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Review and conclusion

Review and conclusion. 27 May 2008. What is a successful revolution?. What is the experience of revolution like?. Are there alternatives to democracy and dictatorship?. Review: The Nature of Dictatorship. What is a political regime? What is a dictatorship? What is a democracy?.

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Review and conclusion

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  1. Review and conclusion 27 May 2008

  2. What is a successful revolution?

  3. What is the experience of revolution like?

  4. Are there alternatives to democracy and dictatorship?

  5. Review: The Nature of Dictatorship • What is a political regime? • What is a dictatorship? • What is a democracy?

  6. Review: Dictatorship and Power • How is power distributed in democracies as opposed to non-democracies?

  7. Review: The Badness of Dictatorship • What are the harms that non-democracies may cause? • Can a wise and benevolent ruler be better than democracy?

  8. Review: Types of Dictatorship • What criteria should we use to classify dictatorships and non-democracies? • How does Tilly classify regimes? • How does Boix classify regimes?

  9. Review: Hybrid regimes • What are hybrid regimes? • How do they emerge? • Are they unstable? • Why do dictatorial rulers have elections at all?

  10. Review: Fascism • What are the main characteristics of fascist ideologies? • What conditions made it possible for fascist movements to emerge and grow? • What political conditions made it possible for them to take power? • Are any of these conditions present today in other countries?

  11. Review: Totalitarianism • What are totalitarian regimes? What are their main features? • What makes “total domination” possible? • How are totalitarian regimes distinguished from regular dictatorships? • What is the function of ideology in totalitarian regimes? • What is the function of terror in totalitarian regimes? How does it differ from the use of repression in other dictatorships? • Can ideologically diverse regimes – like Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia – both be considered totalitarian?

  12. Review: Post-totalitarianism • How are post-totalitarian regimes different from totalitarian regimes? • Are these regimes fragile?

  13. Review: Regime Change • Why might we use abstract models of regime change? • What simplifications do these models make? • What are the factors making revolution likely in Boix’s model? Why? • When is democracy a likely outcome, according to Boix? • What factors may be important for regime change that are not taken into account by Boix’s model?

  14. Review: Repertoires of Contention • How do people make political claims? What are some examples? • What is a repertoire of contention? • How do repertoires differ? How do they change? • What is the relationship between political regimes and particular repertoires of contention? • What is the social movement repertoire? Where is it normally found? • Do revolutions have specific repertoires according to the kinds of regimes in which they occur? • What are “modular” repertoires?

  15. Review: The Repertoire of Modern Revolutions • What is the color revolution model? • What is the “repertoire” of a color revolution? • In what regimes are color revolutions possible? • Why are stolen elections necessary for color revolutions? • What is the role of foreign actors in color revolutions? • How does the success of a color revolution affect the success of other revolutions? • Why doesn’t a color revolution always work even when conditions appear favourable?

  16. Review: Mobilization • What conditions make it easier for people to mobilize and revolt? • Why are students often at the forefront of mobilization? • What is the basic calculus facing a potential protester or defector from a regime? • Which groups tend to mobilize first? Which tend to mobilize later? • How does the mobilization of one group affect the mobilization of other groups? • How does mobilization affect the defection of regime members? • Which groups might defect first? How does their defection affect the defection of others? • What makes protests escalate rapidly?

  17. Review: Liberalization and Democratization • What are the pressures facing authoritarian regimes or dictatorships? Do such regimes have a future? • Where do most transitions to democracy start? • Why are divisions within the regime necessary for a transition? • What sorts of compromises might be necessary for democratization to proceed? • How does mobilization help democratization? • When are threats from the hardliners credible?

  18. Review: Problems of Transition • What are some of the key dilemmas faced by the opposition in a transition to democracy? • What are the compromises the opposition might make to resolve these dilemmas? • Are the potential compromises the opposition might make worth it? • What are the basic ways of dealing with the past after a transition? • Are some of these easier than others? Are some better than others?

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