Public Policy
The term for a vote called on a specific issue in which the state makes the final decision on a policy.
What is a referendum?
Which executive system holds a direct election of the chief executive.
What is a presidential system?
This type of division separates society into many groups that allow them to cooperate on issues and ultimately unifies them.
What is a cross-cutting cleavage?
This term defines a state's claims to exercise authority and effective control of political decisions within a given territory?
What is sovereignty?
This term describes Nigeria's inability to provide basic of public services
What is a failed state?
This policy has increased the average age in China.
What is the One-Child Policy?
This doctrine allows courts to overturn laws that violate a constitution.
What is judicial review?
This term designates official membership within a state by a member of the population.
What is citizenship?
This state is widely consider the best example of a "failed state"
What is Nigeria?
This term describes groups that pursues goals outside of government such as publicizing issues, lobbying, making demands on government, and providing direct services.
What are NGOs?
This type of policy deals with taxing and spending on government programs
What is fiscal policy?
This type of legislature provides legitimacy to nondemocratic states by approving all executive decisions
What is a rubber stamp?
This term refers to the aggregation of religious organizations, labor unions, women's groups, etc.
What is civil society?
This type of legitimacy was used in Ayatollah Khomeini's regime following the Iranian Revolution.
What is charismatic legitimacy?
This is a government-owned corporation that compensates for the lack of private economic development and ensures complete and equitable service to the whole country
What is a parastatal?
This type of policy deals with establishing environmental standards.
What is regulatory policy?
In theory, this political system is the most efficient at passing legislation.
What is a parliamentary system?
What is the most common form of conventional participation in the political process.
What is voting in an election?
This term describes the belief and practice by the government to follow existing laws even as it is making new ones.
What is rule of law?
This measures the inequality of wealth within a state.
What is the Gini coefficient?
This country has recently established regulations restricting the civil liberties of women?
What is Iran?
This process identifies and selects future political leaders.
What is elite recruitment?
This type of identity is generally considered to be the most important group identity classification?
What is national identity?
This socialization institution is one of the most influential in developing a person's political ideology?
What is family?
This is a development strategy that stresses integration into global markets, privatization, etc. It is often demanded by the World Bank or IMF in order for countries to be able to recieve loans
What is structural adjustment?