Accountable Government
A(n) ______________ Government requires the executive branch to maintain the support of the elected legislature in order to stay in power.
Responsible / Accountable
This ideology emphasizes democracy, individual rights, and free markets.
Liberalism
These rights apply to groups rather than individuals and often seek protections for minority cultures or communities
collective rights
These organizations try to influence government decisions on behalf of a particular interest or cause.
What are lobby groups?
This type of protest involves deliberately breaking laws considered unjust in order to change them.
What is civil disobedience?
In Canada, this group of ministers directs government policy and must maintain confidence of Parliament.
What is the Cabinet?
When a country forces liberal democratic institutions onto another nation, it is called this.
What is the imposition of liberalism?
A global crisis like this may force governments to restrict freedoms for public safety.
What is a pandemic
The media is expected to do this to government policies to ensure transparency and accountability.
What is hold government accountable / fact-checking?
These activists fought for women’s right to vote in the early 20th century.
Who were the suffragettes?
If the government loses a vote on the budget or throne speech, this must usually happen
non-confidence vote / government resignation / election
This Canadian law attempted to assimilate Indigenous peoples and imposed European governance systems.
What is the Indian Act?
This term describes a society focused heavily on buying goods and accumulating wealth.
Consumerist
This problem occurs when many media outlets are owned by the same corporation.
media concentration
This American activist refused to give up her bus seat, helping spark the Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Rosa Parks?
This elected body holds the government accountable through debate and questioning.
Official Opposition / House of Commons
These two countries successfully transitioned to liberal democracies after World War II with help from the United States...
What are Germany and Japan?
Liberal democracies sometimes increase surveillance to combat this threat.
What is extremism/terrorism
This term refers to misleading or fabricated information spread through media.
Fake news
This Canadian Indigenous movement began in 2012 to protest legislation affecting Indigenous rights and environmental protections
What is Idle No More?
This parliamentary procedure allows opposition MPs to question the government publicly
Question Period
These two countries experienced unstable attempts to impose liberal democracy in the early 2000s.
Iraq and Afghanistan ... Iran will be totally different DW gang
This philosophical perspective argues that truth and morality are socially constructed rather than universal.
What is postmodernism
When interest groups gain so much influence that government responds mainly to them rather than voters, this is sometimes called this
hyperpluralism
This 1989 protest in South Africa saw about 30,000 people march against apartheid in defiance of a state of emergency.
What was the Cape Town Peace March?