Iran
This is a legal system based on the principles defined by Islam.
What is Sharia Law?
A person of mixed white, indigenous (Amerindian), and sometimes African descent.
What is a Mestizo?
The process of decentralizing power from national governments that stops short of federalism, and gives regional governments more power and authority.
What is Devolution?
Nigeria's status as this type of state, limits is economic growth.
What are rentier states?
This ideoloy advocates state ownership of all property, with the government exercising complete control over the economy. The version of this created by Mao in China is known as Maoism.
What is communism?
The volunteer paramilitary force that serve as the morality police in Iran.
What is the Basij?
An agreement in which Mexico, the US and Canada committed themselves to the elimination of the trade barriers among them
What is NAFTA?
In the twentieth century, the British government expanded this, prioritizing the health and well-being of its citizens.
What is the welfare state?
This is how Nigeria's political borders were created.
Act in China that allows people to have only 1 child in the city and 2 children in the countryside created in 1980; to control population
What is the One Child Policy?
The area of modern life where Iranian women are best represented
What is University Enrollment?
A system of power of Neofeudal realtionships in which sponsors gain the support of dependents through the mutual exchange of benefits and obligations
What is patron-clientelism?
The current party in power in the UK, led by Keir Starmer, who won a landslide victory last summer after 14 years of support for the opposition party.
What is the Labour Party?
This is Nigeria's bicameral legislature.
What is the National Assembly?
The Central Committee, Politburo, and Standing Committee are all organizational components of this in China.
What is the Chinese Communist Party?
This Iranian political institution supervises the Supreme Leader and chooses his successor.
What is the Assembly of Experts?
AMLO's anticorruption campaign focused on cutting public funds this type of non-profit groups which function outside of the government's control.
What are Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)?
Upper house of Parliament. Unelected body - heredity peers, life peers, law lords. Served as final court for civil cases and criminal cases. Has the authority to amend and delay legislation.
House of Lords
This is the unique rule Nigeria uses in selecting the president.
What is the process where the winning candidate must obtain a plurality of the votes and at least 25 percent of the vote in two-thirds of the states to assume the presidency?
This leader of the CCP after the death of Mao Zedong initiated a series of slow but ultimately sweeping reforms that reduced the state’s direct control of the economy. He also began to reestablish organized control by the party over the state and enact more uniform laws to govern the country.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
The role of this Iranian political institution of 12 appointed members is to approve Presidential candidates.
What is the Guardian Council?
He became president of Mexico in 2000 and ended the PRI's reign; first democratically elected candidate from an opposition party; pushed to end official corruption, reduce poverty, and spur economic growth; tried to protect the rights of Mexico's natives
Vicente Fox
Who was Margaret Thatcher?
Nigeria uses this voting system for electing its legislature, which generally ends up in two catch-all parties with all the power.
What is air pollution (that is estimated to have led to 1.4 million deaths in 2019)?