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GOV 133
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Government | The institutions and processes through which societies are governed |
| Institution | A formal or informal organization or practice with rules and procedures, marked by durability and internal complexity |
| Governance | The process by which decisions, laws, and policies are made with or without the input of formal institutions |
| State | The legal political authority of a territory containing a population an marked by borders |
| Sovereignty | The ability to govern and to make descions within a political community without reference to external or internal challengers or actors |
| Legitimacy | The condition of being legitimate. A legitimate state is one based on authority and on a recognition of that authority by its citizens and by other states |
| Citizenship | The idea of being a full member of a state entitled to the rights and subject to the duties associated with that status, and typically confirmed in a document such as a passport or identity card |
| Quasi-states | States that exist and are recognized under international law but whose governments control little of the territory under their jurisdiction |
| De facto states | States that are not recognized under international law even though they control territory and provide governance. They exist in fact (de facto) rather than under law (de jure). |
| Nation | A cultural and historical concept describing a group of people who identify with one another on the basis of a shared history, culture, language, or myths |
| Self-determination | The ability to act without external compulsion. The right of national self-determination is the right of a people to possess its own government |
| Nation-state | A state whose citizens share a common national identity |
| Multinational state | A state consisting of multiple different national groups under a single government |
| Regional integration | The process by which states build economic and political ties that result in some pooling of authority over area of policy where they believe that cooperation is better than competition |
| Nationalism | The belief that a group of people with a common national identity (usually marked by a shared culture and history) has the right to form an independent state and to govern itself free of external intervention |
| Xenophobia | The fear, rejection, or exclusion of those defined as foreigners in a community or a state, closely related to racism and to nativism |
| Nativism | the view that the interests of natives should be favoured over those of immigrants |
| Unitary System | One in which sovereignty rests with the national government, and regional or local units have few independent powers |
| Federal System | One in which sovereignty is shared between two or more levels of government each with independent powers and responsibilities otherwise known as a federation |
| Multi-level Governance | An administrative system in which power is distributed an shared horizontally and vertically among different levels of government, from the supernational to the local with considerable interaction among the parts |
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