Political Scientists
Field within political science that focuses on domestic politics (internal) and analyzes patterns of similarity and difference.
What is Comparative Politics?
The most power political institutions in a country, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
What is a state?
Political power exercised either directly or indirectly through participation, competition, and liberty.
What is democracy?
This type of regime concentrates all policy making powers in one geographic place. Central government is responsible for most policies.
What is unitary?
Social class, ethnicity, religion, region are all examples of this.
What are social cleavages?
Sixty-three percent of Nigerians have a favorable view of China is an example of this type of data.
What is empirical?
States that have this concept, have ultimate authority over their territory.
What is sovereignty?
Competitive Elections, civil liberties, rule of law, open civil society, rule of law are all characteristics of this.
What is liberal democracy?
Power divided between the central government & sub-units. Regional bodies have significant powers (taxation, lawmaking, keeping order) in this type of system.
What is a federal system?
Large scale grassroots action that demands reforms of existing social practices and government policies.
What are social movements?
This is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and having a decent standard of living.
What is Human Development Index?
A human community with a shared history, culture, and/or political identity.
What is a nation?
A political regime where a small group of individuals exercises power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public. Rule by law is typical in this regime.
What is authoritarianism?
Sometimes, leaders of unitary systems voluntarily choose to decentralize power using this concept.
What is devolution?
What is transparency?
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
Political system of a state that endures beyond individual governments or leaders
What is a regime?
A state where the government has been brought to power (and perhaps reelected) by democratic election, but then takes steps to seriously limit political competition, undermine the rule of law, and deprive citizens of their basic rights.
What is an illiberal democracy?
Citizens vote for legislative reps, which pick leader of executive branch from majority party in this system
What is parliamentary?
Process through which citizens learn about politics in their country and become part of the political culture.
What is political socialization?
GDP plus income earned by the country's residents; another broad measure of the size of the economy.
Traditions, charismatic leadership, rational legal systems, economic performances, and nationalism are sources of this concept.
What is legitimacy?
A democratic political system that has been solidly and stably established for an ample period of time and in which there is relatively consistent adherence to core democratic principles.
What is consolidated democracy or democratic consolidation?
Citizens vote for legislative reps and executive branch leaders in this system. The head of state and head of government is usually the same person.
What is a presidential system?
Ideologies that favor more government regulation of the economy, are less socially conservative, land on this side of the political spectrum.
What is the left?