This is an executive system that exhibits the separation of powers.
What is presidential system?
100
This is a Parliamentary movement to force an election to change the current government.
What is a vote of confidence?
100
This is an acronym for non-elected bodies outside of government departments in Britain.
What is QUANGO?
100
This is the single European currency that was introduced into some of the states of the European Union countries in 1999.
What is the euro?
100
This is the psychological attachment of a people to one another; it is a cultural connection more so than a political or geographical connection and may or may not transcend state lines.
What is a nation?
200
This is a policy of reformation occurring over a period of time rather than a sudden change or revolution.
What is gradualism?
200
This is what members of Parliament are called when they are not in a leadership position.
What is a backbencher?
200
This is synonymous with political system.
What is regime?
200
This policy was created in 1952, and today still accounts for the largest portion of the EU’s yearly budget.
What is Common Agriculture Policy?
200
This is the belief that self-expression and quality of life are valued over economic and physical security.
What is post-materialism?
300
This is a composition of a country's key political institutions that are responsible for making, implementing, and adjusting important policies in that country.
What is state?
300
This is a concept that cabinet members in Parliament will agree on policy decisions and collectively be responsible for policy outcomes.
What is a collective responsibility?
300
This is the collective attitudes, beliefs, and symbols that influence political behavior.
What is a political culture?
300
This is an important document created the European Union and the euro.
What is a Maastrict Treaty?
300
This is a belief by powerful groups and the broad citizenry that a state exercises rightful authority, such as with consent of the governed.
What is legitimacy?
400
This is a system of government that has free and fair elections as well as various other political rights and civil liberties.
What is substantive democracy?
400
This is a senior group of opposition spokespeople who together under the leadership of the Leader of the Opposition form an alternative cabinet to the government's, whose members shadow or mark each individual member of the government.
What is a shadow cabinet?
400
This is the term used in the UK for an election where the victor simply receives the most votes, not an absolute majority, this term is often referred to as a plurality voting system in the US.
What is First Past the Post?
400
This is a broad agreement in Britain that government involvement would make the economy successful.
What is a collective consensus?
400
The belief of the citizens in a democracy that their vote has a profound influence on the outcome of an election.
What is efficacy?
500
Many large corporations and countries today are considered to be an organization structured as a hierarchy that uses task specialization and asks under impersonal and objective guidelines for making decisions.
What is bureaucracy?
500
This is when supposedly democratic parliamentary systems of government fall short of their democratic goals in practice.
What is democratic deficit?
500
Free and fair elections are the minimum requirements
What is procedural democracy?
500
This is the governing body of a nation, state, or community.
What is the government?
500
This is the collective attitudes, beliefs, and symbols that influence political behavior.