Vocab
What is a Democracy?
The branch of government that makes the laws
What is the legislature?
This form of government has one leader with all the power and citizens have little or no power
What is an autocracy?
This country gives its citizens the least participation in choosing leaders
What is Russia?
This keeps a democracy from becoming an autocracy
What is equal distribution of power?
A symbolic leader of a country
What is a Head of State?
The leader who runs the government (e.g., prime minister or president)
What is the Head of Government?
In a parliamentary democracy, ______ selects the prime minister
What is the legislature (parliament)?
This country has a dictator as a leader, who obtained power by force. He is the only one with political power. This form of government is _______
What is an autocracy?
This person holds the LEAST amount of executive power in the UK government
What is the monarch?
An organized group with similar political beliefs that seeks to influence government by getting candidates elected
What is a political party?
A democratic system where the legislature (parliament) selects the head of government (prime minister).
What is a parliamentary democracy?
In Germany, this individual is the head of government
What is the Chancellor?
This legislature is a two-house law-making body
What is bicameral?
This is a basic way in which citizens of a democratic nation can influence the government
What is voting?
A political and economic organization of European countries that work together to promote trade, peace, and cooperation
What is the European Union?
The power of an executive to reject a law proposed by the legislature
What is a veto?
Citizens in the UK vote for members of this body of government
What is the House of Commons (Parliament)?
Members of this legislative body in the UK are not elected, but appointed
What is the House of Lords?
In this country, citizens who are 18 years or older may vote; the Chancellor is the leader of the majority party from the Bundestag
What is Germany?
The ways in which citizens influence government, such as voting or running for office
What is citizen participation?
A democratic system where the citizens directly elect the head of government
What is a presidential democracy?
In this system, the executive is also part of the legislature
What is a parliamentary democracy?
In a parliamentary democracy, the head of government is chosen by_______
What is the legislature?
What is the executive branch?