A state has a government that institutes laws and a nation is created over time with the same dialect and spelling.
What is the difference between a nation and a state?
100
Cultural characteristics differentiating one group from another.
What is ethnicity?
100
First Tsar of Russia.
Who is Ivan the terrible?
100
It is a belief system-usually ending in -ism that claim to aim at the improving society.
What is ideology
100
Mass perception that regime's rule is rightful.
What is Legitimacy?
200
All states are to a certain degree _____.
What is constructed?
200
Values and attitudes of citizens regarding politics and society.
What is Political Culture?
200
A continent that the main European empires ruled over.
What is Africa?
200
A nation's ________, itself an instruction, may give us some clues, but does not always pinpoint real power centers.
What is a constitution?
200
A country's educational system.
What is a major contributor to political culture?
300
Many countries are _________, with population divided by language or ethnicity.
What is multinational?
300
Gross Domestic Product; sum total of goods and services produced in a country in one year.
What is GDP?
300
Country that began the voyages of discovery.
What is Portugal?
300
Having one or two chambers of parliament.
What is bicameral and unicameral?
300
ideology
What do regimes use to increase their legitimacy.
400
The worse off will always want more than what is needed.
Why is redistribution never settled?
400
Untrusting; belief that political system is wrong and corrupt.
What is cynical?
400
A system where there is a "category or parties/ organizations that have successively won election victories and whose future defeat cannot be envisaged or is unlikely for the for seeable future.
What is a dominant-party system?
400
Established rules and relationships of power.
What is an institution?
400
It can be created over a long time as a government endures and governs well. It can erode as unstable and corrupt regimes come and go, never winning the people's respect.
what is legitimacy over time?
500
They both are finding examples and patterns of evidence.
How are generalizations and theories related?
500
without ideological considerations; based on practicality.
What is pragmatic?
500
Geographic disadvantages of Russia.
What is long harsh winters and vast lands?
500
The mass perception that regime's rule is rightful.
What is legitimacy?
500
those few who is high in education and with great influence.
Who is most likely to be considered to be an elite?