This system has the executive and legislative branches fused together.
What is parliamentary?
100
The seats of the legislature in this system are determined by the percentage of votes a party receives in an election.
What is proportional representation?
100
These countries made up the second world.
What are communist countries?
100
A political system that has internal and external sovereignty.
What is a state?
100
The process by which countries incorporate elections and civil liberties into their societies and liberalize their economy.
What is democratization?
200
The head of state and head of government are one person in this system.
What is presidential?
200
This system is likely to create a two party system.
What is single-member district plurality (SMDP)?
200
This system of government has democracy with liberty.
What is consolidated democracy?
200
The fundamental rules and norms of politics. It includes the institutions and practices that endure from government to government, such as the constitutional order in a democracy.
What is a regime?
200
The attitudes, beliefs, and symbols that influence political behavior.
What is political culture?
300
Great Britain is an example of this system.
What is parliamentary?
300
This is the term given to the winner who gets the most, not the majority, of the votes in an election.
What is plurality?
300
This system of government has democracy without liberty.
What is procedural democracy?
300
A hierarchical organization where officials administer regulations codified in rules that specify impersonal, objective guidelines for making decisions.
What is a bureaucracy?
300
Differences in nations, race, ethnicities, language, religion, and socio-economic status.
What are political cleavages?
400
Nigeria is an example of this system.
What is presidential?
400
Coalition governments are a likely result of this system of elections.
What is proportional representation?
400
A country with a Freedom House rating of 7s would be considered this.
What is an authoritarian state?
400
A system in which all individuals and groups, including those in government, are subject to the law, irrespective of their power or authority.
What is rule of law?
400
Space occupied by voluntary associations outside the state that influence the state.
What is civil society?
500
Russia is an example of this system.
What is mixed?
500
In this kind of system, voters may or may not know the names of the candidates they are voting for.
What is proportional representation?
500
A country that has high literacy rates, a GDP per capita of $32,000, and a life expectancy of 79 would most likely be this kind of government.
What is consolidated democracy?
500
A country where the power is concentrated in one legislative body is called this.
What is unitary?
500
A value whereby an institution is accepted by the public as right and proper, thus giving it power and authority.