Exec/Leg/Jud
The term of the executive in a specified number of years
Term of Office
Legal right exercise power on behalf of society and/or gov't
Authority
Name for a government created when one party fails to win a majority of seats
Coalition government
British medical system
National Health Service (NHS)
The countries that comprise the United Kingdom
Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England
Power of committees of lawmakers to oversee the bureaucracy
legislative oversight
Rather than patronage, a way to staff the bureaucracy of state
Civil-service system
FPTP is just another term for SMD
First-Past-the-Post
Raising taxes and/or cutting spending to try to reduce the deficit and the national debt
Austerity Measures
UK Supreme Court judges don't have this
Judicial Review
How does a parliamentary system expel an unwanted Prime Minister
Who appoints justices in the British parliamentary system
the Monarch (the PM "recommends")
How to citizens vote for Prime Minister in the UK?
by voting for an individual to represent their district. The party then selects the PM
Government programs to benefit the health and well being of citizens.
The European Union is this type of organization
Supranational
Legal philosophy that follows the law as written
Code Law
Principle that parliament's power is supreme and extends over all aspects of the state
Parliamentary Sovereignty
Name THREE of the major political parties in the UK
Conservative (or Tory), Labour, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National Party (SNP)
These policies reduce government regulations on businesses and encourage free trade
Economic-liberalization policies
Two course countries have no term limits on the executive. Name them.
China and the UK
In this course country, judges of the highest court must retire at age seventy
Nigeria
Name two of the powers of The House of Lords
Review bills
Amend bills
delay budgetary bills for up to a month or other legislation for one year
There are FIVE different party systems in our course countries. Name them.
one-party (CH), fluid (Iran), multiparty (MX), two-party (NG, UK), Single-party dominant (RUS)
Economy in which wages prices, and production are mostly set by supply and demand, with some regulation, and mostly private control of businesses and natural resources
Regulated market economy
Ye olde event that finally gave Britain increasing power over the monarchy
Glorious Revolution of 1688