European Government

Vocabulary 1

100

HOG in a parliamentary democracy

Who is prime minister?

200

Germany used to be under this type of rule

What is autocratic/an autocracy?

300

Strict penalties for breaking rules or laws

What are sanctions?

400

King or queen is head of state, but power is limited due to a constitution

What is constitutional monarchy?

500

Another name for a federation

What is a federal republic?

Vocabulary 2

100

Head of state in a parliamentary democracy

Who is king/queen?

200

Another name for presidential democracy

What is democratic republic?

300

This term means "two houses"

What is bicameral?

400

This term means "law making"

What is legislative?

500

The value of currency (money) in one country versus another

What is exchange rate?

Government Systems 1

100

President is the head of state in this type of government

What is a presidential democracy?

200

Head of the executive branch in Russia

Who is the president?

300

Stalin was considered this type of ruler

What is a dictator/an autocrat?

400

Contrast a presidential democracy and a parliamentary democracy

What is in a presidential democracy, citizens directly choose their head of gov't; but in a parliamentary gov't, citizens do not directly elect their HOG?

500

How the government of Russia changed after the Cold War Ended

What is it changed from an autocracy to a democracy?

Government Systems 2

100

True or False:  The Bundestag selects a chancellor as head of government

What is True?

200

The head of government in Germany

What is a chancellor?

300

Describe the power structure of a federation

What is both local and central bodies share power?

400

What the gov't systems of UK, Russia, and Germany have in common

What is they are all democracies?

500

Contrast Germany's Gov't with Russia's

What is In Germany, citizens  elect the Bundestag and they elect the chancellor; but in Russia, citizens directly elect the president.

Miscellaneous

100

This country currently has a president and prime minister

What is Russia?

200

Bringing goods or services into a country to sell

What is import?

300

True or False:  The UK and Germany both have presidential democracies

What is False?

(They both have parliamentary democracies.)

400

When the central bodies have all control and the local bodies have none

What is unitary?

500

Contrast the gov't leadership in the UK and Russia.

What is the UK has a queen as HOS and prime minister as HOG, but Russia just has a president as HOG?