Constitutionally, this is the most powerful state institution.
What is the president?
100
This institution was reformed in 1999 to remove many of its hereditary peers.
What is the House of Lords?
100
This must be called within 5 years of the one that just happened.
What is the general election?
100
Besides the European Union, examples include the UN, the World Trade Organization and the World Bank.
What is a supranational organization?
100
This man adapted Marxist theory to fit the conditions of feudal Russia.
Who is Lenin?
200
This chamber of the Russian legislature is not elected by the people.
What is the Federation Council?
200
It is known for its impartiality and policy expertise.
What is the Civil Service.
200
This policy has made the Scottish National Party more popular in Scotland since the late 1990s.
What is devolution?
200
This 2007 treaty was an alternative to creating an European constitution.
What is the Lisbon Treaty?
200
This is an opportunity for the opposition party in the UK to hold the government publicly accountable on a regular basis.
What is question time?
Would also take: What is prime minister's questions?
300
This institution has the power to reject the president's choice of prime minister.
What is the Duma?
300
Its role is to basically debate policy, scrutinize bills and vote on them.
What is the House of Commons?
300
This party controlled the House of Commons during the first half of the 1990s.
What is the Conservative Party?
300
This 1991 treaty created the European Union we know today.
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
300
This concept refers to the feeling that someone has the right to rule.
What is legitimacy?
400
If a president dies or resigns his office, then this person becomes acting president until there is an election.
What is the Prime Minister?
400
The Prime Minister and Cabinet shares this when making policy for the UK.
What is collective responsibility?
400
This is what a party must reach or achieve in order to win a constituency.
What is a plurality?
Would also take: What is being first past the post?
400
The feeling that EU has grown too large; lack of support for the EU adding more countries.
What is enlargement fatigue?
400
The leader who developed and implemented "new thinking."
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
Many observers of Russian politics feared this position became less powerful relative to this other office between 2008 and 2012.
What are the President and Prime Minister, respectively?
500
This principle limits the ability of the UK Supreme Court to declare actions, laws, etc. unconstitutional.
What is parliamentary sovereignty?
500
This is the effect of Britain's SMDP F-P-T-P system for a losing party.
What is getting a percentage of seats in the House of Commons that is far smaller than the percentage of the popular vote it won?
Would also take: What is disproportional representation?
500
The UK did not want to lose more of this, so it decided to keep its own currency.
What is sovereignty?
500
This European Union institution only focuses on the interests of Europe, not particular members states or their citizens.