Chap 5+6 Definitions

Question 1

Community

Answer 1

A set of people accepting to make enforceable collective decisions on issues of common interest

Question 2

Empire

Answer 2

A vast compound of diverse territorial units with a set of multilevel jurisdictions

Question 3

Multilevel governance

Answer 3

The covering of different, overlapping territories by a set of races, or languages

Question 4

Multinational state

Answer 4

A state in which power is shared by people of multiple religions, races, or languages

Question 5

Nation

Answer 5

A culturally unified community within a sovereign state

Question 6

National state

Answer 6

A culturally unified community within a sovereign state

Question 7

Sovereignty

Answer 7

A single source of legitimacy holding the monopoly of organised violence

Question 8

State

Answer 8

A sovereign power over the population within a fixed territory with clear borders

Question 9

Bicameralism

Answer 9

The lower chamber in the assembly represents the entire population while the upper chamber gives overrepresentation to the people in smaller territories

Question 10

Federation

Answer 10

Local self-government and large-scale union, implying self-rule and shared rule

Question 11

Fragmentation

Answer 11

Number of different ethnic groups, as can be defined by religious, racial, or language affiliations, weighted by their size

Question 12

Polarisation

Answer 12

Relative sizes of different ethnic groups

Question 13

Political decentralisation

Answer 13

Share of local governments controlled by parties not in the central government

Question 14

Vertical division of powers

Answer 14

Allocation of different powers to the central and local governments