final exam Flashcards
Supreme power or authority// authority of a state to govern itself.
Sovereignty
to give a political tone or character to//an attempt to politicize the civil service.
Politicization
community of citizens linked by common interests and collective activity.
Civil Society
are a class of rights that protect individuals freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one’s entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression.
Political rights
A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
Constitution
Elements of identity along which groups boundaries can be constructed. Ex: Religion, language, skin color, rural vs. urban, professional
Markers
qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and or expressions that make a person or group// identity politics tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad base party politics
Identity
Legislative body having two chambers.
Bicameral
single legislative chamber
Unicameral
a political attitude of devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country combined with a feeling of shared community with fellow citizens, especially as contrasted with a similar attitude based on ethnicity, race, or religio
Civic Nationalism
a political approach that favours free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending: social and political issues surrounding neoliberalism.
Neoliberalism
monetary inflation occurring at a high rate.
Hyperinflation
the outcome of the elections is representative of the people.
Substantive Democracy
all electoral process is at the core of the authority.
Procedural democracy
Those features of the constitution that shape the political system–separation of power and responsibilities. Includes: legislatures, executive, judiciary, bureaucracy
Constitutional design
A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
Inflation
A key function of states is the coordination of military action to protect the citizenry against potential foreign threat.
Defense
States establish organizations to police their societies internally. Is one of the key mechanisms in which the monopoly on force is maintained.
Policing
most states gather considerable information about their territory and about their population. They invest in maps and territorial demarcation, surveys, and census which allows delivering better services.
Order/Legibility
The action of making something accessible to everyone.
Democratization
Type of governmental system distinct from successive government administrations and from state itself.
Regime
the central political institution that exerts a “monopoly” on the legitimate use of physical force within a territory
State
Head of Government is indirectly elected & accountable to the legislature. Power is fused with the legislative branch – Head of Government serves only with the continued confidence of the legislature.
Parliamentary
Directed elected, serves as chief executive, independent of the legislature, combines head of state and government.
Presidential
Some elements are more easily changed than other
Stickiness
Executive’s ability to leverage control over its own party.
Partisan power
Influence gained through custom, convention. Campaign on behalf of particular candidates.
Informal power
a sovereign state of which most of the citizens or subjects are united also by factors which define a nation, such as language or common descent: Nepal emerged as a nation state in the eighteenth century.
Nation state
Organizations are this when they have a rational universally applicable system, administered on the basis of rules and by office holders.
Bureaucracy
reduction of the general level of prices in an economy.
Deflation