Systems
People vote for legislature, then legislature selects prime minister (whomever is head of majority party in parliament) in this system.
What is parliamentary?
He is the head of state of the United Kingdom.
Who is King Charles III?
Name two responsibilities of the head of government.
What are appoints cabinet to oversee bureaucracy and civil service? Proposes/approves domestic legislation?
These are institutional constraints on the length of time a head of state or head of government can serve in office.
What are executive term limits?
Used in parliamentary systems as a method for the legislature to remove the prime minister as head of government.
Vote of No Confidence.
The state’s legitimate right to enforce a power.
What is authority?
This country was at the forefront of the industrial revolution, empire, and liberal democracy.
What is the United Kingdom?
This is information that is difficult to measure including sources such as speeches, foundational documents, political cartoons, maps, and political commentaries.
What is a qualitative statement?
People vote for legislature & president in separate elections. Legislature & Executive are separate branches. President selects his cabinet (team of advisors) in this system.
What is presidential?
Name two responsibilities of the head of state.
What are Ceremonial Leader, Commander in Chief, Foreign Policy Leader?
Name any two prime ministers of the United Kingdom since 2012.
Who are Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron?
Khomeini, Khamenei
Mexico and Nigeria share this executive removal process.
Refers to whether a government’s constituents believe their government has the right to rule.
He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This is fact-based information from observation or experimentation.
What is quantitative data?
The president usually nominates the prime minister, which implies that the prime minister would support the president’s policy agenda in this system.
What is semi-presidential?
He is the head of state of Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This group selects the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
What is the majority party of the House of Commons?
The current president of Mexico term ends after this amount of years.
What is 6?
These are the two ways that executives can be removed in Russia's semi-presidential system.
What are 2/3rd Federal Assembly Impeach No Confidence (Duma)?
The use of government force to guide citizen behavior and actions. Can be as small as a citation and small fine to as large as brute force and violence.
What is coercion?
The Iranian Revolution occurred in this consequential year.
What is 1979?
This figure shows income inequality within a country.
What is GINI?
This system is viewed as the most efficient in terms of lawmaking because of the fusion of powers.
What is parliamentary?
He sets the overall state agenda, serves as commander in chief, and appoints half the Guardian Council and all members of the Expediency Council in Iran.
Who is the Supreme Leader?
These are the current head of government and head of state in Nigeria and Mexico.
Buhari and AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador)
These are two advantages of terms limits.
Check executive power & inhibit emergence of dictators & personality rule
Help focus the officeholder on governing rather than winning elections
Provide opportunities for new leaders w/new ideas, policies, goals
This body can remove the president and premier of China.
What is the NPC?
These type of states concentrate power at the national level with more uniform policies and potentially more efficient policy making.
What is Unitary?
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This reflects the size of the national economy in comparison with the population size.
What is GDP per capita?
This system is more likely to experience gridlock.
What is presidential?
Who is Xi Jinping?
Name two executive roles that the president and prime minister share in Russia.
What is cabinet appointments and proposing and approving laws?
Impede policy continuity
Weaken accountability
Create a lame-duck period
Prevent officeholder from building experience
Cause poorly designed policy
This body can remove the Supreme Leader in Iran.
What is the Assembly of Experts?
Delegation of power to regional governments that can enhance or weaken legitimacy; can create both opportunities for as well as obstacles to resolving social, political, and economic issues.
What is devolution?
This terrorist group dominated Northern Nigeria in the 2010's.
What is Boko Haram?
This a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions including statistics about life expectancy, amount of schooling, and income.
What is Human Development Index of (HDI)?