Comparative Government vocabulary and definitions.
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| show | Questions that deal with how the world should be
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| show | Organizations that exert a monopoly of violence or force over a territory
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| show | A state where the political power is concentrated in the national capital!
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| Federal State | show 🗑
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| Rentier | show 🗑
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| show | A human community with shared culture, history, psychological sense of identity; based on culture, geographic, linguistic ties
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| Country | show 🗑
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| show | norms and rules regulating individual freedoms and collective equality
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| show | Group of people who share a distractive cultural and economic organization, as well as set of values and norms
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| Government | show 🗑
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| Institutions | show 🗑
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| show | The struggle for power that gives winners the ability to make decisions affecting others; who gets what, when, and how
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| show | patterns of basic norms relating to politics; includes history, values, beliefs, traditions; influences political behavior
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| Legitimacy | show 🗑
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| show | legitimacy derived from a long-standing tradition of being obeyed
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| Charismatic Legitimacy | show 🗑
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| Rational-legal Legitimacy | show 🗑
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| show | a state’s ability to carry out actions independently
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| Legislature | show 🗑
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| show | A legislature with two chambers
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| Unicameral | show 🗑
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| Executive | show 🗑
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| show | leader who deals with everyday tasks of running the state
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| Head of state | show 🗑
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| show | A major revision or overthrow of basic institutions
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| show | Apparent association between certain factors or variables
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| show | When a change in one variable causes a change in another
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| Political Cleavage | show 🗑
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| show | A division that includes people with differences, strengthening society
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| Coinciding Cleavages | show 🗑
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| show | System of government where the people choose policymakers in free, fair, and competitive elections
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| show | A democracy with political competition, economic freedom, civil rights and liberties
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| show | A democracy where some personal liberties and democratic rights are limited
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| show | A hybrid of liberalism and communism; values on both equality and individual freedoms; mixed welfare state
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| show | A system of government that emphasizes economic equality rather than individual political and economic freedoms; includes collective property (state ownership) and a dominant state
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| show | regimes that limit the role of the public in decision making and deny citizens’ basic rights and restrict their freedoms
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| Corporatism | show 🗑
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| Cooptation | show 🗑
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| show | A system of government where the leader claims to rule on behalf of God
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| show | Universal sets of political values regarding the fundamental goals of politics; ideal balance between freedom and equality
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| show | A political ideology that places a high priority on individual political and economic freedoms; favors economic equality, private property, capitalism, and protection
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| Libertarian | show 🗑
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| Political Attitude | show 🗑
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| show | A political attitude that supports evolutionary change within a system
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| show | A political attitude that promotes rapid change to restore political, social, and economic institutions that once existed
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| Radicalism | show 🗑
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| Conservatism | show 🗑
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| show | The pride in one’s country or culture
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| show | political attitude hostile to the idea of individual freedom and rejects notion of equality
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| Proportional Representation | show 🗑
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| First Past the Post/Single Member District | show 🗑
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| Mixed electoral system | show 🗑
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| show | The study of how politics and economics are related
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| show | high level of development based on industrialization, GDP, HDI, etc.
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| show | countries with low standards of democratic governments, industrialization, social programs, and human rights guarantees
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| Under-developed Countries | show 🗑
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| Neoliberal Economic Reforms | show 🗑
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| show | The total market value of goods and services produced in a country in one year, measured in US dollars. Tool for evaluating size of economy.
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| PPP | show 🗑
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| show | Commonly used measurer of economic inequality; equality = 0 and inequality = 100.
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| show | a measure produced by the United Nations to measure standards of living; considers a variety of factors of affluence such as health and education
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| Globalization | show 🗑
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| show | Groups that connect the people to the government, such as political parties, interest groups, print and electronic media
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| show | structure and set of regulations in place to control activity, usually in large organizations and government
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| Marxism | show 🗑
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| show | vanguard of the proletariat, which is that the people with an understanding of Marxism would help the proletariat revolutionize
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| show | The government decides, plans, and controls the economy
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| Economic Liberalization | show 🗑
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| show | Transformation process from a nondemocratic regime to a procedural democracy to a substantive democracy
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| Democratic deficit | show 🗑
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| Devolution | show 🗑
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| show | Branch of government where people work for merit
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| Civil service | show 🗑
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| show | Place where political conflict and competition takes place; comprises organizations outside the state that help the people define and advance their own interests
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| show | states provide benefits to groups of political supporters
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| show | – an economic development strategy emphasizing growth of domestic industries by using tariff protection
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| show | Group of individuals who share common goals and try to influence public policy to meet these goals
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| NGOs (Nongovernmental organizations) | show 🗑
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| show | Mechanism through which the court reviews laws and policies and overturns those seen as violations of the constitution
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| show | a system of government featuring an executive head of government (prime minister) elected from the legislature who is the leader of the largest political party; he and his cabinet are charged with formulating and executing policy
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| show | Extreme patron-clientelism; common in Nigeria
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| Presidential system | show 🗑
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| show | A system of government that includes a prime minister approved by the legislature and a directly elected president; they share executive power
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| show | Selling state-owned company
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| show | Direct vote yes/no policy; examples: Tony Blair for adopting of euro (considered) and Putin for Russia policy
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| Rule of law | show 🗑
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| Supranational organization | show 🗑
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| Technocrat | show 🗑
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| Totalitarianism | show 🗑
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| Fusion of powers | show 🗑
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| Socialism | show 🗑
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| show | Favors fundamental, drastic, revolutionary changes in society
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| Nationalism | show 🗑
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| show | Interaction between forces and supply and demand that allocate the goods and resources
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