Comp Politics Quiz 2
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- 3 Physical Needs met in the good society:
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- Food
- Shelter
- Health Care
- People should be able to make ____ choices about how to live.
- Educated
- People should have Political and Civil Rights to protect the rights that give them _______.
- Capability
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The Degree to which countries approach a good society and enhance the capability of its citizens is determined by its ______ ______ .
- Institutional Arrangement
- States use _____ to make rules and exercise power.
- Institutions
- Capability
- The amount of functions an individual has (access to food, shelter, healthcare, influence gov't.
- Power
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The ability to get people to do things they would not have ordinarily done on their own.
- States ______ citizens to accept their rules as legitimate by using patriotic symbols and nationalistic ideals.
- Socialize
- States offer and withhold _____ in order to get citizens to conform.
- Resources
- States can _____ citizens who do not follow rules.
- Punish
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3 Characteristics of States
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- Set of Public Organizations
- Final decision making body within borders (Sovereignty)
- Maintain sovereignty by controlling monopoly of violence within area.
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Weak states lack ______ to make rules.
- Institutional Capacity
- 3 Main Types of States
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- Authoritarian
- Democratic
- Transitional
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5 types of democracies
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- Presidential
- Semi-Presidential
- Parliamentary
- Federal
- Unitary
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Presidential Democracy : Example
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United States
- Parliamentary Democracy : Example
- U.K.
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Shadow Cabinet
- Senior group of opposition in Britain
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Snap Elections
- Elections called earlier than expected.
- Unitary Governments
- Power concentrated at the national level. Little power for local governments.
- Federal Governments
- Power divided by national government and lower levels of states.
- Worldwide, _______ systems of government are more common than federal.
- Unitary
- Bicameral
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2 chambers of legislature; less common, less efficient.
- Unicameral
- 1 chamber of legislature; more common, more efficient.
- ______ states and _____ systems are more likely to be bicameral.
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Larger, Federal
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Bureaucracy
- Different agencies and bureaus in executive branch
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3 Forms of Authoritarian Governments
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- Fascism
- Military Dictatorships
- Party Dictatorships
- Most common authoritarian government type:
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Party Dictatorship
- Moore's way of determining whether or not a state is democratic:
- A large, vigorous, independent, commercial, and confident middle class.
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63% of the world's states are ________ governments.
- Democratic
- Authoritarian states thrive where _____ exports make the states wealthy... The curse of _____.
- Oil
- ____ clearly increase its citizens capability more than dictatorships.
- Democracies