Ap Comparative Govt (Intro)

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The leadership and institutions that make policy decisions for a country.

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GOVERNMENT

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Way to compare countries up to the early 1990's based on Cold War politics.

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THREE-WORLD APPROACH

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The way that citizens organize and define themselves and their interests.

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CIVIL SOCIETY

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The ability to carry out actions or policies within a nation's own borders without interference either from the inside or the outside.

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SOVEREIGNTY

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The rules that a state sets and follows in exerting power (collectively).

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REGIME

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Citizens vote for legislative representatives who in turn select the leaders of the exectutive branch.

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PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY

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Citizens vote for legislative representatives as well as for exectutive branch leaders.

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PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM

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A role that symbolizes the power and nature of a government.

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HEAD OF STATE

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A role that deals with the everyday tasks of running the government.

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HEAD OF GOVERNMENT

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A prime minister coexists with a president who is directly elected by the people and who holds a significant degree of power.

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SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM

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AN arrangement in which government officials interact with people/groups outside the government before they set policy.

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STATE CORPORATISM

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Method through which business, labor, and/or other interest groups bargain with the state over economic policy.

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CORPORATISM

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A system in which the state provides specific benefits or favors to a single person or small group in return for public support.

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PATRON-CLIENTELISM

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A situation in which power is split among many groups for the chance to influence the government's decision-making.

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PLURALISM

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Authority based on a system of well-established laws and procedures.

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RATIONAL-LEGAL AUTHORITY

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Law based on tradition, past practices, and legal precedants set by the courts through interpretations of statutes, legal legislation, and past rulings.

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COMMON LAW

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Law based on a comprehensive system of written ules divided into commercial, civil, and criminal codes.

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CODE LAW

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The amount of reciprocity and trust that exists among citizens and between citizens and the state.

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SOCIAL CAPITAL

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Political culture that accepts both the legitimacy of the regime and solutions to major problems.

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CONSENSUAL

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Political culture whose citizens are sharply divided on both the legitimacy of the regime ans solutions to major problems.

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CONFLICTUAL

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Ideology that emphasizes individual political and economic freedom.

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LIBERALISM

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Ideology that values equality over freedom.

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COMMUNISM

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Ideology that values equality with more private ownership and free market principles.

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SOCIALISM

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Ideology that believes in no individual freedoms and no equality in the name of a strong society.

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FASCISM

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Type of change to change some of the methods that political and economic leaders use to reach goals that the society generally accepts.

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REFORM

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Implies change at a more basic level involving either a major revision or an overthrow of basic economic or political institutions.

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REVOLUTION

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The belief that rapid and dramatic changes need to be made in an existing society.

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RADICALISM

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Supports reform and gradual change rather than revolution.

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LIBERALISM

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Less supportive of change in general.

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CONSERVATISM

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"Turn back the clock"

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REACTIONARY BELIEFS

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Political system that consistt of fair and competitive elections as well as civil liberties, rule of law, neutrality of the judiciary, open civil society, and civilian control of the military.

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LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

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Fair and competitive elections without other qualities.

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ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY

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How citizens learn about politics in their country.

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POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION

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Divisions by social class, ethnicity, religion, and regional differences.

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SOCIAL CLEAVAGES

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Cleavage in which every dispute aligns the same groups against eachh other.

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COINCIDING

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Cleavage where disputes divide society into many potential issue groups on an issue-by-issue basis.

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CROSS-CUTTING

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Organizations outside the government that help people define and advance their own interests.

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CIVIL SOCIETY

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Agents that bind together thepeople of a state.

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CENTRIPETAL FORCES

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Agents that destabilize the government and encourage the country to fall apart.

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CENTRIFUGAL FORCES

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The tendency to decentralize decision making to regional governments.

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DEVOLUTION

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Electoral system where constituencies are divided into single-member districts in which candidates compete for a sinle representatove's seat.

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FIRST PAST THE POST;
PLURALITY SYSTEM;
WINNER TAKE ALL

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A national ballot called by the government on a policy issue.

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REFERENDUM

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A vote on a policy started by the people.

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INITIATIVE

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When autonomous groups compete with each other and with government for influence over state policies.

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INTEREST GROUP PLURALISM

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Fewer interest groups compete; one for each interest sector; monopoly is approved by the state.

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CORPORATISM

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Where the state determines which groups are brought in.

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STATE CORPORATISM

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Interest groups take the lead and dominate the state.

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SOCIETAL (Neo) CORPORATISM

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Like GDP, but takes into consideration what people can buy using their income in the local economy.

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PURCHASING POWER PARITY (PPP)