Allows part of a country's economic debt to be forgiven.
What is Economic Structural Adjustment
100
One who has absolute power over a country but has revolutionary ideas for the country's progress.
What is an Enlightened despot
100
The control of surrounding countries
What is hegemony
100
Head of State
What is an individual that serves as symbolic representation for a country internationally but has little power in government issues.
100
They include the freedom of belief, speech, assembly and many others.
What is civil liberties
200
A trend that is characterized by gradual change that brings about the establishment of strong traditions.
What is gradualism
200
New Economic Policy
What is a plan by Lenin, set into play in 1920 in order to allow more private ownership within Russia.
200
Includes industry, agriculture, science and the military. They have formed the heart of China's official policy ever since Zhou Enlai. These revolutionized development.
What is Four Modernizations
200
Factionalism
What is party strife and intrigue; infighting, dissension.
200
Arises when all disputes within a country set the same groups or institutions vs. each other.
What is coinciding cleavages
300
This way of approaching politics emerged during WWII, when all parties worked towards the same goal, setting class divisions aside.
What is collective consensus
300
The abrupt change into a market economy, initiated by Yeltsin and the Duma in the early 1990's.
What is shock therapy.
300
A trade policy that is characterized by being made out of an extense system amongst all countries.
What is "Open Door"
300
Plenums
What is the meetings of the Central Committee for the CCP.
300
An emerging political order that draws power and values from everywhere.
What is cosmopolitanism
400
A term that describes the revival of classic liberal values that support low levels of government regulation.
What is Neoliberalism
400
Part of Gorbachev's plan to reform Russia's government to promote a more open discussion of political, social and economic issues.
What is Glasnost
400
Founder of the Chinese Communist Party, often criticized for closing China from the world, yet he managed to unite the country more than ever before.
What is Mao Zedong
400
State Corporatism
What is a form of corporatism holds that the basis of society is the state.
400
Describes the means by which a government or regime gains citizen support, eg.patron-clientelism.
What is co-optation
500
David Cameron's vision of a country supported by its people and private organizations, as opposed to being harnessed by a "big government"
What is "Big Society"
500
Describe Stalinism as a political plan.
What is a two-pronged program searching to reach control by collectivization and industrialization. It was carried out by brute force.
500
After this happened, China infused capitalism into the government system, decentralized government and reestablished the Chinese bureaucracy. (Product of the Revolution)
What is Institutionalization of the Revolution
500
Welfare state
What is a government that takes control of the welfare of its citizens through public health programs, public housing, pensions and others.
500
When government ideas are spread through media, family, friends or school, as a political strategy to recruit support from the people.