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“first-past-the-post” plurality rule of law 

advanced democracies nationalismauthoritarian regimes normative statements bicameral legislature parliamentary system bureaucracy patron-client systemcapitalism autocracy  causation covariancecivil society political cultureclientelism cleavagecommand economies political elitescommunism political frameworkscompetitive elections political ideologies

confederal system political socializationconservatism (political ideology) politicization of religionconstitutional courts presidential systemcorporatism privatizationcoup d’etat proportional representationdependency theory export-oriented industrializationdevolution distributive policiesdirect democracy radicalismelectoral systems reactionary beliefselites recruitment of elitesempirical datastatements reformfascism regimefederal system revolutionfragmentation “clash of civilizations”!reedom "ouse ratings social boundariesglobalization social cleavages#$% & #'% compressed modernity  government socialismhead of government sovereignty  head of state stateilliberal democracies successionindications of democratization “third wave” of democratizationindirect democracy third world

informal politics three-world approachinputs interest groupsinstitutions unitary systems udicial review unicameral legislaturelegitimacy modernismliberal democracies post-modernismliberalism (approach to economic change) democratic centralismliberalism (political ideology) post-industrializationlinkage institutions market-based socialismaoism arxism

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market economies sectors-of-the-economy  marketization supranational organizationarxism-*eninism democratizationmixed economies integrationmixed electoral system monetary policy  multi-member districts bourgeoisienation cooptationnation-state prebendalism

nomenklatura proletariatoligarchy nationalizationpolitical recruitment technocratpost-materialist values rent-seeking state%%% import substitutionseparation of powers social democracy  single-member district plurality correlationsocial mobility “vanguard of the revolution”structural adustment welfare stateimport-substitution