A besvarelse på to dagers hjemme eksamen i sampol116, som inkluderer store deler av hele fagets pensum.

OPPGAVETEKST:
Questions
Parts I and II below are to be integrated into one cohesive essay. It is suggested that you devote approximately 30% of the space to Part I and 70% to Part II. To repeat: these parts are not to be treated as separate essays. Rather, you are to use them as components of one essay with a key guiding and unifying argument.

Part I

The course

A besvarelse på to dagers hjemme eksamen i sampol116, som inkluderer store deler av hele fagets pensum.

OPPGAVETEKST:
Questions
Parts I and II below are to be integrated into one cohesive essay. It is suggested that you devote approximately 30% of the space to Part I and 70% to Part II. To repeat: these parts are not to be treated as separate essays. Rather, you are to use them as components of one essay with a key guiding and unifying argument.

Part I

The course material that you should draw upon includes Teorell as well as the readings included in Parts III.D.i and IV.C of the course reading list. You are asked to choose four variables that affect regime change (aka “regime stability” – more or less movement forwards or backwards) and explain the theoretical causal mechanisms that link your four chosen independent variables to the dependent variable. From the range of course readings identified above, you are to select a minimum of four chapters and/or articles as sources for explaining the causal mechanisms that link these variables to regime stability. You are not allowed to use any of these chapters or articles in Part II below.

Part II

While Part I focused on theory, Part II focuses on evidence. From the set of four independent variables explained in Part I, choose only two of them to focus upon in Part II. You should devote an approximately equal amount of time to discussing regime change under democracy and regime change under autocracy. See the 2x2 matrix below which identifies four tasks. You are to select a minimum of three chapters/articles which are unique to each cell – hence a minimum of 12 sources altogether (none of which were used in Part I). For each of the four tasks, describe findings related to the effects your two independent variables have upon the dependent variable and discuss the strengths and/or weaknesses of the findings with respect to the type of data analyzed.

Please be advised:
You are to utilize literature drawn exclusively from the SAMPOL116 reading list and lecture materials, and all the substantive/descriptive content of your essay (as opposed to your own arguments and analyses) must be explicitly grounded in references to course content, including page numbers. A more detailed and analytical utilization of course readings will be significantly rewarded. Include a reference list that presents only those sources that were utilized. Lecture notes can be referenced in the body of the text as (Alvarez 2025), and the bibliographic entry for the lecture notes can be the following:

Alvarez, Michael. 2025. Lectures, SAMPOL116.

Qualitative Data
Quantitative Data

Regime Change
Under Autocracy
Three articles/chapters

Empirical evidence regarding the effects of your two independent variables and discussion of strengths/weaknesses of findings based upon this type of data.
Three articles/chapters

Empirical evidence regarding the effects of your two independent variables and discussion of strengths/weaknesses of findings based upon this type of data.

Regime Change
Under Democracy
Three articles/chapters

Empirical evidence regarding the effects of your two independent variables and discussion of strengths/weaknesses of findings based upon this type of data.
Three articles/chapters

Empirical evidence regarding the effects of your two independent variables and discussion of strengths/weaknesses of findings based upon this type of data.