POLS241 Midterm example

Question 1

What are examples of Autocratic rule in settler colonies?

Answer 1

-Settlers gains in political freedom came with worse legal standing of the Africans (E.G SOUTH AFRICA OR ALGERIA).

Question 2

What is most similar systems design (MSS)?

Answer 2

-Cases that are similar but they have distinct outcomes. Logic here is that we can rule out the variables causing the phenomenon.

-Example: Outcome of Togo and Ghana differs because of their original colonizers.

Question 3

What are the approaches to comparative politics?

Answer 3

Rational choice: Rationalists being with assumptions about actors who act deliberatly to maximize their advantage (e.g, self interested behaviour).

Culturalists approach: Focus on the detailed understanding of cases: try to understand systems of meanings and values.

Structural approach: Examines how states and society interact, how society is structured. (e.g., political economy).

Question 4

What is most different systems design?

Answer 4

-Research design in which we compare cases that differ with respect to multiple factors but in which the outcome is the same.

Question 5

What are the distinct characteristics of modern colonialism?

Answer 5

1.Entire society manipulated and transformed according to colonial rulers (based on will to make societies subservient).

2.no willingness to grant cultural concessions to subjugated society.

3. Had racial ideological terms (ethnocentrism, Japense culture was advanced but they did not infringe it).

Question 6

What are difference elimination strategies?

Answer 6

1. Genocide (Kurds, Hutu)

2.Ethnic explosion (expulsion of Palestinians)

3.Assimilation (nation building of turkey)

4. Partition (divorce principle)

Question 7

What are difference management strategies?

Answer 7

1. Control: dominated society. (Iraq, Liberia, South Africa Taiwan and Canadian natives).
2. Territorial autonomy: federalism as method to grant sub unites self government (Canada, India and Switzerland)

3.Power sharing: more then federalism. Coalition government that enables self government in domains of most profound concern to ethnic communities (Lebanon and Northern Ireland).

Question 8

How did colonial state obstruct state building?

Answer 8

-Gradually expanding authority to chiefs and other indigenous authorities.