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THE STATE Flashcards

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THE STATE

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  • process of creation and development of more new complex and efficent form of social organization
  • the core concept of poly sci
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the governer of canada

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  • Represent the Canadian monarchy
  • represents federally
  • chosen by Canadians themselves
  • London confirms choice made by the Canadian government
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neolibersim

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  • the ideology that emphizes vaule to the free market competition
  • the ideology of globalization
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seperation of powers

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  • the division of legislative, excutive and judical functions of government among a independent body
  • important to democratic government because it prevents consitutional power to ones organzation of state power
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legitmacay

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  • the right and acceptance of authorties , mostly governor of law or regime
  • one of the charactistices of the modern state
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communism

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  • the ideology of replacing captailism with a system that is not based on private property
  • private property is unexisting and serverly reduced
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civil society organzation ( CSO)

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  • the organzational structure of citizens who have a general intrest in the democratic governement
  • it plays the role of mediator between the public authorties and citizens
  • non governmental
  • voluntary
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facism

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  • nationalisiom and change
  • ideology of exterme rights because of exterme nationalism
  • ruled by a powerful dictorship
  • wants to eliminate demoncratic government
  • militarism was existed due to wage war
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social equaility

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the inblances between classes in society
- some may have more social power than others
- some factors are ethniciy, race, gender, income

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consitution

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conisution sets fundamental rights for a country
- cannot be violated by any government/system
- a strong consitution is required for a democratic governace

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Majority systems

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  • electroal systems where you can elect repersentives
  • must vote for an indivudal
  • must vote for a specfic canadiate represeting the NDP
  • you are not voting for a party
  • only one leader can be selected
  • voters are left without representation
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polotical culture

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  • a borad pattern of politcal ortenintation shared by a large group of people such as region, nation, ethnic group and a class
  • theres 3 divsions of polotical culture such as system, process, policy
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multinational / transitional

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company that does business with a selected few contries around the world
- has facilitys of warehouses or distrubutions in atleast one forgein conuntry

TRANSITIONAL: enterprise that invloves
- international prodction of goods or services
- forgein investments
- asset and income manegment
in more than one contry

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rights

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  • the legal, ethical, social princapals of freedom
  • the fundemental law of what people are allowed to do, and what people oew
  • people according by the legeal system, social convention , ethical theorys
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public goods

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service that benefits all citizens in society, and is usually free because of public taxation
- non-excludable and unmatched

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Soventriy

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  • the dominant power of supreme authority in the monarchy
  • exists in the sovergin or the king
  • in modern democraices the soverginity resets with the people
  • excersied through the congress and parliment
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authority

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  • the legitimate power of a person or group over people
  • in a civil state it is exercised through judicial and executive forms of government
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the rule of law

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  • the creation of laws, and their enforcements and relationships among legal rules so they are legalelly regulated so no one is above the law.
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International financial institutions

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  • a financial institution established by many countries
  • fundings in development and humantarian projects in different countries.
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confederation

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  • the permenant union of soverity states for certain purposes
  • ex: german confedrartion
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ideology

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  • is a set of ideas
  • has ideas of what form of government is the best and what economic system is the best
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global south

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  • a term used to identify lower income countries on the north-south divide
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majority government

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  • occurs when no party has marjority seats in the leglisture
  • parliment can remove government with a vote of no confidence
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polotical violence

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  • purposly using force and power to achieve a polotical goal
    violence can be state aganist other states
    or states agnist civillains
    or the state actors againt states or civillans

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