Civil Society
Civil society is defined as the ability of citizens to form groups _______ the government's control.
What is outside?
This is known as a set of widely held attitudes, values, and beliefs about government and politics.
What is political culture?
This type of political participation includes protest, civil disobedience, and political violence (including terrorism).
What is informal political participation?
These are fundamental rights and freedoms protected from infringement from the government.
What are civil liberties?
This cleavage is a division based on ethnicity, race, religion, class, or territory.
What is social cleavage?
These types of regimes impose only a few government constraints on civil society.
What are democratic regimes?
This is known as the process through which an individual learns about politics and is taught about society's common political values and beliefs.
What is political socialization?
This type of political violence deliberately targets civilians to influence the behavior and actions of the government.
What is terrorism?
These are positive actions taken by the government to prevent people from being discriminated against when engaged in fundamental political actions (such as voting).
What are civil rights?
This type of cleavage is a division based on different ideas about the role of government and policymaking goals.
What is political cleavage?
Name one example of an example of civil society that is not an interest group.
What is a club, sports team, etc.?
This economic ideology is similar to individualism (in its emphasis of freedom), but instead of focusing on the individual, the ideology focuses in a broader belief in limiting government intervention in the economy.
What is neoliberalism?
This is one example of formal political participation.
What are voting in elections and on referendums, contacting government officials, joining political groups, working on a campaign, and donating money to a cause or candidate?
These are some examples of civil liberties.
What are freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and the right to peaceably assemble?
This country has a social cleavage between its working class and upper class citizens.
Authoritarian regimes pass these types of laws in order to monitor civil society groups?
What are vague laws?
This political ideology is based off the idea that the government should put the rights and interests of the common people above the elites.
What is populism?
_______ are policy issues that are sent by the government to voters to vote on whether they should become laws.
This country passed a law that required political parties to run at least 50% female candidates for the legislature in an effort to increase equality.
What is Mexico?
This country has made an effort to protect its ethnic cleavages by constitutionally requiring presidential candidates to win 25% of the votes in two-thirds of the states to win election (in addition to get a majority of votes across the country).
What is Nigeria?
This is one way that interest groups differ from political parties.
What is "interest groups do not run candidates for office?
This political ideology emphasizes the rights of the majority, oppresses minority groups, and supports strong authoritarian rule.
What is fascism?
This is a reason for why authoritarian regimes may allow small protests to occur. Hint: the term we're looking for only uses two words.
What is to serve as a "safety valve"?
This is the main difference between civil liberties and civil rights.
What is civil rights are positive actions taken by the government (to protect citizens from discrimination), whereas civil liberties are fundamental freedoms protected from government action?
This type of state allows regions to protect ethnic or religious minorities by giving that region power to pass its own laws.
What is a federalist state?