Comparative Politics Exam 1

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Austerity

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Government cutting expenditure to balance budget; economic belt tightening

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Authoritan

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Democratic or dictator

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Demagogue

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Manipulative politician who wins through impossible promises

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Nation

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Cultural element of country; people psychologically bound to one another

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State

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Institutional or governmental element of country

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Sovereignty

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Last word in law given territory; boss of own turf

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Constructed

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Deliberately created but widely accepted as natural

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Securlization

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Dimisnishment of role of religion in govt

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Reification

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Taking theory as reality

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Causality

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Proving that one thing causes another

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Feudalism

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Political system of power dispersed between king and nobles

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Absolutism

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Royal dictatorship that bypasses nobles

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Electoral franchise

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Right to vote

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Parliament

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National assembly that considers and enacts laws

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Cabinet

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Top executive of a govt

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Pragmatic

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Without ideological consideration; based on practicality

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Generalization

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Process of finding repeated examples and patterns

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Theory

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Firm generalization supported by evidence

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Discontinuity

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A break and new direction in the expected course of events

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Fiefdom

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Land kings grants to nobles for support

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Exchequer

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Britain's treasury minister

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Mixed monarchy

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King balanced by nobles

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Magna Carta

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1215 agreement to preserve rights of English nobles

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Parliament

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Britain's legislature; house of commons

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Commons

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Lower house of parliament; the elected important chamber

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Lords

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Upper house of parliament; much less important than commons

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Anticlerical

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Wants to get the Roman Catholic church out of politics

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Common law

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System of judge made laws in England

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Precedent

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Legal reasoning based on previous cases

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Republic

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Country not head by monarch

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Common wealth

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A republic, also organization of countries that were once British colonies

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Republican

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Supporter of ending monarch

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Prime minister

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Chief of govt In parliamentary system

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Minister

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Head of major department of govt

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Whigs

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Faction of parliament that became liberal party

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Tories

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Faction of parliament that became conservative party

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Reform acts

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Series of laws expanding the British electoral franchise

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State of nature

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Humans before civilization

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Civil society

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Humans after becoming civilized, modern usage

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Conservatism

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Ideology of preserving existing institutions and usages

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Statute

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Ordinary law usually for a specific problem

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Mp

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Member of parliament

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Junior Minster

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Mp with executive responsibilities below cabinet rank

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Portfolio

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Ministers assigned ministry

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Whip

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Parliamentary party leaders who makes sure members obey the party in voting

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Back bencher

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Ordinary mp with no executive responsibly

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Vote of no confidence

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Parliamentary vote to our prime minister

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By election

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Special election for a vacant seat in parliament

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Whitehall

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Main British govt offices

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West minister

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Parliament building

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Shadow cabinet

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Leaders of the opposition who aim to become the next cabinet

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Nationalization

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Govt takeover of an industry

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Two plus parry system

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Two big parties and several small ones

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Single member district

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Sends one representative to parliament

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Plurality

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Largest quantity even if less than a majority

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Proportional representation pr

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Electoral system of multimember districts with seats awarded by percentage that party wins

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Majortarian

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Electoral system that encourages dominance of one party in a parliament as in Britain and the U.S.

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Meritocracy

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Promotion by brains and ability rather than heredity

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Periphery

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Nations outlying regions

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Vcenter-periphery sysytem

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Resentment of the outlying areas of rule by the nation's capital

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Center peaked

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Distribution with post people in the middle

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Center seeking

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Tendency of political parties toward moderate politics calculated to win the center

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Malthusian

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Malthuss theory that population growth outstrips food supply

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Home rule

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Giving a region some autonomy to rule itself

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Party image

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Electorates perception of a given party

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Hung parliament

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One in which no party has a majority of seats; requires coalition

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Safe seat

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Constituency where voting has long favored a given party

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Neoliberalism

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Revival of free market economics, exemplified by Thatcher

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Trade union Congress

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British labor federation

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Subsidy

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Govt economic aid to individual or business

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Rule of anticipated reactions

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Freidrichs theory that politicians plan their lives so not to anger public

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Pluralistic stagnation

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Theory that out of control interest groups produce policy logjams

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Pluralism

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Autonomous interaction of of social groups with themselves and with govt

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Monetarism

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Friedman's theory that the rate of growth of money supply governs much economic development

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Devolution

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Central govt turns some power over to regions

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Referendum

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Vote on an issue rather than for an office

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Quasi-federal

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Part way federal

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Estates general

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Old unused French parliament

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Intendants

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French provisional administrators

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Aristocrat

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Person of inherited noble rank