Institutions & Roles
The Head of Government in the United Kingdom holds this title.
What is Prime Minister?
The CCP's most powerful political body, which holds the real decision-making authority in China.
What is the Politburo?
Mexico’s president is restricted to this specific number of terms in office.
What is 1?
The ongoing violent insurgency of Boko Haram is primarily based in the northeastern region of this country.
Constitutional principle limits the president of Mexico to a single term, a constraint the UK Prime Minister does not face.
The lower, more powerful house of the UK Parliament.
What is the House of Common?
The post-1999 adoption of Sharia law in Nigerian northern states directly led to conflict between two religious groups.
What are Christian and Muslim?
The first-past-the-post system used for electing this country's legislature is largely responsible for its entrenched two-party dominance.
What is United Kingdom?
The Supreme Leader's office ensures that political decisions align with this country's Shiite religious identity.
What is Iran?
Both of these post-Communist states have political systems that are characterized by high levels of state-led capitalism
What are Russia and China?
The legislature of China is known by this three-word name.
What is National People's Congress?
The upper house of Russia's legislature, designed to represent the interests of the sub-national federal subjects.
What is the Federation Council?
The 2015 election was a historic milestone because it marked the first peaceful transfer of power in this country
What is Nigeria?
This group highlighted ethnic/regional cleavage in southern Chiapas in Mexico
What is the EZLN? /Zapatistas?
one of these countries has its legal system governed by a Theocracy, while the other's is a Secular system that permits local use of Sharia law.
What are Iran and Nigeria?
The official title for Iran's ultimate political and religious leader.
What is Supreme Leader/Ayatollah?
This chamber of the UK Parliament primarily performs the function of revising, delaying, and scrutinizing legislation.
What is House of Lords?
The bicameral legislature of this country is made up of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
What is Mexico?
What is a referendum?
Super-presidentialism describes the dominance and centralization of power by the president in these two countries
What are Russia and Nigeria?
The name of Russia’s lower legislative house.
What is the Duma?
The legal concept, based on precedent (past judicial decisions), used in the UK’s judiciary.
What is Common Law?
This powerful council is tasked with vetting all candidates for the presidential and Majles elections to ensure they are fit to govern.
What is the Guardian Council?
Drug cartels and corruption have been threats to this country's governments
What is Mexico?
The legislatures of these two countries are that one is a source of executive power, while the other is a rubber stamp for party decisions.
What are UK and China?