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Chap. 8 Quiz 2 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| capitalism | people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them with the goal of achieving profit |
| commodification | when something is given monetary value |
| core | higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology; generate more wealth than periphery processes in world economy |
| periphery | lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology; generate less wealth than core processes in world economy |
| semi-periphery | places where core and periphery processes are both occurring; places that are exploited by the core, but in turn exploit the periphery |
| ability | in the context of political power, the capacity of a state to influence other states or achieve its goals through diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means |
| centripetal | forces that tend to unify a country |
| centrifugal | forces that tend to divide a country |
| unitary | a nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state |
| federal | a political territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state |
| devolution | regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government |
| territorial representation | each representative is elected from a territoriality defined district |
| reapportionment | representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people |
| splitting | the process by which the majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts |
| majority-minority districts | an electoral district, in which the majority of the constituents in the district are nonwhite or racial or ethnic minorities |
| gerrymandering | manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class. |
| boundary | vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above the surface |
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