Parliaments and Presidents
The center of authority in the UK is this legislative body.
What is Parliament?
A system in which local authorities have certain powers reserved from the central government.
What is a federal system?
Stability, Social Services, Democracy, and Tradition are all sources of a government's __________.
What is legitimacy?
Brexit and Russia's oil re-nationalization were both examples of backlash against this economic phenomenon.
What is globalization?
Russia's constitution was recently revised to give far greater powers to this leadership position.
What is the Presidency?
The collection of groups which are not part of a government or for-profit business.
What is civil society?
The legal system which values the precedent set by judges over the written law itself, most famously established in Britain.
What is common law?
Selling off state owned companies, cutting regulations, and suppressing unions are all examples of this type of economic transition.
What is liberalization?
A Prime Minister is directly accountable to this branch of government, while a President is not.
What is the legislative branch?
Russia's population is concentrated in cities located in this part of the country. (N, S, E, W)
What is the West?
This rule-set establishes a two-party system in the UK.
What is a single member district plurality system?
Russia and the UK both regularly hold these events in order to maintain a sense of democratic legitimacy.
What are elections?
This Russian leader's restructuring (perestroika) caused the privatization of the Soviet system, and thus the formation of the Russian oligarchy.
Who was Gorbachev?
Russia has this executive system, which has both a Prime Minister and a President.
What is a semi-Presidential system?
What is the one party dominant system?
The Federation Council and the House of Lords are both examples of ___________ in a bicameral system.
What is an "upper house?"