Comparative Politics 9/21

Question 1

State

Answer 1

Institutionalized authority in a country

Question 2

Country

Answer 2

The broadest concept, included the state, government, regime, and the people who live within that political system

Question 3

Nation

Answer 3

Group of people bound together by a common set of political aspirations

Question 4

Regime

Answer 4

Most fundamental rules about authority

Question 5

Government

Answer 5

The actual leadership running the state, exercising authority in a regime.

Question 6

Authority

Answer 6

Citizens generally accept that state and their leaders have the right to issue rules with much interference from competitors, external or internal

Question 7

Autonomous state

Answer 7

The state is completely independent from people and rulers are free to pursue their internal goals

Question 8

Pluralistic state

Answer 8

The state is seized by social groups and policies depend on which groups is winning

Question 9

Legitimacy

Answer 9

The belief that a rule, institution, or leader has the right to govern

Question 10

Traditional legitimacy

Answer 10

Obey out of habit; cultural values

Question 11

Charismatic legitimacy

Answer 11

Based on qualities of a leader and is tied to a specific leader

Question 12

Rational-legal legitimacy

Answer 12

Based on a system of laws that procedures that are seen neutral and rational; obey leaders who inhabit offices, depersonalized, bureaucracy