Review This has all of the quiz questions and answers all of the notes and the review day notes Good luck Primordial cultural arguments regarding democracy state that any culture could be compatible with Study Guide CPO Ch 7 8 10 11 12 democratic institutions o False One of the problems with the early forms of arguments about the cultural determinants of democracy is that they did not clearly specify what aspect of culture actually mattered for democracy to emerge or survive Thus their claims were not always presented in a falsifiable manner o True In the 1960s a new group of scholars began studying the link between culture and democracy Specifically Almond Verba used surveys to get information about how individuals in different countries felt about political institutions actors and processes They claimed that the type of culture that is most compatible with democracy is o Participant culture o surveys o social capital o Almond and Verba studied political culture through the use of what In his books Making Democracy Work and Bowling Alone Robert Putnam highlights the importance of what factor when explaining why some democracies perform better than others In Making Democracy Work and Bowling Alone Robert Putnam highlights the importance of social capital when explaining why some democracies perform better than others His argument supports the results of the experiments discussed in Chapter 7 that suggest that if we assume that democratic institutions tend to require a particular type of behavior then individuals in societies whose interactions already require this behavior in everyday interactions will find it easier to adopt and support democracy True or false the evidence presented in Chapter 7 suggested that predominantly Muslim societies are less likely to become democratic and to stay that way Which one of the following statements is TRUE o Ethnic religious or cultural diversity does not prevent or hinder a country from transitioning to o True o false democracy In the Ultimatum or the Dictator games players are given the opportunity to divide the pie choosing a division of 1 dollar or some equivalent to split between two people In equilibrium what would you expect the dictator to propose in the dictator game where the opponent does not have the option to accept Empirically what does experimental evidence suggests usually occurs in Dictatorship Ultimatum games or reject her offer o One for the dictator nothing for the opponent o 50 50 Huntington s third wave of democracy refers to what o The surge in democratic transitions since 1974 Which one of the following is a public good o Fireworks display The fall of Communism in East Germany is an example of what o Bottom up transition to democracy When Professor Driscoll was in college the kitchen she shared with her six college roommates was almost never clean even though everyone wished it was clean This is an example of what o Collective action problem To say something is non rivalrous means what o The value of good does not diminish with others competition Which of the following recent events might be an example of a revolutionary cascade Which of the following countries experienced a top down transition to democracy o The Arab Spring o Brazil The following is based on an article by Stathis Kalyvas entitled Commitment Problems in Emerging Democracies The Case of Religious Parties This reading can be found on the homework page of the course website or a short description is provided on pg 316 of our textbook In the paper Kalyvas examines whether religious parties are compatible with secular and liberal democratic institutions He concludes that religious parties may be compatible with democracy so long as they can credibly commit not to impose a theocratic dictatorship if they come to power He goes on to argue that some religions are better able to provide these credible commitments than others We now provide a Religious Party Game that throws light on the credible commitment problem facing religious parties that Kalyvas describes The two players in our game are a dictatorial regime Regime that has recently introduced a process of democratization and a religious party Religious Party that seeks to gain power through the newly proposed democratic elections The religious party is expected to win the elections and many fear that it will turn the country into a theocracy rather than continuing the process of democratic consolidation The Regime has to decide whether to hold the elections as scheduled or to cancel them and retain power as a dictatorship If elections are held and the religious party wins which we are assuming will happen then the Religious Party has to decide whether to pursue a moderate political agenda and support democratic consolidation or to subvert the democratization process and create a religious regime The religious party comes in two types moderate and radical One way to think about these types is that religious parties have both moderate and radical factions whichever faction is dominant determines the religious party s type Moderate religious parties prefer democratic consolidation to establishing a theocracy while radical religious parties prefer the opposite There are three possible outcomes in this game Continued Dictatorship Religious Dictatorship and Democratic Consolidation Figure 8 7 in the textbook illustrates an incomplete information version of this game with cardinal payoffs where the Regime does not know whether they are interacting with a Moderate Religious Party or a Radical Religious Party Now answer the following questions Based on the cardinal payoffs shown in the figure below Fig 8 7 in our more recent edition what is the preference ordering for the Regime over the three possible outcomes o Democratic consolidation Continued dictatorship New Religious Dictatorship Based on the cardinal payoffs shown in Figure 8 7 what is the preference ordering for the Moderate Religious Party over the three possible outcomes o Democratic consolidation New religious Dictatorship Continued Dictatorship Based on the cardinal payoffs shown in Figure 8 7 what is the preference ordering for the Radical Religious Party over the three possible outcomes o New religious dictatorship Democratic consolidation Continued dictatorship The following is based on an article by Stathis Kalyvas entitled Commitment Problems in Emerging Democracies The Case of Religious Parties This reading can be found on the homework page of
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