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CHAPTERS 2 & 3: TYPES OF DEMOCRACY and
TYPES of NON-DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEMS (D)
(THESE PAGES ARE IN THE ROSS TEXT ONLY, NOT GITELSON: 7, 13, 24-25, 85,
94, 328-9, 363, 389)
I. Types
of Democracy:
A. Direct (Gitelson, p. 16, margin)
A1. Face-to-face
a. Ancient
b.
A2. Democracy by Petition: used
only at state and local levels of government (Ross,
p. 328-329)
a.
Initiative (including Proposition 13- local government property tax reduction)
b.
Referendum (rarely used)
[c.
Recall election]
A3. Electronic
Democracy (Ross text, p. 389- Ross
Perot’s ‘electronic town meetings)
B. Indirect:
Representative Democracy [Republic]
(Gitelson, p. 16, margin)
B1. Requires
protection for rights of minorities
B2. Requires
widespread distribution of power so that no person or group of people has all
the power
B3. Requires
elections giving voters significant choices
B4. Requires
widespread participation in decision-making
B5. Requires
majority rule for some decisions
II. Non-democratic
forms of government:
Tyranny
Despotism
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Totalitarianism
Absolute
rule
Authoritarian
rule
Autocracy
Theocracy
A. Allows a small area of privacy or allows no privacy at
all
B. Allow no parties or only one party
C. May be either military or civilian
D. May be either religious or non-religious (secular)
iii. Study
questions FOR “
301.
What is another name for representative democracy?
302.
What are two types of democracy?
303.
What are two examples of face-to-face democracy?
304.
What are the three types of direct democracy listed above?
305.
How many types of democracy by petition are listed above?
306.
The initiative
is an example of what type of direct democracy?
307.
How many types of non-democratic forms of government can you name when you test yourself
after studying the list above?
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401.
13 British colonies
that became the original
402.
2 newest states:
403.
11 states of the Confederate
States of America (‘Confederacy’
or ‘South’)
404.
4 slave states that did not leave the
405.
6 New England
States: Massachusetts (MA), Maine (ME), Connecticut (CT), Rhode Island
(RI), New Hampshire (NH), Vermont (VT).
V. constitutional provisions that protected slavery
501. Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 – p. xxv
502.
Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 1 – p.
xxii
503.
Article IV, Section 2, Paragraph
3 – p.xxix