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Late Quiz Vocab Flashcards

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Reich

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German term for empire

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Prussia

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Most powerful German state before unification

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Weimar Republic

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First democratic republic, replaced by Hitler

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Third Reich

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Hitlers fascist totalitarian regime

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National Socialist Party

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Hitlers fascist party

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Adolf Hitler

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Nazi leader of their reich

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Basic law

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Germanys current constitution

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Federal Republic of Germany

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Democratic west Germany during the postwar division of Germany

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German Democratic Republic

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Communist East Germany during postwar division

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Christian democratic union

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Germanys largest conservative party

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Reunification

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1990 integration of east and west germany

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Federal Chancellor

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Germanys prime minister and head of government

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Federal president

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Indirectly elected and largely ceremonial head of state

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Bundestag

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Lower house of Germanys legistlature

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Bunderstrat

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Upper house of Germanys legislature

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Lander

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German states

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Federal Constitutional Court

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Powerful court that interprets basic law

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Minister-President

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Governor of a German state

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Catchall parties

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Attract voters of all classes and are centrist

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Angela Merkel

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Germanys conservative chancellor

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Social democratic party

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Small centrist party that often forms coalitions

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Free democratic party

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Small centrist party that often forms coalitions

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Green party

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Germanys environmental party

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The Left

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Farthest left german party

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Gastarbeite

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Guest workers or foreign workers

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Social market economy

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Countrys capitalist economy with social democratic features

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Codetermination

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Unions must occupy half of the board of directors seats of large private firms

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Article 9

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Peace clause of japans constitution. Renounce the right to wage war

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Self defense force

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Japans military with only defensive capabilities

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30
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Rich Country, Strong Military

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Mercantilist slogan promoting modernization efforts

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Liberal democratic party

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Conservative party, has had over 6 decades of governence since 1955

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Samurai

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Japans feudal era warrior retaiiners

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Shogun

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Dominant lord in feudal Japan

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34
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Meiji restoration

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Revolution from above. Modernization in the name of Meiji emporer

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Meiji oligarchs

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Junior samurai who led Japans 19th century modernization

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Diet

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Bicameral parliament electoral system

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Taisho democracy

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Tentative democratization in Japan

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Iron triangle

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Conservative alliances between elite bureaucrats, politicians, and big business executives

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Democratic party

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Social-democratic party from 2009-2012

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Twisted diet

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No party or coalition controls both chambers of parliament

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House of representatives

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Lower champer of Japans legislature

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House of councillors

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Upper chamber of Japans legislature

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Pork-barrel projects

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Government appropriation and policy supplying funds for local improvements to ingratiate legistatures with constituents

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Koenkai

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Local campaign organizations that supports a condidate, not a party

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Administrative guidance

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Extralegal policy from government officials to private sector

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Amakudari

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Descent from heaven. Retiring bureaucrats run for political office

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Abenomics

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Prime Minister Abes three-pronged plan for economic recovery

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Yasukuni shrine

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Controversal Shinto shrine honoring Japans war dead

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Komeito

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Minor political party/LDP coalition partners from buddhist religion

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Keiretsu

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Japand large business groupings

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Capitalist developmental state

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Japans modern neomercantilist state. Focuses on private property and state economic intervention

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Industrial policy

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Government measures to promote economic and industrial development

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Zombie firms

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Japanese firms rendered bankrupt during recession but propped up by banks and politicians

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Senkaku islands

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5 uninhabited islands on East China Sea. Land claims between Japan and China

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French revolution

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Overthrow in 1789-1799 of french absolute monarchy and establishment of the first republic

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Yellow vests movement

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Mass protests in opposition to tax reforms and reductions in subsidies for gas

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Absolute monarchy

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Stage of European development between decentralized feudal monarchies. and constitutional governments

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National assembly

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Lower house of french parliament

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Reign of terror

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Seizure of power and class war launched by the radical Jacobins in revolutionary France

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Events of May

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Parison riots where students and workers called for educational and social reforms

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Semi-presidential

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Executive system that divides power between a president and prime minster

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Council of Ministers

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Cabinet selected by the prime minster

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Motion of censure

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Legislature against the government. New elections are required when proposed legislation submitted as matter of confidence are not passed

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Cohabitation

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Presidents lack a majority of legislative power appoint a prime minister from an opposite party who will have a majority support in the legislature

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Parlement

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Frances bicameral legislature

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Senat

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Upper house of french legislature

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Blocked vote

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Vote that forces the legislature to accept bills in their entirety and amendments must be approved by the government

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Code law

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Law derived from detailed legal codes not precedent

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Constitutional council

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Highest judicial authority on constitutional/electoral matters

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Prefect

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Government appointed local office

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Rally for the Republic

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Nationalist, socially conservative, Eurosceptic party on French right

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Union for a popular Movement

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Center right french party, renamed that republicans

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French Communist Party

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Dominant left french party since ww2

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4 party, 2 bloc system

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Coalition building in the second round of the 2 round SMD system

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National front

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Far right political party, renamed national rally in 2018

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Union for French Democracy

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Alliance of 5 center-right parties in 1978 as a neoliberal force of the french right

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Republicans

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Main french right party, previously named the Union for a Popular Movement

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General confederation of labor

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Most powerful French union confederation

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French democratic labor confederation

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CFDT. Smaller confederation back by the socialist party

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Laicite

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Subordination of religious identity to state and national identity–state over church

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Populism

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Political view that does not have a consistent ideological foundation but emphasizes hostility towards elites and established state and economic institutions and favors greater power in the hands of the people

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Dirigisme

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Emphasis on state authority in economic development. Social democratic and mercantilist combination

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Authoritarian

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A political system in which mall groups of individuals exercise power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public

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Nondemocratic regime

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A political regime in which mall groups of individuals exercise power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public

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Totalitarianism

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Nondemocratic regime that is highly centralized, possessing some form of strong ideology that seeks to transform and absorb fundamental aspects of state, society and the economy

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Resource curse

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Theory of development in which the existence of natural resources in a given state is a barrier to modernization and democracy

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Populism

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Political view that does not have a consistent ideological foundation but emphasizes hostility toward elites and established state and economic institutions and favors greater power in the hands of the public

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Corporatism

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Co-optation where authoritarian systems create or sanction a limited number of organizations to represent the interest of the public and restrict those not set up or approved by the state

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Clientism

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Process whereby the state coopts members of the public by providing specific benefits or favors to a single person or a small group in return for public support

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Rent seeking

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Process in which political leaders essentially rent out parts of the state to their patrons who as a result control public goods that would otherwise be distributed in a nonpolitical manner

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Kleptocracy

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Rule by theft. Those in power seek only to drain the state of assets and resources

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Patrimonialism

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Arrangement whereby a ruler depends on a collection of supporters within the state who gain direct benefits in return for enforcing the rulers will

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Bureaucratic Authoritariansim

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A system in which the state bureaucratic and the military share a belief that a technocratic leadership focused on rational objective and technical expertise can solve the problems of the country without public participation

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Illiberal regime

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Democratic institutions that rest on the rule o flaw are weakly institutionalized and poorly respected

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