Definitions
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over it's internal and foreign affairs
State
Name the 5 types of shape states.
Compact, elongated, prorupted, perforated, fragmented
An effort by one country the establish settlements in a territory and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on that territory
Colonialism
How can Governing states be classified?
Democratic, autocratic and anocratic
Gerrymandering takes what 3 forms?
Wasted vote, excess vote, and stacked vote
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity
Nation-state
Where are most of the world's landlocked states?
Africa
An example of a colony (commonwealth) of the US is...
Puerto Rico
What is a democracy?
A country in which the citizens elect leaders and can run for office.
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
Gerrymandering
A country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self determination
Multinational state
Distinguish between a physical and cultural boundary.
A physical boundary coincides with the significant features of the natural landscape while a cultural boundary follows the distribution of cultural characteristics.
Sovereign state may run only its _____ and _____ policy.
military and foreign
What is an autocracy?
A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.
Why are boundaries of legislative boundaries occasionally redrawn? How often is this done in the U.S.?
To ensure that each district has about the same population; every 10 years
a culturally defined group of people with a shared past and a common future who relate to a territory and have political goals.
Nation
Name 3 physical boundaries and 2 cultural boundaries.
Physical: Desert, Mountain, Water
Cultural: Geometric and Ethnic
Sovereign state may also control its ______ ______.
Internal Affairs
What is an anocracy?
A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather a mix of the two.
How is this type of boundary redrawing different in the U.S. than in Europe?
Europe is entrusted ti independent commissions and have no regard for voting, while the U.S. is entrusted to state legislative.
A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances
Balance of Power
Give 2 reasons for prorupting the shape of a state.
To provide a state with access to a resource and to separate two states that otherwise share a boundary
Give 3 reasons why Europeans sought colonies.
To promote Christianity, to receive resources and serve as captive markets for products, and to establish power
What is an unitary state?
A state that place power in the hands of the central government officials.
How is gerrymandering combined with ethnicity for political use?
Africans and Hispanics tend to vote democrat.