NIGERIA
The leader of Nigeria. (include title)
Who is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu?
The leader of China (include title)
Who is President Xi Jinping?
Name a social movement in Nigeria that is seeking to influence government policies on the environment.
What is MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) or MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) or the Nile Delta Avengers (NDA)?
The leader of Mexico. (include title)
Who is President Andrés Manuel López Obrador? (AMLO)
The leader of Russia.
200 point BONUS:
Number of years he has served as leader. (how many more years did he just get "elected" for?)
Who is President Vladimir Putin?
19 (not consecutive), another six.
The leader of the United Kingdom. (include title)
Who is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak?
Name two UNITARY course countries.
Where is UK, Iran and China?
The National Question is a central feature of the political process in Nigeria due to the _____________ in Nigeria along religious and regional divides.
What are Cleavages?
The phrase "one country, two systems" came out of an agreement signed by Britain and China concerning WHAT territory that had been under British control for most of the 20th century. [This may have been declared almost null and void by this week's new law.]
What is Hong Kong?
Name the river that the Three Gorges Dam was built upon, leading to environmental impacts that have altered human activities by impacting their health, history, and livelihoods.
What is the Yangtze River?
The percentage of women that need to be elected to the lower legislative house in Mexico due to gender quotas.
What is 50%
What is proportional representation?
In order to maintain legitimacy, party members try to support their leadership. Otherwise it could fall into a crisis where a vote may be taken that requires the entire cabinet, including the prime minister to step down.
What is a "vote of no confidence"?
Name one example of a rentier state.
Where is IRAN and NIGERIA?
The term for political systems where elected officials and government workers feel they have a right to a share of government revenues, and they use them to benefit supporters, co-religionists and members of their ethnic group.
What is prebendalism?
Term used to describe an individual's social network of mutually beneficial personal and business relationships. Helpful in getting things done in China.
What is guanxi?
On April 26, 1986, a reactor explosion in Ukraine (then part of Russia) released radioactive material into the environment. The disaster was caused by a flawed reactor design and poorly trained personnel. It's considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, with an estimated cost of $700 billion. Name the location.
What is Chernobyl?
What is sexenio?
Term referring to Russian tycoons who reaped enormous fortunes in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, such as Gazprom. Putin was not a fan.
What is OLIGARCH?
Local government, health care and education is an example of this in Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland.
What is devolution?
Name a course country that has a unicameral legislature.
What is CHINA and IRAN?
The Nigerian constitution has put many provisions in place that support the Federal character including the fact that the President must receive what percentage of the vote in 2/3 of the regions in order to be elected.
What is 25%?
What is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ)?
Which course country has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 53% since 1990, and is on track to meet its net zero target by 2050?
What is the United Kingdom?
This treaty, which replaced the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 2020, is a mutually beneficial win for North American workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses.
What is the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)?
Reforms introduced by Boris Yeltsin to create a free market economy, allowing for political corruption amongst the oligarchs.
What is shock therapy?
In the 2010s the government in Britain introduced what type of program which required cuts in social services in order to balance the budget.
What is an austerity program?
This country's Senate has 109 senators, three from each of 36 states, and one from the federal capital territory, all elected by populate vote. Whereas the 360 members of the House of Representatives are elected from single member districts by plurality vote. This ensures regional representation.
Where is NIGERIA?
Ken Saro-Wiwa fought to secure financial benefits for the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta and to hold foreign companies accountable in part since Nigeria is a _______ state.
What is rentier?
The system which discourages or at least limits migration from rural to urban areas since workers are unable to get housing or schooling for their children without this permit.
What is hukou?
Due to NAFTA and now USMCA regulations, increased industrialization in Mexico has led to negative environmental consequences. What are the factories on the border called that offer a low-cost manufacturing operation in Mexico that manufactures goods for export to the United States or Canada?
What is a maquiladora? ?
The ruling party of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ended the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party — or PRI — which had governed the State of Mexico without interruption for nearly a century.
What is MORENA?
Russia maintains a federal governmental structure however in recent years, some republics have near autonomy, and others are much stronger than others. This is called ________________.
What is asymmetric federalism?
The 2016 vote to withdraw from Brexit was the result of a popular _________________ that gained traction due to anti-immigrant rhetoric and economic concerns.
What is a referendum?
Which legislative body in which country does this describe?
It has 500 seats; 300 members are elected by plurality vote and the other 200 members are elected according to proportional representation, through a system of regional lists (one for each of the 5 constituencies established for the election by law).
What is the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico?