Chapter 5 Flashcards
The degree to which government processes and procedures are established, predictable, in routinized.
Institutionalization
The ability of this citizenry directly or indirectly, to control political leaders and institutions.
Accountability
The ability of the people in society to hold the state accountable.
Verticle Accountability
The ability of state institutions to hold each other accountable.
Horizontal Accountability
Branch of government that must exist in all modern states.
Executive Branch
Branch of government that makes law in a democracy.
Legislature
Branch of government that carries out law in a democracy.
Judiciary
Type of democracy with executive dominance over the legislature. It is a single party executive.
Majoritarian Democracy
Type of democracy with legislative/Executive balance. Bicameral.
Consensus Democracy
A government where two parties negotiate an agreement to rule together.
Coalition Government
A presidential system of democracy where the executive and legislature are elected separately and have their own powers.
Presidentialism
President and Prime Minister share powers.
Semi-Presidentialism
President and Prime ministers from 2 different parties share power.
Cohabitation
Judges base their decision on the law and past court cases.
Common-Law
Judges must follow the law as written.
Code Law
Theory of reform of bureaucracies that argues for the privatizing of government services.
New Public Management (NPM)
Political systems in which a state’s power is legally divided among different levels of government.
Federal Systems
Central Government has all of the power.
Unitary Systems
