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CH 1 & 2 Gov
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Authority | The legal right or power to give orders and enforce rules |
| Government | Institution and officals organized to establish and carry out public policy |
| Power | The ability to cause other to behave as they might not otherwise |
| Legitimacy | The qulity of being accepted as an authority, often applied to laws or those in power |
| Public Good | A product or service that is available for all people to consume, whether they pay for it or not |
| Nation-State | An independent state, especially one in which the people share a common culture |
| Sovereignty | The right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region, a group of people, or oneself |
| Politics | The process and method of making decisions for groups, although generally applied to governments |
| Institution | An established organization, especially one providing a public service, and the rules that guide it |
| Democracy | A system of government in which citizens exercise supreme power, acting either directly on their own or through elected representatives |
| Monarchy | System of government in which a single ruler exercises supreme power base on hereditary or divine right, right to rule passes from one generation of the ruling family to the next |
| Dictatorship | System of government in which a single person or group exercises supreme power by controlling military and police |
| Market Economy | Economic system that relies mainly on markets to determine what goods and services to produce and how to produce them |
| Traditional Economy | Economic system in which decisions about what to produce and how are made on the basis of customs, belief, tradition |
| Republic | Nation in which supreme power rests with the citizens and is exercised by their elected representatives |
| Parliament | Legislative assembly in which elected representatives debate and vote on proposed laws |
| Command Economy | Economic system that relies mainly on the central government to determine what goods and services to produce and how to produce them |
| Theocracy | System of government where priests rule in the name of God |
| Direct Democracy | a form of government in which policies and laws are decided by a majority of all those eligible rather than by a body of elected representatives |
| Presidential Democracy | Citizens vote for a president who becomes the head of state, the head of government, meaning they oversee its day-to-day operations |
| Federal System | System of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government |
| Single Party State | Type of sovereign state in which only one political party has the right to form the government |
| Parliamentary Democracy | Government in which citizens elect representatives to a legislative branch and then the legislative branch elects an executive branch. |
| Unitary System | Sovereign state governed as a single entity, central government is supreme, and the administrative divisions exercise only powers that the central government has delegated to them |
| Confederal System | Form of government in which sovereignty is wholly on the hands of the states and local governments |
| Communism | A political system in which the government owns and controls all resources and means of production and makes all economic decisions |
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