democracy - 2025 ACF Nationals

Bonus

On a scale from -10 to 10, countries with a “Polity score” above 6 get this designation in the partly CIA-funded Polity IV Project. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this type of government. In 2016, an index from The Economist Group downgraded the U.S. from a “full” one to a “flawed” one.

ANSWER: democracy [or democratic government; accept full democracy; accept flawed democracy]

[10m] Another democracy index is run by the V-Dem Institute in this country, which ranked this country first on its 2023 Liberal Component Index. Alva Myrdal and her husband helped design this country’s folkhemmet welfare state.

ANSWER: Sweden [or Kingdom of Sweden; or Konungariket Sverige] (The husband is Gunnar Myrdal.)

[10h] This Polish-born political scientist defends a “minimalist conception” of democracy in which power changes hands without bloodshed. He and Henry Teune proposed “most similar” and “least similar” systems designs in The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry.

ANSWER: Adam Przeworski (“psheh-VOR-skee”)

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Total	Parts
Arizona State	Georgia Tech	10	10	20	EM
Chicago A	British Columbia	10	0	10	E
Chicago B	NYU	10	10	20	EM
Columbia B	North Carolina B	10	10	20	EM
Harvard	LSE	10	10	20	EM
Indiana	Cornell B	10	10	20	EM
MIT	Iowa State	10	10	20	EM
Maryland	Waterloo A	10	10	20	EM
North Carolina A	Cornell A	10	0	10	E
Northwestern	Virginia Tech	10	10	20	EM
Ottawa	Vanderbilt	10	10	20	EM
Rutgers	Penn State	10	10	20	EM
Stanford	UC Berkeley B	10	10	20	EM
Toronto A	Waterloo B	10	10	20	EM
Toronto B	Columbia A	10	0	10	E
UC Berkeley A	Texas	10	10	20	EM
UCF	Johns Hopkins	10	0	10	E
Virginia	RIT	10	10	20	EM
WUSTL B	Minnesota	10	10	20	EM
Winona State	Michigan	10	10	20	EM
Yale	WUSTL A	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	21	18.10	100%	81%	0%