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Economics
Chapter 6 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assemblies | groups of people who meet to make laws. |
| Authoritarian regimes | regimes in which policymakers are chosen by military councils or political parties, or inherit it. |
| Bicameralism | House and Senate |
| Bureaucracy | large administrative agencies reflecting a hierarchical authority, job specialization, and rules and regulations that drive them |
| Cabinet | persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers |
| Chief executives | the head of government and head of state |
| Civil service | the group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government |
| Coalition cabinet | when several parties join forces and they would all be represented |
| Confederal system | the centralized government has authority over foreign affairs and defense, but depends on the states for financial and other support |
| Confidence relationship | the relationship between the prime minister and parliament which makes a parliamentary regime successful |
| Constitutional regimes | systems in which the powers of various government units are defined and limited by a written constitution, statutes, and custom |
| Corruption | abuses of political power for personal gain |
| Decision rules | basic rules governing how decisions are made |
| Democracy | a political system in which citizens enjoy a number of basic civil and political rights |
| Democratic presidential regime | two separate agencies of the government separately elected and authorized by the people |
| Dismissal power | the parliamentary majority’s power to require the prime minister and all cabinet members to resign |
| Dissolution power | the prime minister’s power to dissolve parliament and call new elections |
| Divided government | when the party that controls the presidency doesn’t control the legislature |
| Federal system | both central and state governments have separate spheres of authority and means to implement power |
| Higher civil service | 3,000 permanent members who spend their lives as an elite corps who constantly moving ministries (and remain constant throughout governments) gaining increasingly more policymaking power as they rise in rank |
| Impeachment | the removal of presidents, but typically only if they are guilty of serious crimes or other wrongdoings |
| Judicial review | high courts rule on challenges that other unit of government have exceeded the powers allocated by the constitution |
| Minority cabinet | a single-party cabinet. This occurs when the other parties disagree too much among themselves to offer any alternative |
| Mirroring (descriptive representation) | government officials should mirror the characteristics of citizens as far as possible |
| Ombudsman | a legal advocate for residents who visits the facility, listens to residents, and decides what course of action to take if there is a problem |
| Parliamentary regimes | make the executive and legislative branches much more interdependent |
| Policymaking | deciding which proposals will become authoritative rules |
| Semipresidential | the president and legislature are separately elected but the president also has power to dissolve the legislature |
| Separation of powers | montesquieu, locke, and madison all argued for this to prevent the injustice from an unchecked legislature or executive |
| Unitary system | power and authority is concentrated in the central government, regional and local units have only limited powers specifically delegated to them by the central government, which may change or withdraw these powers at will |
| Women as chief executives | from 1970 on, women have gained chief executive office in a growing number of countries. Many of these early leaders were from Asian and Middle Eastern countries, where women’s role in public life traditionally have been limited |
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