Midterm Review Quiz

Question 1

Who were the main actors in bureaucratic authoritarian regimes?

Accepted Answer

Military and private sector technocrats

Question 2

What is the research design employed by Kurtz (2009)?

Accepted Answer

Most Similar Systems Design (MSSD)

Question 3

The encomienda system was one of the main characteristics of mercantilistic colonialism

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Which of the following was a key domestic factor contributing to democratic breakdown in LA during the mid-20th century?

Accepted Answer

Redistributive struggles

Question 5

ISI was a policy program intended to slow down domestic manufacturing by incubating industries at early stage

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

I will do amazing in this midterm!

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What were the main Indigenous empires before colonization?

Accepted Answer

Maya, Inca, Aztec

Question 8

What of the following are NOT characteristics of 20th century Latin American Populism?

Accepted Answer

Ideologically coherent policy platforms

Question 9

What is state corporatism?

Accepted Answer

State-group relations characterized by noncompetitive business associations

Question 10

What events contributed to ECLA/CEPAL economists' discontent with economic liberalism?

Accepted Answer

Great Depression and WWII

Question 11

What cases were particularly successful in implementing ISI (according to Baer)?

Accepted Answer

Mexico and Brazil

Question 12

Under ISI, what is the term used for when a new industry creates demand for inputs from other domestic industries?

Accepted Answer

Backward Linkages

Question 13

What is the central puzzle Wood (2003) seeks to explain in her study of the Civil War in El Salvador?

Accepted Answer

Why ordinary people participated in high-risk insurgent activity

Question 14

What was the practice of tribute?

Accepted Answer

Wealth, often in-kind, given as a sign of respect/submission/allegiance

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