Unit 1
a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory
What is a Nation?
the branch of a government in charge of creating laws
What is the legislative branch?
Belief in limited governmental intervention in the economy and society; support for privatization, free trade, deregulation, and the elimination of state subsidies
What is Neoliberalism?
Majles
What is the legislative body of Iran?
Economic community of west African states
What is ECOWAS?
The ability to rule independently without interference
What is Sovereignty?
Mexico and Nigeria are both examples of this type of system
What is a Presidential system?
Extreme nationalist ideology that favors authoritarian rule and the rights of the ethnic majority over that of the ethnic minorities and the political opposition
What is Fascism?
3 major parties in Mexico
What is PRI, PAN, and Morena?
Provides financial and technical assistance for developing countries to reduce poverty and support economic development
What is the World Bank?
The rules and culture created by the government over time, i.e. the rules and norms.
What is a regime?
legal system where high courts make decisions that set precedents for future cases.
What is Common Law?
elections, referenda, Personal contact
What is Formal Participation?
The tradition of a president choosing his successor by pointing his finger at him in Mexico.
what is dedazo?
Removal of barriers and restrictions on what internal and external economic actors can do.
what is neoliberal economic policies?
a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government
What is a federal system?
these are put in place to limit executive authority and prevent tyranny and abuse of power
What are executive term limits?
Amerindian v. white and mestizo
what is a Ethnic cleavage Mexico?
At least three parties can compete for government power and control, while the other has multiple parties exist and can win seats, but one party wins a high percentage of election and has a virtual monopoly of power in government.
What is multiparty system vs dominant party system?
Privatization and increased competition in Mexico's oil industry.
What is PEMEX?
Measures the extent to which the distribution of income or consumption among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution
What is the Gini Index?
Question Time
What is a check on the prime minister of the United Kingdom?
Through political socialization agents, Family, School, Media, Peers, Religious institutions, Social environments
How is political culture transmitted?
Political parties whose members have a wide number of beliefs. They basically just want numbers and the leaders of the party set the belief, nevertheless individually the members have a wide variety and spectrum of political beliefs
governments making budget cuts to programs or raising taxes to balance its budget and decrease debt.
What is Austerity?