Posted: July 3rd, 2015

Democracy

Please answer five of the following nine questions. Please be detailed in your answers. Please write your question followed by the answer.

Please upload the completed exam in the Assignments section of Blackboard under the title of Final Exam. The exam is due on May 18th at 8 pm.

Detailed paragraph for 5 of the 9 questions.

1. Describe the characteristics of a representative democracy and the connections between economic developments and democratization.

2. List some of the ways in which a government can help its citizens.

3. Define the components of a political system and discuss the ways that domestic and international environments can affect it.

4. List six types of political structures, and provide a few examples of how a similar structure functions differently in Britain than it does in China.

5. List and describe three current forces that are affecting contemporary political structures.

6. Define interest articulation, and provide some examples of interest articulation in different societies.

7. Discuss the types of electoral systems and their relations to patterns of electoral competition.

8. Discuss the presidential and parliamentary forms of democratic government, using the United States and Britain, respectively, as examples.

9. Contrast Chinas “rule by law” with democratic “rule of law.”