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21 Cards in this Set
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Government |
Leaders and institutions that make policy decisions for a country. |
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Politics |
How power is gained, managed, challenged, and maintained. |
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Empirical Data |
Comparing countries based on factual statements and statistics. |
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Normative |
Issues that require value judgements. |
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Three-World Approach |
Model for comparing countries. 1) The United States and it's Allies 2) The Soviet Union and it's Allies 3) "third world" nations |
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Third World Nations |
Economically underdeveloped and deprived countries. |
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Civil Society |
The way that citizens organize and define themselves and their interests. |
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Informal Politics |
Takes into consideration not only the ways that politicians operate outside their formal powers, but also the impact that beliefs, values, and actions of ordinary citizens have on policymaking. |
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State |
The organization that maintains a monopoly violence over territory. It defines who can and cannot use weapons and force, and it sets the rules as to how violence is used. |
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Sovereignty |
The ability of states to carry out actions or policies within their borders. |
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Nation |
A group of people that are bound together by a common political identity. |
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Regime |
That rules that a state sets and follows in exerting its power. |
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Indirect Democracy |
Elected officials represent the people. |
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Direct Democracy |
When individuals have immediate say over many decisions that the government makes. |
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Parliamentary Systems |
Citizens vote for legislative representatives, who in turn select leaders of the executive branch. |
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Presidential Systems |
Where citizens vote for legislative representatives as well as for executive branch leaders, and the two branches function with separation of powers. |
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Corporatism |
An arrangement in which government officials interact with people/groups outside the government before they set policy. |
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Patron-Clientelism |
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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Co-Optation |
The means a regime uses to get support from citizens. |
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Social Capital |
The amount of reciprocity and trust that exists among citizens, and between citizens and the state. |
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Political Culture |
The collection of political beliefs, values, practices, and institutions that the government is based on. |
