Governments, Systems, and Regimes

Question 1

refers to the institutional processes through which collective
and usually binding decisions are made

Answer 1

Government

Question 2

A network of relationships through which
government generates ‘outputs’ (policies) in response to ‘inputs’
(demands or support) from the general public.

Answer 2

Political system

Question 3

: A set of arrangements and procedures for government,
outlining the location of authority and the nature of the policy
process.

Answer 3

Regime

Question 4

A sudden and forcible seizure of government
power through illegal and unconstitutional action.

Answer 4

Coup d’état

Question 5

Paralysis resulting from institutional rivalry
within government, or the attempt to respond to conflicting public
demands.

Answer 5

Government gridlock

Question 6

The application of values and theories drawn from
one’s own culture to other groups and peoples

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Ethnocentrism

Question 7

A political leader whose control over the masses is
based on the ability to whip up hysterical enthusiasm.

Answer 7

Demagogue

Question 8

The theory or practice of absolute government, most
commonly associated with an absolute monarchy.

Answer 8

Absolutism

Question 9

The principle that political authority stems
ultimately from the consent of the people; the rejection of
monarchical and dynastic principles.

Answer 9

Republicanism

Question 10

an all-encompassing system of political rule, typically established by pervasive ideological manipulation and open terror. It differs from autocracy and authoritarianism, in that it seeks to politicize every aspect of social and personal existence, rather than just suppress
political opposition.

Answer 10

Totalitarianism

Question 11

The total financial value of final goods
and services produced in an economy over one year.

Answer 11

Gross domestic product

Question 12

Such regimes are a product of the first two ‘waves’
of democratization

Answer 12

Western liberal democracies / polyarchies

Question 13

refers, generally, to the institutions and political processes of modern representative democracy

Answer 13

Polyarchy

Question 14

The introduction of internal and external checks on
government power and/or shifts towards private enterprise and the
market.

Answer 14

Liberalization

Question 15

Are organized to the parliamentary lines according to a system of
government in which the executive is drawn from, and accountable to, the assembly or parliament

Answer 15

Majority Democracies (Westminster Model)

Question 16

A form of democracy that operates through power-sharing and a close association amongst a number of parties or political formations.

Answer 16

Consociational democracy / Consensus Democracies

Question 17

Regimes in which the process of democratic
consolidation is incomplete; democracy is not yet the ‘only game in
town

Answer 17

New democracies

Question 18

refers to a rule of decision-making in which the preferences of the majority overrule those of the minority

Answer 18

Majoritarianism

Question 18

A regime in which democratic and authoritarian features and operate
alongside one another in a stable combination.

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Semi-democracy

Question 19

the balance of the
world’s economy shifted markedly from the West to the East in the rise of this regime

Answer 19

East Asian regimes

Question 20

The rise of Islam as a political force

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Islamic regimes

Question 21

Islamic law, believed to be based on divine revelation, and
derived from the Koran, the Hadith (the teachings of Muhammad),
and other sources.

Answer 21

Shari’a

Question 22

A dictatorship is, strictly, a form of rule in which absolute power is
vested in one individual

Answer 22

Dictatorship

Question 23

The key feature of this regime is that the leading posts in
the government are filled on the
basis of the person’s position
within the military chain of
command.

Answer 23

Military regimes

Question 24

Literally, ‘a council’; a (usually military) clique that
seizes power through a revolution or coup d’état.

Answer 24

Junta