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109 Cards in this Set
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Allows for finallist to compete, and a single winner will win |
Run off election |
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What is the most popular voting system in europe |
Proportional voting system |
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Attemps to ensure that the percentage of seats a party gets is roughly equal tobits percentage of popular votes |
Proportional voting system |
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What is the worlds largets democracy |
India |
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Guilty till proven innocent. Less jury. |
Roman civil law |
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The court can check what the executive and legislative can do |
Judicial review |
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Precedent/ judge made law with adversarial courts |
Anglo-saxon common law |
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A decision reaches in a similar case by some previous judge |
Precedent |
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The organization that wants to destroy isreal for both religious and nationalist reason |
Hamas |
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An act of openly and deliberaty breaking a law and accepting the legal penalty in order to bring attention |
Civil disobedience |
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The use of violence or the threat of violence, usually by non state actors, to achieve political objective through fear |
Terrorism |
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The woman who attempted to kill mussolini |
Violet Gibson |
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Largest nation without a country |
Kerds |
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How people decide who is going to run for each party |
Primaries |
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Court case when the supreme court decided that coorporations can give unlimited amount of money to a canidit because it was considered free speech |
Citizens united |
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The event of multiple revolutions after people got sick of dictators. This ultimately caused the syrian civil war |
Arab springs |
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Beliefs that structure ones view of the world |
Ideaology |
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Marxist with an activist approach to revolution who hopes to achieve a communist society through armed revolt. (Industral nations) |
Leninist |
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Marxism that emulates the revolutionary tatics of Mao Zedong. Emphasizes a mobilization of rural peasantry against a capitalistic government |
Maoist |
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Believes everyone should play the capitalist game. Globalization |
Neo libralism |
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Means struggle in islam. Some believe it is personal while others believe its a holy war |
Jihad |
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Name a problem with democracy |
The majority oppresses the minority and we vote for people who tell us what we want to hear, not what we need to hear |
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People without their original homeland |
Diaspora |
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Descendents of abraham and the ancient hewbrew people of the bible. Most are secular |
Jews |
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Speakers of the arbic language |
Palestinians |
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Believes that jews should have a nationstate in their ancient ancestrail homeland |
Zionist |
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Establisment in palestine (isreal) of a nation home for jews |
Balford declaration |
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Why did the Oslo accord faild? |
Palistines did not give enough and isreal kept taking land |
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The event that paliestines fought back |
Intifada |
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What muslims are palestinians mainly |
Sunni |
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Isreals right wing leader |
Netanyahu |
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Where are we most likly to see nuclear war |
India and pakistan |
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A city in North Iteland that was catholic |
Free Derry |
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What stopped terrorism in ireland? |
It burned itself out. People voted for the creation of N. Ireland for autonomy (which has protesant majority) |
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If we can make good ties with ____ we can make ties with iran |
Vietnam |
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What terrorist group does iran sponsor |
Hezbollah |
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Is divided by population and gives us the average of per capita |
GDP |
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Means too many dollars for too few things. Makes it hard to compare one year to another |
Inflation |
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Factors inflation |
Real GDP |
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Usually reflects collapse of confidence in financial system |
Inflation and hyper inflation |
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What is US national debt |
20 trillion |
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Government expenditurez in a given fiscal year are more than its revenue and borrowing is required to make up the difference |
Budgetary defict |
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The sum total of money borroes by a government to cover past deficits |
National debt |
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A known country with high inflation |
Zimbabwe |
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Using up common resources in a short period of time, and we dont have those resources in the future |
Tragedy of the commons |
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What happened to food security |
It has decreased |
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Fish farming in a contained area |
Aquaculture |
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Meat use more water that producing plant based foods by |
20 times |
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Where is the majority of fresh water (70%) |
Glaciers and polar ice caps |
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Stated that the combustion of fossil fuels needs to be sharply reduced in the world to avoid catastrophic alterations in the weather pattern |
UN intergovernmental panel on Climate Change's Climate Change 2001 Synthesis Report |
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Rich countries can pay poor countries to not cut down trees |
UN REDD |
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The branch of political science in the structuring or ordering of the internal affairs of individual sovereign states |
Comparativev politics |
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A document that most countries use to explain their internal functioning |
Constitution |
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Compised of a general govenment with regional governments in a single political system |
Federal system |
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The central gov. Is ultimately supreme, and any administrative divions exercise only the powers that the central gov. Chooses |
Unitary system |
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Does the us have unitary or federal? |
