What is the number of countries in Europe that have unitary political systems?
100
Believed the primary role of government was to protect and enforce property rights of individuals?
Who is John Locke?
100
Different countries may have the same political structures but they may perform different functions.
What is structural functionalism?
100
attitudes, beliefs and values of the people in a country
What is Political Culture?
100
these groups are based on common interests and identities
What are non associational groups?
200
Named after the secretary of state in 1947, this outlined the objectives of a new U.S. policy for European Reconstruction.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
A condition of mankind in which philosophers believed no government existed.
What is the state of nature?
200
Authoritative and coercive power.
What kind of power does government have?
200
The most common way citizens express their feelings to their elected officials/
What is voting?
200
these groups quickly forms as a result of a reaction to an event
What are anomic groups?
300
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
What is the proper name of Great Britain?
300
Populations agree to this before governments are formed.
What is the Social Contract?
300
Process by which a nation state transitions from an authoritarian system to a democratic one.
What is democratization?
300
family, schools, religious institutions, peer groups
What are agents of socialization?
300
These groups are well organized and tied into institutions in a society
What are institutional groups?
400
The Thirty Years War
What is the name of the war fought between 1618-1648?
400
A process my which nation states in the same region cooperate.
What is regional integration?
400
this is a boycott of a product for political reasons
What is political consumerism?
400
This type of interest group is an institutional group tied into the political system
What is a political party?
500
Constitutional Monarchy
What is the official form of government of the United Kingdom?
500
Which continent is a major focus of Comparative Politics?
What is Europe?
500
In this type of political culture, citizens have a high level of knowledge about the system, have a strong attachment to the system and can offer evaluations of the system.