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Polsci140 umich exam
Ron Inglehart final exam study guitde
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Role of the German state (Lander) | select members of the bundesrat (upper chamber) to represent state interests. each state gets a number proportional to its size. |
| dual transition under yeltsin | both economic and political change from command to market and communism to democracy. not quite successful. continuation of what gorbachev did. |
| scheduled castes | certain amount of seats in indian parliament are set aside for lower castes |
| peace clause/ article 9 in Japan | japan can't have more army than needed for self defense |
| dominant party system | over time, one party happened to hold onto power the most through elections |
| single party regime | authoritarian, forced party that continually runs to win |
| politburo | highest body in the chinese communist party. does policy making. more executive than legislative, close friends of the leader. |
| electoral engineering | when not illegal is gerrymandering and malapportionment. when illegal is electoral fraud. used in japan and russia. |
| import substitution industrialization | replacing foreign imports with domestic products |
| (TVE) town and village enterprise | more market orientated, under review of local govt, not state owned. |
| state owned enterprise | india, mexico, russia, for tv, china |
| planned economy | when the govt plans what will be produces. less reliance on price system and supply and demand. |
| clientelism | long term relationship between voter and politician. |
| patronage | one time interaction, usually offering a job or other state resources to the voter rather than money or goods. |
| People's liberation army | the chinese army. reports to the party not to the state. |
| council of guardians | supports the supreme leader and makes sure that the law in the country are in accordance to islamic law. (in Iran) |
| cross cutting cleavages, give examples | - hinduism in india cross cuts upper and lower castes, - sense of nationalism - gender and religion |
| thatcherism | privatization of companies and govt services, tough with unions |
| German first ballot is | individual (SMD) |
| German second ballot is | party (PR) |
| economic protectionism | protecting against the influence of foreign goods |
| president of iran | hassan rouhani |
| president of china | xi jinping |
| president of germany | joachim gauck |
| prime minister in china | li keqiang |
| prime minister in india | narendra modi |
| president in india | pranab mukherjee |
| ruling coalition in germany | christian democrats |
| ruling coalition in japan | liberal democratic party |
| ruling coalition in mexico | PRI Partido revolucionario institucional |
| ruling party in india | bharatiya janata party |
| ruling party in iran | moderation and development party |
| ruling party in russia | united russia |
| electoral threshold | a party can only get representation in PR if it gains at least 5 % of the vote or 3 direct seats in SMD (in Germany) |
| Third Reich | hitler's fascist happy time |
| Weimar Republic | the crappy democracy in germany after ww1 lasting till hitler took over and ww2 |
| reunification of germany | 1990 east and west germany made back into one. |
| meiji restoration | restored the emperor in japan, made japan into a modernized nation |
| economic liberalization | lessening govt regulation in economy |
| nomenklatura | communist bureaucracy in USSR |
| leninist vanguard party | most informed members of the working class mobilize to lead their fellow, less-informed members of the population to understand the party and get involved in politics |
| great purges under stalin | 1934-1940. killing opposition or sending them to siberia gulags. |
| economic protectionism | restricting trade between states through tariffs and other gov regulations |
| oligarch | rich businessman with a lot of political influence, oligarchy is small group of people in power in a political system |
| soviet "era of stagnation" | started with brezhnev |
| maoism | central idea permanent revolution and stressing the importance of the peasantry, of small-scale industry, and of agricultural collectivization |
| deng's southern tour | |
| CCP | chinese communist party |
| national people's congress | china's legislature, involves the central committee |
| great leap forward | simultaneous development of industry and agriculture, increase in size of collective farms, |
| cultural revolution | |
| confucianism | ordered hierarchy of harmonious relationships |
| long march | 1934 nationalist offensive pushed commies into retreat to the caves of yanan in chinese NW where mao built the idea of rural revolution |
| duverger's law | a principle that asserts that plurality rule elections structured within single-member districts tend to favor a two-party system. |
| median voter theorem | a majority rule voting system will select the outcome most preferred by the median voter |
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