Understanding Democracy: A Comprehensive Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

as the world's third largest democracy, Indonesia's 2004 legislative election was the most complicated in the world.

the Social Democrats under leader Hjalmar Branting won the Swedish general election in 1921, the first fully democratic parliamentary election in Sweden.

under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049.

William Phelps was foreman of the first grand jury in colonial America and played a key role in establishing the first written democratic town government at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1657.

José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy.

Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia.

Golden Liberty, the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to federation and democracy, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding monarchies.

Pedro Vuskovic's plan to move Chile's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession.

Understanding Democracy: A Comprehensive Quiz

1 Democracy is a political ________ carried out either directly by the people (direct democracy) or by means of elected representatives of the people (Representative democracy).

2 Who played Rose Greig in the movie Democracy?

3 ________ is a political system where the citizens participate in the decision-making personally, contrary to relying on intermediaries or representatives. The supporters of direct democracy argue that democracy is more than merely a procedural issue.

4 Economic malaise in the 1980s, along with resentment of communist oppression, contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the associated end of the ________, and the democratization and liberalization of the former Eastern bloc countries.

5 Fascism and dictatorships flourished in Nazi Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal, as well as nondemocratic regimes in the Baltics, the ________, Brazil, Cuba, China, and Japan, among others.

6 In the 1920s democracy flourished, but the ________ brought disenchantment, and most of the countries of Europe, Latin America, and Asia turned to strong-man rule or dictatorships.

7 The ________ rarely praised and often criticized democracy, which in their time tended to specifically mean direct democracy; James Madison argued, especially in The Federalist No.

8 What role did Mrs. Hubert Willis play in the movie Democracy?

9 Who played Gerald Tudworth in the movie Democracy?

10 ________, Liberty or Equality

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