Federal |
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The british voting district that elect a representaitve for the house of commons |
Constituency |
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An interdependence and mingling of the executive and legislative. [The legislature elect the executive] |
Parlamentary |
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A prime minister needs to denonstrate that his government comnands that majority by |
1. Survive no-confidence resolution. 2. Secure confidence bills |
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Bills that are major comonents of the prime minister legislative program |
Confidence bills |
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Political party alliance for combined action |
Coalition |
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In a parlimentry system, these elections are held when the gov. "Calls for them" |
Anticipated elections |
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Few monarchs who exersize real power |
Royal executive regimes |
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Monarchs who have lost their power but still have a ceremonial role |
Constitutional monarchs |
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Having more votes than any other party, but not a majority |
Plurality |
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When no sinlge party wins the majority seat in legislature. If minority parties are unable to agree on a prime minister, the head of state will appoint a nonpartisab figure to surve until new elections |
Hung parliament |
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Top two finalist face each other in a run off election so that the victor automatically has a majority |
Double-ballot |
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Two branches of gov. Effectivly blocking each other. Example, repulicans in the house of representatives and democrats in the senante |
Gridlock |
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Legislative bodies with only one chamber |
Unicameral legislature |
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Legislature divided into two chambers (most legislatures have this) |
Bicameral legislature |
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The lower house in germany that deals with the broad range of national legislation |
Bundestag |
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Used by the US and other formal british colonies, emphasises that the winner needs to only collect more votes than anyone else rather than an absolute majority |
Single member constituency SMC |
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Voters are presented with a list of candidates, they choose their first or second choice. Winner must havr 50+ % |
Sinlge transferable vote STV |
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What type of system does germany have |
Mixed member proportional system |
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Voters elect both the legislative and executive |
Presidential gov. |
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Has the authority to make laws for a political entity |
Legislature |
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1990s event of antagonism between russia and cheehens, or the russian presence in S. Ossetia |
Balkan Peninsula |
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The 4 levels of conflict |
1. Non violent. 2. Low intensity. 3. High intensity. 4. Societal mayham |
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Conventional warfare is a type of what violence |
High intensity |
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Nuclear war and generalized multilateral mass violence is a type of what violence |
Societal mayhem |
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Political groups demanding that civil law reflect religious law. Ex. Taliban |
Religion as an ideaology |
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National or ethnic group self-defining in terms or religion. Ex. North Ireland |
Relgion as nationalism |
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Group defined by religion demanding both national sovernty and change in public policy. Ex. Palestine Hamas |
Combination groups |
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Waged for control of economic wealth in form of mineral resources, water supplies, or arable land |
Resource war |
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Examples of resorce wars |
Congo and sierra leone with diamonds. Burma. Myanmar. Colombia |
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Guide south Africa to democracy during apartitde |
Desmond Tutu |
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A peace keeper who struggles to free tibetan people and proposed a democratic constitution for them |
Dalai lama, tenzin Gyatso |
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Conflict situation where there are mo rules and little rationality |
Anomic |
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A form of conflict in which lightly armed insurgent groups use hit and run combat to challenge establish government |
Guerrilla warfare |
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Two sidea to a violent conflictvuse highly contrasting tatics and weapontry |
Asymmetris warfare |
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Riffles, tanks, and aircraft carries are what type of weapons |
Conventional wepons |
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Nuclear, chemical and biological are |
Weapons of mass distruction |
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Fought within the boundaries of a given sovereign state by residence of that state |
Civil war |
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In iraq in the past, the ____ minority controls the country |
Sunni |
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The three ethnic groups in iraq |
Sunni, shi'ites, and kurds |
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A sunni muslim who controlled iraq until US intervention |
Saddam Hussein |
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War that drive Iraqi army out of kuwait |
Desert storm |
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Possible motives for 2003 attack on iraq |
Oil, american electorial politics, protection of isreal, anti islamis/arab, humanitarian missions, national security |
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Colombia wealthy land ownera knit paramilitary organization to fight guerrillas |
AUC (autodefense united of colombia |
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Unoffical military force |
Paramilitary |
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Argentine physician who help Castro with power in Cuba, then used island as his base while he tried to export revolution to Africa and Latin America |
Che Guevara |
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A member of a political party claiminf to represent the common people |
Populist |
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Islamic law code |
Sharia |
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Rule by God... God's self appointed earthly representatives |
Theocracy |
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The reasons why al-Qaeda hates the US |
Political imperialism. Cultural imeperialism. Palestine, iraq |
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The islamic religion of Saudi Arabia |
Wahhabism |
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Allegiance to ones "core" nation |
Nationalism |
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Post cold period, many latin american societies were |
Right wing elite dictatorships |
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The characteristics of protest in latin america |
Marxist gurrila |
