Key Terms 1
The world's first known direct democracy.
What is Ancient Athens?
A citizens’ group draws up a petition. If the petition is signed by a certain number of citizens, it can force a public vote on an issue.
What is an Initiative?
An attempt to influence the direction of governmental policy by groups that represent a particular interest or perspective.
What are Lobby Groups?
Often found in communist states, although they call themselves republics, socialist republics, democratic republics, etc. to show they somehow represent the will of the people.
What are One-Party States?
Government provides supports to help ensure equality of outcome, not just opportunity.
What are Positive Freedoms?
All citizens may vote on whether to accept or reject a proposed piece of legislation.
What is a Referendum?
A majority of voters may choose to remove an elected official or government from power.
What is a Recall?
Any piece of legislation that has been passed by the House of Commons must also be passed by this before it can become law.
What is the Senate?
Canada has a two-chamber legislature consisting of
What is the Senate and House of Commons?
Popularized during the Cold War supporting American interference in foreign affairs.
Operates on the belief that every citizen’s voice is important and necessary for the orderly and efficient operation of society.
What is Direct Democracy?
Most modern liberal democracies, because of their size and complexity, use this style of governance.
What is Representative Democracy?
Vision, propaganda, controlled participation, directing public discontent, and terror.
What are Techniques of Authoritarian Governments?
This man once said “A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.”
Who is George W. Bush?
Seeks to place restrictions on the way people use or consume their own property.
What is Environmentalism?
This is also known as Single Member Constituency.
What is First-Past-The-Post?
The branch of government that proposes laws is dependent on the direct or indirect support of elected members of the legislative branch.
What is Responsible Government?
Often known as a junta.
What is a Military Dictatorship?
A group of individuals share ideas, solutions, and concerns to find a resolution to a problem that all members of the group can accept.
What is Consensus Decision Making?
Economic theories supported by neoconservatives (hint: it is not simply "classical liberalism")
What is Reaganomics?
What is Trickle Down Economics?
What is Thatcherism?
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
What is Tyranny of the Majority?
Organizations originally idealistic and democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently, a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
What is an Oligarchy?
This province does not have any political parties.
What is Nunavut?
This concept is believed to do more harm than good because most people are not considered "informed."
What is Mandatory Voting?
General laws of relationships that are considered common to most Aboriginal cultures.
What are Laws of Sacred Life, Nature, and Mutual Support?