Chapter 6 - Governance and Politics

Question 1

malapportionment

Answer 1

form of gerrymandering

creating electoral districts with differing population sizes to benefit a political party

Question 2

centripetal forces

(…flower petals)

Answer 2

forces that bring a region together to form a nation state

Question 3

centrifugal forces

Answer 3

forces that make it hard to bind a region together to form a nation state

Question 4

core-periphery

Answer 4

the idea that regions are unequally divided between powerful cores and dependent peripheries

Question 5

homeland

Answer 5

a cultural region with close attachment to a certain group

strong emotional attachment

Question 6

rimland theory

Answer 6

the idea that the power controlling the rimland (inner crescent) could control all of Europe and Asia and therefore the world

Question 7

heartland theory

Answer 7

A theory by Mackinder that suggests the state who controlled Eurasia (the heartland) controlled the entire world