Unit5:pol. and econ. development
A modern state that has trouble collecting taxes, getting citizens to abide by reasonable laws and regulations, join the military for defense, etc. has low legitimacy. The regime and government may also therefore have low ____________ to enact normal functions of government.
What is capacity?
Single member district voting method in the UK is also called this (from horse racing).
What is "first-past-the-post"?
What ISIS (in Syria and Iraq); ETA (in northern Spain); Hamas & PNA (in Gaza and 'West Bank'); Tamil Tigers (in Sri Lanka); Kurds (Iraq, Turkey, Iran) all claim they want.
What is statehood (independence/national liberation)?
The name for warfare that targets civilians when perpetrated by a nonstate actor?
Double jeopardy extra: warfare that targets civilians when perpetrated by a state?
What is terrorism?
What is war crime or state-led terrorism?
This island nation-state is recognized officially by very few nations due to pressures by the PRC put upon any state that does recognize the island as an independent country.
What is Taiwan? (island of Formosa)
United Kingdom has this form of government legitimacy in terms of its regime of Constitutional monarchy.
What is traditional legitimacy? (Because it has also evolved democratic systems over the last 200 years it gains legitimacy also from rational - legal legitimacy).
This party in the UK split over the question of continued membership in the EU and held a national referendum seeking to end the controversy in 2016.
What is the Conservative (or 'Tory') Party?
Farsi language term/phrase we most associate with the guiding principle of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Daily double if you can also explain/translate.
What is velayat e-faqih? (VEL-EH-AT uh-FA-KA)
This nation's bicameral legislative branch created a special independent Institute of Elections in 1990 to reduce political manipulation of voting and have better, more professionally run elections.
What is Mexico? (INE: Instituto Nacional de Elecions)
Having a professional civil service that exists regardless of political party affiliation and changes in leadership is one attribute of a stable, possibly democratic, ___________ .
What is regime?
Given that some places in Russia have greater autonomy powers of government than other parts of Russia, political scientists use this term.
What is asymmetric federalism?
In this country, the Liberal Democratic Party is neither liberal nor democratic ideologically speaking.
What is Russia?
This nation began in a somewhat violent anti-colonial moment, went into civil war but stayed together under military rule until the 1990s and in the most recent generation has made efforts to abide by the rule of law, elections, separation of powers, and democratic political processes.
What is Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa?
A country that moves from liberal to illiberal democracy (like Hungary) can be measured in several ways. One way has to do with media control, and another is favoring certain companies and elites who reinforce the leader's views through a system of doling out monetary rewards, and privileges which is called:
What is clientelism? Or patrimonialism? (forms of corrupt, nondemocratic use of the power of the state).
This country (among our six) has the lowest combined score on the most recent Freedom House Index of six measures.
Daily double if you can produce the score (out of 100).
What is the People's Republic of China?
Mr. Acheson's 'blue bricks' story about an enormous civil engineering project was about which country?
Daily double: The story illustrates what development concept?
What is Egypt?
What is designing nonexploitative, sustainable development projects that produce knock-on local industry?
Generally speaking by moving to this style of electoral system in legislative branches, you'll tend to get more than just two political parties seated in your parliament.
What is proportional representation?
Most likely, a student interested in joining a government through a government job, or running for public office would NOT be of this particular political ideology.
What is an anarchist?
Although not seeking enforced equality, United Russia under Putin since 2000 is the inheritor of this political party that ruled the Soviet Union as a dictatorial and dominant party in government.
What is the Soviet Communist Party, 1920s-1991.
China's western province Xing Jiang has been 'Sinicized' and over two million of these people have been incarcerated in "re-education camps".
Who are Uighurs?
Developing countries often have a significant problem in terms of this aspect of their economy that the government does not "see" or measure, regulate or tax.
What is the "informal economy" or "gray economy?"
This country has a number of elected members of its legislative branch who are from a variety of overlapping political parties that cluster around either being a 'reform', or 'conservative' , the later adheres more closely to the founding ideas of the republic in 1979.
What is Iran?
The ideological name for someone in favor of having the state be in charge of (or a major investor in) the 'top end' of the economy such as major transportation and communication networks, electric and water infrastructure, pension systems, etc.
What is a socialism?
In 2021 PM Boris Johnson tried to end his country's crisis (and his own party's split vote) regarding how to implement Brexit by suspending Parliament. He was stopped from doing this by this government body.
Double jeopardy score: what is the total number of MPs in the House of Commons?
What is the newly created Supreme Court (derived from the House of Lords)?
What is 650?
This supranational organization consists of 27 states (including 6 former communist countries in the imperial orbit of the USSR).
What is the European Union?