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POLI SCI 106: Exam three People
Lenin |
-from 1917 to 1924
-orchestrates coup d'etat
-sees the USSR established |
Joseph Stalin
|
-Legacy 1924-1953
-collective agriculture
-massive modernization and industrialization
-great terror and purges
-Victory over the Nazis
|
NIkita Kruschev
|
-Legacy1953-1964
-Space program
-housing
-release of prisoners |
Leonid Brezhnev |
-Legacy 1953-1964
-Detente: put breaks on any actions
-domestic stability
-economic stagnation
|
Mikhail Gorbachev |
-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 |
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 |
Dmitry Medvedev |
current acting president |
Snyder and Ballentine |
-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
|
Przeworki (russia)
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-dillusionment in communism caused downfall, elites and militaries did not support it |
Bunce |
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 |
Charles I |
-flaunted royal power and resisted restriction on his power imposed by parliament
-Executed after losing English civil war in 1649 |
Queen Elizabeth II |
ascended throne in 1952 as monarch of UK |
Margaret Thatcher |
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 |
Tony Blair |
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 |
Gordon Brown |
Current PM of the UK member of the labor party |
Thatcher's economic reforms |
-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 |
North |
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 |
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 institutions
-can divide rather then untie |
Tocqueville |
-More social equality allows more democracy |
Porfirio Diaz |
-Mexican president for over 30 years
-he backed previous liberal reforms and fought to end french imposed monarchy |
Emiliano Zapata
Pancho villa |
advocated radical socioeconomic reform
led the civil war against Madero |
Vicente Fox |
-PAN
-won 2000 elections and beginning of a new era without PRI
-reorganized cabinet to include 19 cabinet secretaries and 7 policy coordinators |
Felipe Calderon |
-Current Mexican president
-Elected in July 2006
-National action party |
Comandante Marcos |
Spokesperson for the zapatista army of national liberation |
Linz and Stepan |
Discussed 5 major regime types(democratic, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, post-totalitarianism, sultanism)
-They said that these regime types differed by pluralism, ideology, mobilization, and leadership |
Diamond
|
-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 they see an increase in freedom |