Focusing on empowering domestic industry, this policy popular among developing countries in the 50s-70s is,m in effect, a form of protectionism
What is ISI? (Import Substitution Industrialization)
100
The Iron Rice Bowl
What was the term for the "cradle to grave care" that Mao promised the Chinese people - the guarantee of food, a place to live, basics for all. Yeah, China doesn't do that any more.
100
Guanxi
What is the Chinese word for clientelist connections - every country seems to have it in some way or other. (Probably 'worst' in Nigeria and Mexico)
100
The term for the newly dominant types among many countries' political elites: highly educated (often US educated) in economics or public policy or engineering
What is "technocrat" (or Technico if you have to use Spanish)
200
Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein
What are the Welsh Nationaiist and Northern Irish Nationalist political parties in the UK?
200
These measure a country's modernization and its wealth gap, respectively
What are HDI (Human Development Index) and the GINI Index (yeah, I don't remember what the letters stand for)
200
This is how the Russia government distributed the assets of the state
What are vouchers?
200
This means "openness" in Russian
What is Glasnost
200
The Good Friday Agreement
What was the agreement that ended (mostly) the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland through consociational accommodations and incentives to disarm?
300
This is a requirement of Nigerian political parties
What is that a party must be able to prove that is has a national presence/constituency? (Similar to the requirement about the president needing 25% of 2/3 of the states) And both are examples of a policy response to the intense cleavage in the country.
300
Generally this replacement of the GATT agreement is classified as a transnational organization, but in some instances it can impose its will on a member-state like a supranational organization would.
What is the WTO?
300
Distributive Policy
What is the term for policies designed to distribute wealth more evenly - the Robin Hood stuff
300
This is the Iranian group that similar to the Chinese Red Guards who "enforce" revolutionary discipline
What is the Basij
300
Describes a political culture in which various interests/sectors have a (sometimes government designated) representative to provide them a "voice at the table"
What is Corporatist?
400
Actually, 8 official ones ARE permitted (despite one's tendency to think not because they are, in effect, GONGOs, and don't matter anyway)
What is "parties other than the CCP in China"
400
A holdover from the Revolution and the subsequent Iran-Iraq War, this is Iran's largest parastatal
What is the IRGC?
400
Distributive Justice
What is the term for the way a country distributes assets from it's "rent" source - like that oil in Nigeria
400
those FDI mexican factories
What is a maquilladoro?
400
They have judicial review; the others don't
What is Nigeria, Mexico, Iran (sort of), and Russia (sort of )
500
This country's "Green" movement isn't an environmentalist one like those found in Europe; it is focused on loosing the strict hold of the post-revolutionary power structure
What is Iran? (The Green movement is the group that claimed Ahmadinejad had stolen his reelection in 2009; they were repressed.)
500
These required indebted, developing countries to balance their fiscal books (or try to) and adopt neoliberal policies
What are SAPs? (Structural Adjustment Programs)
500
This is what a good performance on these tests may take care of for you if you're NOT looking at a political science major
What is a distribution requirement?
500
Hukuo
What is "the Chinese "household registration" system which divides the population between those designated Urban and those designated rural." It has complicated matters relating to rural->urban migration, and has been relaxed in recent years.
500
Fused
This term refers to governments WITHOUT separation of powers - like the UK