Unit 1: Political Systems, Regimes, and Governments
The only theocratic course country.
What is Iran?
The power of a court to review laws to determine if they are constitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
The lifelong process of acquiring one’s beliefs, values, and orientations towards the political system.
What is Political Socialization?
A system in which a percentage of seats in an elected legislature are saved for women.
What is a Gender Quota?
The global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations.
What is the World Trade Organization?
The 4 requirements of a state.
What is Permanent Population, Governing Institutions, Defined Territory, and International Recognition?
A system where the executive is chosen by the legislature and can be removed by a vote of no confidence.
What is a Parliamentary System?
The ability of a state to influence the conduct of individuals and organizations within the state.
What is Power?
The name of the body charged with overseeing the implementation of the election process of any country.
What is the Independent Election Commission?
In the 1980s, the governments of China and Great Britain promoted this.
What are Free Market Economies?
The law is applied arbitrarily, and government officials are not subject to the same laws and penalties as citizens.
What is Rule by Law?
The United Kingdom's bicameral legislature.
What is the House of Commons and the House of Lords?
This country’s politics are shaped by ethnic cleavages that often contribute to conflict and challenge national political stability.
What is Nigeria?
The name of the legislature under the People’s Republic of China.
What is the National People’s Committee?
Investments made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests located in another country.
What is a Foreign Direct Investment?
A citizen’s belief that his or her actions can impact the government.
What is Political Efficacy?
Iran’s popularly elected lawmaking body.
What are the Majles?
A shift to prioritizing social values of self-expression and quality of life issues such as environmental issues and economic equality.
What is Post-Materialism?
A Nigerian militant Islamist group that seeks the imposition of Sharia law throughout all 36 states of Nigeria.
What is Boko Harem?
A corporate organization that owns or controls production of goods and services in at least one country other than its home country.
What is a Multinational Corporation?
The 3 types of legitimacy.
Traditional, Charismatic, and Rational/Legal
This term describes informal power that persists regardless of formal constitutional authority, often rooted in political culture or party dominance.
What is de facto power?
This process allows citizens to vote directly on policy questions, as exemplified by the UK in 2016 about leaving the EU.
What is a Referendum?
A political party whose aim is to gather support from a broad range of citizens through de-emphasis of ideology and emphasis on pragmatism, charismatic leadership, and marketing.
What is a Catch-All Party?
Typically, countries rich in natural resources (rentier states) often experience slower economic development and more corruption due to this phenomenon.
What is the Resource Curse?