Vocab
Comp Gov Concepts
Mexico
UK
Russia
100
This term is if a government's citizens and other nations recognize its authority to rule.
What is legitimacy
100
A political party whose aim is to gather support from a broad range of citizens through a de-emphasis of ideology.
What is a catch-all party?
100
The Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada, commonly known as the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement replaces which former trade aggreement?
What is NAFTA?
100
Unlike most modern democracies, Britain does not have a....
What is a written constitution?
100
These two religions have the largest number of adherents....
What is Russian Orthodoxy and Islam
200
The system of government in which the rule treats the state as his personal property.
What is a Patrimonial State
200
A statistic composite index of indicators, including life expectancy, education, and per capita income
What is HDI?
200
What is the name of the term limit for Mexico's president?
What is the sexenio?
200
In general, political, and economic change in Britain has long been characterized by?
What is Gradualism?
200
How is the prime minister chosen for Russia?
What is they are appointed.
300
When a change in one variable precipitates a change in another variable
* difficult to prove in the study of government!
What is Causation
300
What is most likely to cause a regime change?
What is a Revolution?
300
Using a plurality formula, the candidate wins the most votes in a single round is the way which country chooses their president.
What is Mexico
300
Deciding to leave the European Union is an example in the past ten years of a?
What is a Referendum
300
The body of government is elected through direct national elections that operate under proportional representation.
The Duma
400
The key political institutions in a country
What is a state
400
The ability of a court to overturn laws or executive actions that violate the constitution
What is Judicial Review?
400
Assembly factories that produce goods for export, often located along the US-Mexico border region
What are maquiladoras?
400
Under this neoliberalist leader the influence of this person in the policymaking processes of the British Government was most apparent by whom?
Who is Margaret Thatcher
400
This best describes the government structure in Russia.
What is Asymmetric Federalism?
500
system where power is concentrated at the national level, where the power of subgovernments is not protected
What is a unitary system
500
combines law-making (legislative) and executive functions, allowing legislature to select but also remove the head of government (prime minister) and cabinet.
What is a parliamentary system?
500
The network of camarillas that characterized the Mexican political system during the 20th century is an example of...
What is patron-clientism
500
The example of the UK government seeking to spread out power to allow regional governments more power over local issues is called what?
What is Devolution or to devolve power.
500
Censorship of citizens' use of the Internet and social media is an example of what?
What is an authoritarian political system
600
A system, such as authoritarian or democratic, that is the framework of government
What is a Regime
600
A state with complete political, social, and cultural control over citizens.
What is a Totalitarian Government?
600
Although gender inequality exists, which country has gender quotas in the party list system that help increase female representation?
What is Mexico
600
A system in which two major parties and a weaker third party dominate elections.
What is the first-past-the-post single member district system.
600
Which two countries have no Judicial Review?
What are Mexico and Russia?
700
Political System in which power (or authority) is highly concentrated in a single individual, a small group of people, or a single political party, ethnic group, region or institution. (Power not selected by competitive elections)
What is authoritarianism
700
Extreme nationalist ideology that favors authoritarian rule and the rights of the ethnic majority over those of ethnic minorities and the political opposition
What is Fascism?
700
During the period dominance, the party’s presidential candidate was selected by the outgoing president. Which political party are we referring to?
What is the PRI? (Institutional Revolutionary Party)
700
What are three important elements that legitimize Britain's rational-legal authority?
What are Common Law, the Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta?
700
This is a recruitment of elites in communist societies.
What is Nomenklatura?
1000
A system of law in which court decisions serve as precedent for future cases
What is Common Law
1000
What are the 6 Countries we will study and compare in this course?
What is Mexico, UK, Russia, Nigeria, China, Iran
1000
This group caused an uprising in 1994 based in the Southern state of Chiapas toward Vicente Fox. THey represent Amerindians that feel disaffected from the more prosperous Mestizo population in the country
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Who are the Zapatistas
1000
Famously overly excited former speaker of the house in UK Parliament?
Who is John Bercow?
1000
This is the head of the Russian Government
What is the Kremlin?