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Intro Concepts
Mexico
Nigeria
China
WILD
100
Political parties, interest groups, and the media are examples of ___________, institutions that connect government to its citizens.
linkage institutions
100
Miguel de Madrid and Carlos Silinas are known for making ____________ economic reforms in the 1980s and 1990s.
liberal (neoliberal, market-oriented, etc)
100
___________, a southern Yoruba, was selected to lead the Fourth Republic; even the northern Hausa trusted him because, in 1979 he had proved his commitment to democracy by handing over power to Shehu Shagari, beginning the Second Republic.
Obasanjo
100
The 7 to 9 member institution that holds the highest power in the CCP is the ______________.
standing committee of the politburo.
100
______________ voting usually leads to a multiparty system.
proportional
200
_______________ is authority over a given territory; a state exercises this through its institutions.
sovereignty
200
Since the early 1990s, the Mexican government has been trying to devolve more and more power to state and local governments, but these state and local governments have resisted this mainly because they do not have much _____.
money/resources/funding
200
When Yar'Adua died of illness during his presidency, his inner circle tried to take power and benefit from government resources, but international pressure, domestic threats of a coup, and the support of Obasanjo helped vice-president ______________ to secure the role of acting-president.
Goodluck JONATHAN
200
The _____, the institution within the CCP that investigates corruption/rule-breaking within party, has a great deal of power, since it can end someone's career and even hand that person over the judiciary for trial.
CCDI (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection)
200
Two other names for the "first-past-the-post" voting system
"winner-take-all" ; plurality system
300
____________ is the process where states pool their sovereignty, often creating supranational organizations like the EU.
integration
300
Creating an electoral regulatory commission and including some ___________ representation in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate helped Mexico transition to a multiparty system.
proportional
300
Nigerian officials abandoned the _____ adopted in the 1980s because its strict austerity measures were too much for the Nigerian people.
SAP (structural adjustment program)
300
How has the hukou system affected the floating population?
Makes them technically illegal in cities, so they can't receive education or health benefits.
300
The principle of ______________ sovereignty in Britain explains why the British judiciary did not develop the full power of judicial review.
parliamentary sovereignty
400
___________ cleavages tend to lead to more conflict within a state, since people divide into the same basic groups even when different social factors (religion, ethnicity, wealth) are taken into account.
coinciding cleavages
400
___________ (money sent by migrants working abroad to family) account for 2% of the Mexican GDP, and is the only source of income for certain rural native communities.
remittances
400
The First Republic differed from the Second Third and Fourth Republics in Nigeria in that it used a ________ system; the change to a ____________system was supposed to help ease ethnic, regional, and religious tensions by allowing more than one group to have power in the government.
parliamentary; presidential
400
Except for local level elections, the elections in China are ____________ (with an elected organization voting for the leaders of a higher organization).
indirect
400
In the Russian Federation, ______ is a meeting between the president and the heads of subunits (governors, presidents of the internal republics), but in China, this is similar to a cabinet, and includes the premier (prime minister) and the heads of the various ministries.
State Council
500
Nationalism can be both a __________ and a ____________ force, because it can bind citizens of a state more closely together by creating a common identity, or, in a multinational state, can lead to certain groups breaking away and forming their own states.
centripetal; centrifugal
500
_________ (the patron-client networks that allow political elites to maintain power) extend through all levels of Mexican government; in fact, clientelism can be seen as a form of participation, since even the very poor can try to use connections to get something out of the political system.
Camarillas
500
In Nigeria, the president is elected using _______voting; the Senate is elected using _______ voting, and the House of Representatives is elected using _________ voting.
first-past-the-post (for all three)
500
Unlike Mao and Deng, presidents since the 1990s in China have been ____________ (career-minded bureaucrats whose decisions are influenced more by expertise than by politics or wishes of the public).
technocrats
500
In which of the six core states is/are the head of government and the head of state combined into a single position? Please name the person currently holding this position in this/these states.
Mexico and Nigeria, Pena Nieto and Buhari