POLI SCI 106: Exam three People
27 Cards in this Set
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Lenin
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-from 1917 to 1924
-orchestrates coup d'etat
-sees the USSR established
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Joseph Stalin
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-Legacy 1924-1953
-collective agriculture
-massive modernization and industrialization
-great terror and purges
-Victory over the Nazis
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NIkita Kruschev
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-Legacy1953-1964
-Space program
-housing
-release of prisoners
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Leonid Brezhnev
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-Legacy 1953-1964
-Detente: put breaks on any actions
-domestic stability
-economic stagnation
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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-Legacy 1985-1991
-simulatneous political and economic reforms Glasnot(openness) and perestroika (restructuring)
-destruction of communist party
-end of USSR
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Boris Yeltsin
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1991-1999: head of Russian republic
-Weak state institutions
-Sovereignty movements
-failed economic reforms
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Vladimir Puitn
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-Prime minister in 1999
-acting president in 2000
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Dmitry Medvedev
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current acting president
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Snyder and Ballentine
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-nationalist mythmaking is fostered by public debate and the marketplace of ideas creates public debate
-promoting unconditional freedom in democratizing countries can make things worse
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Przeworki (russia)
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-dillusionment in communism caused downfall, elites and militaries did not support it
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Bunce
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Factors that affect the process of democratization
-Geography
-Sharing of ideas
-openness
-want the most outputs from the least number of inputs in the process of democratization
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Charles I
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-flaunted royal power and resisted restriction on his power imposed by parliament
-Executed after losing English civil war in 1649
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Queen Elizabeth II
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ascended throne in 1952 as monarch of UK
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Margaret Thatcher
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Prime minister (1979-1990)
-conservative who lowered taxes, cut spending on costly social services
-instituted a poll tax that was extremly unpopular
-Successfully fought a war in the falklands
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Tony Blair
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Prime minister 1997-2007
leader of new labor party who advocated moderate free-market policies along with ambitious constitutional reforms
Restored considerable autonomy to municipal government
supported the war in Iraq
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Gordon Brown
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Current PM of the UK member of the labor party
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Thatcher's economic reforms
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-Reduced state intervention in the economy after a large period of welfare systems that slowed the economy
-lowered taxes
-privatization
-poll tax that attempted to shift the tax burden from businesses and property to individuals
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North
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Social institutions
-institutions are the humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic, and social interactions
-institutions create order and reduce uncertainty
-Both tribal society and long distance economy are not likely to expand but world market
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Berman
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Neo tocquevillians argue the relation between the degree of civil society and the health of democracy
-Private association creates mutual trust among people and create a sense of belonging
-civil society can further alienate certain people in the absence of strong political institut…
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Tocqueville
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-More social equality allows more democracy
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Porfirio Diaz
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-Mexican president for over 30 years
-he backed previous liberal reforms and fought to end french imposed monarchy
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Emiliano Zapata
Pancho villa
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advocated radical socioeconomic reform
led the civil war against Madero
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Vicente Fox
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-PAN
-won 2000 elections and beginning of a new era without PRI
-reorganized cabinet to include 19 cabinet secretaries and 7 policy coordinators
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Felipe Calderon
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-Current Mexican president
-Elected in July 2006
-National action party
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Comandante Marcos
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Spokesperson for the zapatista army of national liberation
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Linz and Stepan
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Discussed 5 major regime types(democratic, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, post-totalitarianism, sultanism)
-They said that these regime types differed by pluralism, ideology, mobilization, and leadership
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Diamond
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-classified different regimes based on regime types (liberal democracy, electoral democracy, ambiguous regimes, competitive authoritarianism, hegemonic electoral authoritarianism, closed authoritarianism)
-said that over the years more regimes are moving towards electoral democracy as th…
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POLI SCI 106: Midterm 1