Length: 800 words (not including works cited)
It requires 3 parts. Assignments will be graded for the clarity and logic of your argument, as well as the strength of your evidence. Be sure to cite sources with APA style.
When you made any citation, you should include the page number. For example: …. (smith, 2007, p.11)
- Part I: Your country today
Which type of government does your country have today (i.e. 2015)? Is it an authoritarian regime, an installed democracy, or a consolidated democracy?
Offer 3 measures of its current government. Discuss.
Then, offer a detailed discussion of the type of government your country has today.
To answer part I:
è Hong Kong – partly free (authoritarian regime)
è3 Measures are: 1) Freedom House, 2) Polity IV Project: Country Reports 1946-2013. 3) Alvarez, Mike, José Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi, and Adam Przeworski
1) Freedom House
Table I: Scores: 1-7 (1 – most free; 7 – most not free)
| Year | Status | Freedom Score | Political Rights | Civil Liberties |
| Year before 1979 | Free | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 1979-1987 | Partly free | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 1988-1992 | Partly free | 3.5 | 4 | 3 |
| 1993-1994 | Partly free | 3.5 | 5 | 2 |
| 1995-1996 | Partly free | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 1997 | Partly free | 4.5 | 6 | 3 |
| 1998-2003 | Partly free | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 2004-2014 | Partly free | 3.5 | 5 | 2 |
(Freedom House, 2015)
2) Polity
Code the U.K. before 1997 (turnover in 1997) with score 10. (Democracy)
Code China after 1997 with score -7 (not free; authoritarian)
3) Alvarez, et al.
before 1997, the united Kingdom (parliamentarism regime)
After 1997, China (autocracy and bureaucracy)
