Varieties of Democracy
In this type of government, the executive power and legislative power is fused
The supranational body who makes policies for member states is called
The European Union
What is it called when the person with the most votes wins the election
Plurality
This dataset for democracy considers only if a country has elections or not
Democracy/Dictatorship
Finish the sentence of the Stap Gen Z quote:
"If a prime minister loses their majority in a parliamentary democracy, they are ________
Cooked
This is the process when the legislature formally votes to remove the government
vote of no confidence
This type of federalism represents deals struck between groups in order to mitigate tensions between different groups
Holding together federalism
This refers to how many people in each district you are electing
District Magnitude
The relationship between this type of regime and democratic survival is found by Svolik to be negatively correlated
Presidential
I used this as the example to show the fundamental question of federalism: "who is in charge?"
Snow removal
This is one of the two types of semi-presidentialism
Premier-presidential; presdential-parliamentary
In this type of federalism, the federal structure is enshrined in the Constitution/founding document
De Jure federalism
This refers to the percentage of vote (if any) parties must attain in order to be elected into parliament
Electoral threshold
These two argued for the credible commitment theory of democratic origins
North and Weingast
What two famous numbers have I probably referred to way too much
six, seven
In this type of coalition, the partners overachieve and get way more than they need - often as a sort of unity government
Surplus majority coalition
Unlike US states, many European countries' subnational units are split along specific social differences. Name two
Language, religion, ethnicity, etc.
What two problems are there with SMDP? Please give one
Strategic voting and unrepresentativeness
Robert Dahl's conception of democracy called it ____ instead
Polyarchy
When discussing semi-presidentialism, I referred to this celebrity or song (either answer okay!) because it may - or may not - represent the best/worst of both presidentialism and parliamentarism
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus and the Best of Both Worlds
If politicians are office-seeking, they prefer this type of coalition
Minimal Winning
This is what subnational units are called in Switzerland
Cantons
In this majoritarian electoral system, voters list their preferences and votes are transferred from the bottom to their second preference - provided the leading vote getting has less than 50%
Instant Runoff
This author said, "no bourgeoisie. no democracy"
Barrington Moore
When discussing coming-together federalism, I referred to the musical/song (song or musical is okay!) because it represents states coming together and forming one (ideally) unified state
High School Musical/We're All in This Together