achieve utopia ! * The Great Cultural Revolution (China) * Structural adjustment programs (conditionalities)
Conditionalities (IMF, World Bank)
Liberalization
Privatization
Abolish subsidies
Reduce tariffs
Streamline of the state * Dependency theory
Core and periphery
Periphery (primary commodities)
Core (manufactured goods)
Structure of exploitation at a global level * Import substitution
Create a positive condition for domestic industries !
Countries restrict import !
Tariff and non-tariff barriers !
Latin American
PSCI 140 Democracies around the World
Final Exam Study Guide
Instructor: Satoshi Machida
Part I: Words Identification (Content of Important Articles) (40 points)
1. You have to be prepared so that you can explain the following words and concepts.
* Authoritarian states
---A small group of individuals exercise power
Government is not constitutionally responsible to the state
Public—little role in leadership selection
Individual freedom is restricted
May be institutionalized and legitimate * Totalitarian states
Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.[2] Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through an all-encompassing propaganda campaign, which is disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that is often marked by political repression, personality cultism, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of speech, mass surveillance, and widespread use of terror. * Ideas of communism (terms of communism)
Equality (goal)
No private property
No market
Utopia (eventually no government)! * Policies implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev * The Great Leap Forward (China)
The Great Leap Forward (1958-61)
Make steel!!
Famine—30 millions (7 ~ 30 millions)
Achieve utopia ! * The Great Cultural Revolution (China) * Structural adjustment programs (conditionalities)
Conditionalities (IMF, World Bank)
Liberalization
Privatization
Abolish subsidies
Reduce tariffs
Streamline of the state * Dependency theory
Core and periphery
Periphery (primary commodities)
Core (manufactured goods)
Structure of exploitation at a global level * Import substitution
Create a positive condition for domestic industries !
Countries restrict import !
Tariff and non-tariff barriers !
Latin American