NIGERIA
The leader of Nigeria. (include title)
Who is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu?
The leader of China (include title)
Who is President Xi Jinping?
The President of Iran.
100 point Bonus: Name the Supreme leader.
Who is Ebrahim Raisi?
Who is Ali Khamenei?
The leader of Mexico. (include title)
Who is President Andrés Manuel López Obrador? (AMLO)
The leader of Russia.
200 point BONUS:
Number of years he has served as leader. (how many more years did he just get "elected" for?)
Who is President Vladimir Putin?
19 (not consecutive), another six.
The leader of the United Kingdom. (include title)
Who is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak?
Name the three UNITARY course countries.
Where is UK, Iran and China?
The National Question is a central feature of the political process in Nigeria due to the _____________ in Nigeria along religious and regional divides.
What are Cleavages?
The phrase "one country, two systems" came out of an agreement signed by Britain and China concerning WHAT territory that had been under British control for most of the 20th century. [This may have been declared almost null and void by this week's new law.]
What is Hong Kong?
The name of a government that is ruled strictly by religion.
What is a theocracy?
The percentage of women that need to be elected to the lower legislative house in Mexico due to gender quotas.
What is 50%
What is proportional representation?
In order to maintain legitimacy, party members try to support their leadership. Otherwise it could fall into a crisis where a vote may be taken that requires the entire cabinet, including the prime minister to step down.
What is a "vote of no confidence"?
Name two examples of rentier states.
Where is IRAN and NIGERIA?
The term for political systems where elected officials and government workers feel they have a right to a share of government revenues, and they use them to benefit supporters, co-religionists and members of their ethnic group.
What is prebendalism?
Term used to describe an individual's social network of mutually beneficial personal and business relationships. Helpful in getting things done in China.
What is guanxi?
The name of the legislative body, parliament, in Iran.
What is Majles?
What is sexenio?
Term referring to Russian tycoons who reaped enormous fortunes in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, such as Gazprom. Putin was not a fan.
What is OLIGARCH?
Local government, health care and education is an example of this in Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland.
What is devolution?
These two course countries have a unicameral legislature.
What is CHINA and IRAN?
The Nigerian constitution has put many provisions in place that support the Federal character including the fact that the President must receive what percentage of the vote in 2/3 of the regions in order to be elected.
What is 25%?
What is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ)?
The body that represents theocratic principles and consists of 12 male clerics six of whom are appointed by the Supreme Leader and the other six who are nominated by the chief judge and approved by the Majles.
What is the Guardian Council?
This treaty, which replaced the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 2020, is a mutually beneficial win for North American workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses.
What is the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)?
Reforms introduced by Boris Yeltsin to create a free market economy, allowing for political corruption amongst the oligarchs.
What is shock therapy?
In the 2010s the government in Britain introduced what type of program which required cuts in social services in order to balance the budget.
What is an austerity program?
This country's Senate has 109 senators, three from each of 36 states, and one from the federal capital territory, all elected by populate vote. Whereas the 360 members of the House of Representatives are elected from single member districts by plurality vote. This ensures regional representation.
Where is NIGERIA?
Ken Saro-Wiwa fought to secure financial benefits for the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta and to hold foreign companies accountable in part since Nigeria is a _______ state.
What is rentier?
The system which discourages or at least limits migration from rural to urban areas since workers are unable to get housing or schooling for their children without this permit.
What is hukou?
Policy, prior to 1979, when the Shah encouraged domestic industries to provide products that the population needed in order to replace foreign goods.
What is import substitution industrialization?
The ruling party of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ended the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party — or PRI — which had governed the State of Mexico without interruption for nearly a century.
What is MORENA?
Russia maintains a federal governmental structure however in recent years, some republics have near autonomy, and others are much stronger than others. This is called ________________.
What is asymmetric federalism?
The 2016 vote to withdraw from Brexit was the result of a popular _________________ that gained traction due to anti-immigrant rhetoric and economic concerns.
What is a referendum?
Which legislative body in which country does this describe?
It has 500 seats; 300 members are elected by plurality vote and the other 200 members are elected according to proportional representation, through a system of regional lists (one for each of the 5 constituencies established for the election by law).
What is the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico?