Government
This government has more civil liberties for its citizens, fewer restrictions on media, and is centered around free and fair elections.
What is a democratic government?
2 answers: This type of legislature has 1 chamber. Name a course country with this type of legislature.
What is unicameral and China/Iran?
The overall term for groups formed by citizen interests.
What is civil society?
Type of voting areas elects one representative per electoral district.
What are single-member districts?
This process involves a country becoming more connected with other countries through trade and diplomatic relations.
What is globalization?
This type of government is marked by rule by law, strong executive leaders, and fewer civil liberties for its citizens.
What is an authoritarian government?
This type of governing means that no person is above the law, including government leaders.
What is rule of law?
This term describes the process in which people acquire their beliefs about government & politics.
What is political socialization?
This voting system popularized by the United Kingdom, states that the winner of the election is the candidate that wins the most votes.
What is First-Past-the-Post?
Becoming more of this term means that a country's economic system becomes more free market.
What is economically liberal?
This term refers to the idea that a country's citizens believes that the government of a country has the right to rule.
What is legitimacy?
This type of executive system combines all responsibilities into one head executive.
What is presidential system?
What is political participation?
In elections, this type of representation allows for more political parties to win seats in the legislative branch.
What is proportional representation?
The name for a country that receives much of its income by exporting or leasing a single raw material good.
What is a Rentier State?
This type of government concentrates all of its power at the national level.
What is unitary system?
Russia's government is often called this type of democracy, especially under its current leader.
What is an illiberal democracy?
Relationship in which politicians gain support through the mutual exchange of benefits or jobs.
What is Clientelism or Patronage?
Countries that have multiple political parties but a singular party has most of the political power and wins elections is called this.
What is Dominant Party State?
State-owned, or state-controlled, corporations created to undertake a broad range of public/private activities
What are parastatals or Semi-public institutions?
This system of government splits the power between the national and localized/state governments.
What is a federal system?
This act of government restructuring involves moving power and authority from a national government to state & local governments.
What is devolution?
The United Kingdom provides many social programs to its citizens, prompting it to be called what?
What is a (social) welfare state?
This type of organization allows for a country to be part of the organization, but requires them to give up some sovereignty.
What is a Supranational Organization?
"It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches the mice." The famous statement above reflects this leader's very different governing approach.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?