Definitions
Legitimacy
What is when power is accepted as rightful?
This political system can lead to gridlock when the executive and legislature disagree.
What is a presidential system?
These course countries are unitary, rather than federal.
What are the UK, Iran, and China?
The current President of Nigeria.
Who is Bola Tinubu?
Term for a country in which agriculture is a large part of the economy and GDP per capita is low.
What is a developing country?
Political socialization
What is the process whereby an individual comes to take on the political culture of their country?
In this electoral system, parties are often required to register ranked lists of candidates and voters vote for a party.
What is proportional representation?
The course countries Freedom House rates as "Partly Free".
What are Mexico and Nigeria?
The first non-PRI President of Mexico after 70 years of PRI rule.
Who is Vicente Fox?
Term for when productive assets are partially state-owned and partially privately owned.
What is a mixed economy?
Populism
What is a political approach that tries to appeal to ordinary people, and blames elites for problems.
A political strategy in which elected officials give out government jobs or contracts in exchange for support.
What is clientelism?
This part of the Mexican legislature is the equivalent of the Russian Duma.
What is the Chamber of Deputies?
The selection of this prime minister marked the end of the Collectivist Consensus.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
Term for requirements imposed on countries that borrow from the IMF.
What is a structural adjustment program (SAP)?
Political Efficacy
What is the belief that one's political participation can influence the government?
Under this system, debate is permitted until leadership makes a decision, then it must be followed.
What is democratic centralism?
These course countries have common law.
What are the UK and Nigeria?
The person who ordered the military to fire on the Russian White House.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
When people outside a country pay to build productive facilities in the country in order to make a profit.
What is foreign direct investment?
What is the process of decentralizing power from a national government to sub-national governments in a unitary state?
Term for a system in which the courts do not review laws for their legality.
What is legislative supremacy?
These course countries have received loans from the International Monetary Fund.
What are all of them?
The Iranian President who negotiated the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Who is Hassan Rouhani?
Excess payment to a factor of production such as land, labor, or capital.
What is rent?