Parliaments and Presidents
The center of authority in the UK is this legislative body.
What is Parliament?
Culture, ethnic division, religion are all examples of this phenomenon.
What is social cleavage?
A system in which local authorities have certain powers reserved from the central government.
What is a federal system?
Independent judiciaries, elections that can affect change, and freedom of speech are all attributes of this type of political system.
What is democracy?
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?
Putin has been moving Russia away from its federal system to become more like this type of system.
What is a unitary system?
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?
Urban voters in the UK typically favor this political party.
What is the Labour Party?
What is the one party dominant system?
Stability, Social Services, Democracy, and Tradition are all sources of a government's __________.
What is legitimacy?
The phenomenon of growing economic interdependence caused by a combination of new technology and liberalization of countries across the world.
What is globalization?
The Federation Council and the House of Lords are both examples of ___________ in a bicameral system.
What is an "upper house?"
Vladimir Putin has frequently clashed with this NGO founded by George Soros.
What is the Open Society Foundation?
The Russian State Duma uses this electoral system for its representatives.
What is a hybrid of SMDP and proportional representation?
Putin's invasion of Ukraine had this effect on his legitimacy.
What is improvement?
A word meaning general sternness or stoicism, which also refers to an economic program of spending cuts.
What is austerity?