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Austerity |
Government cutting expenditure to balance budget; economic belt tightening |
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Authoritan |
Democratic or dictator |
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Demagogue |
Manipulative politician who wins through impossible promises |
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Nation |
Cultural element of country; people psychologically bound to one another |
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State |
Institutional or governmental element of country |
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Sovereignty |
Last word in law given territory; boss of own turf |
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Constructed |
Deliberately created but widely accepted as natural |
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Securlization |
Dimisnishment of role of religion in govt |
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Reification |
Taking theory as reality |
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Causality |
Proving that one thing causes another |
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Feudalism |
Political system of power dispersed between king and nobles |
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Absolutism |
Royal dictatorship that bypasses nobles |
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Electoral franchise |
Right to vote |
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Parliament |
National assembly that considers and enacts laws |
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Cabinet |
Top executive of a govt |
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Pragmatic |
Without ideological consideration; based on practicality |
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Generalization |
Process of finding repeated examples and patterns |
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Theory |
Firm generalization supported by evidence |
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Discontinuity |
A break and new direction in the expected course of events |
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Fiefdom |
Land kings grants to nobles for support |
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Exchequer |
Britain's treasury minister |
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Mixed monarchy |
King balanced by nobles |
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Magna Carta |
1215 agreement to preserve rights of English nobles |
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Parliament |
Britain's legislature; house of commons |
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Commons |
Lower house of parliament; the elected important chamber |
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Lords |
Upper house of parliament; much less important than commons |
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Anticlerical |
Wants to get the Roman Catholic church out of politics |
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Common law |
System of judge made laws in England |
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Precedent |
Legal reasoning based on previous cases |
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Republic |
Country not head by monarch |
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Common wealth |
A republic, also organization of countries that were once British colonies |
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Republican |
Supporter of ending monarch |
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Prime minister |
Chief of govt In parliamentary system |
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Minister |
Head of major department of govt |
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Whigs |
Faction of parliament that became liberal party |
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Tories |
Faction of parliament that became conservative party |
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Reform acts |
Series of laws expanding the British electoral franchise |
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State of nature |
Humans before civilization |
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Civil society |
Humans after becoming civilized, modern usage |
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Conservatism |
Ideology of preserving existing institutions and usages |
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Statute |
Ordinary law usually for a specific problem |
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Mp |
Member of parliament |
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Junior Minster |
Mp with executive responsibilities below cabinet rank |
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Portfolio |
Ministers assigned ministry |
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Whip |
Parliamentary party leaders who makes sure members obey the party in voting |
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Back bencher |
Ordinary mp with no executive responsibly |
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Vote of no confidence |
Parliamentary vote to our prime minister |
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By election |
Special election for a vacant seat in parliament |
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Whitehall |
Main British govt offices |
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West minister |
Parliament building |
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Shadow cabinet |
Leaders of the opposition who aim to become the next cabinet |
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Nationalization |
Govt takeover of an industry |
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Two plus parry system |
Two big parties and several small ones |
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Single member district |
Sends one representative to parliament |
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Plurality |
Largest quantity even if less than a majority |
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Proportional representation pr |
Electoral system of multimember districts with seats awarded by percentage that party wins |
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Majortarian |
Electoral system that encourages dominance of one party in a parliament as in Britain and the U.S. |
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Meritocracy |
Promotion by brains and ability rather than heredity |
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Periphery |
Nations outlying regions |
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Vcenter-periphery sysytem |
Resentment of the outlying areas of rule by the nation's capital |
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Center peaked |
Distribution with post people in the middle |
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Center seeking |
Tendency of political parties toward moderate politics calculated to win the center |
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Malthusian |
Malthuss theory that population growth outstrips food supply |
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Home rule |
Giving a region some autonomy to rule itself |
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Party image |
Electorates perception of a given party |
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Hung parliament |
One in which no party has a majority of seats; requires coalition |
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Safe seat |
Constituency where voting has long favored a given party |
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Neoliberalism |
Revival of free market economics, exemplified by Thatcher |
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Trade union Congress |
British labor federation |
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Subsidy |
Govt economic aid to individual or business |
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Rule of anticipated reactions |
Freidrichs theory that politicians plan their lives so not to anger public |
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Pluralistic stagnation |
Theory that out of control interest groups produce policy logjams |
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Pluralism |
Autonomous interaction of of social groups with themselves and with govt |
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Monetarism |
Friedman's theory that the rate of growth of money supply governs much economic development |
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Devolution |
Central govt turns some power over to regions |
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Referendum |
Vote on an issue rather than for an office |
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Quasi-federal |
Part way federal |
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Estates general |
Old unused French parliament |
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Intendants |
French provisional administrators |
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Aristocrat |
Person of inherited noble rank |