1 What are the two central ideas of the article? (A) Many countries can be considered truly democratic if they meet certain criteria; it can be
difficult to identify authoritarianism because a leader's title does not indicate the form of
government.
(B) Many countries today claim that their citizens live in democracies; the only countries that
are actually democracies are Great Britain, France, Japan and the United States.
(C) Governments can be categorized loosely as either democratic or authoritarian; the freedoms
of democracy are largely rejected by authoritarian regimes.
(D) Governments all fall under the categories of either democracy or authoritarianism; some
nations change back and forth between the two through their histories.