Exam 1: An Institutional Approach to Democracy and Democratization in Latin America

Of the countries examined in Democratic Latin America, which three maintained democratic government during the 1960s to the 1980s?

Contemporary Guatemala can best be described as a(n):

What distinguishes a formal institution from an informal institution?

Which stage of the democratization process occurs most quickly?

Discuss the relationship between political rights and civil liberties, and how their relationship contributes to the process of democratization.

How do institutions capture cultural values and provide a lens on the history of a country? What are the consequences of this for institutional engineering?

Liberalization can be initiated by an authoritarian regime.

Joseph Schumpeter's definition of democracy focuses on:

What sort of institutions led to greater military unity and a longer period of military rule in Chile?

A non-governmental organization is an example of an informal institution.

Identify the difference between rational choice institutionalism and historical institutionalism. Which do you find most persuasive?

What reform to the electoral law had a significant affect on the 2007 presidential election in Guatemala?

How does an institutional approach illuminate the difficulties of democratization in Guatemala?

What sort of institutions led to greater military unity and a longer period of military rule in Brazil?

An electoral democracy is characterized by:

Differences over economic policy usually set off the division between softliners and hardliners.

The study of institutions provides insight into:

The example of Argentina in the introduction to Chapter 1 illustrates what feature of institutions?

URNG leaders came primarily from which group?

A liberal democracy is characterized by: