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Examine the comparative advantages of democracy and autocracy in restraining political violence. Do you think that autocratic societies are more prone to political violence? Illustrate your answer with a comparative study of a few societies.

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  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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Political violence covers rebellion, riot and terrorism from below and repression from above. A Hobbesian intuition holds that concentrated power keeps order, and Samuel P. Huntington (Political Order in Changing Societies, 1968) put order before liberty in modernising states. The comparative evidence supports a more qualified answer: regime type matters less than whether institutions accommodate…

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  • The case for autocracy
  • The case for democracy
  • Is autocracy more prone?
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