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43 Cards in this Set
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Cold War
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Rivalry between the superpowers from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Communism
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A theory developed by Marx and Engels that was adapted and used in such countries as China and the former Soviet Union
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Constitution
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A basic political document that lays out the institutions and procedures a country follows
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Crisis
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A critical turning point
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Decision Making
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The way governments (or other bodies) make policies.
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Demand
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Inputs through which people and interest groups put pressure on the state for change.
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Democratization
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The process of developing democratic states.
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Environment
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In systems theory, everything lying outside the political system.
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Feedback
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How events today are communicated to people later on and shape what people do later on.
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Globalization
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Popular term used to describe how international economic, social, and technological forces are affecting events inside individual countries.
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Government
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Either a generic term to describe the formal part of the state or the administration of the day.
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Imperialism
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The policy of colonizing other countries - literally, establishing empires.
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Industrialized democracy
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The richest countries with advance economies and liberal states.
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Input
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Support or demand from people to the state.
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Interest Group
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An organization formed to work for the views of a relatively narrow group of people, such as a trade union or business association.
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International Political Economy (IPE)
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The network of economic activity that transcends national boundaries.
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Less Developed Countries (LDC)
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Poor countries, with low rates of literacy and many problems with the government and coups.
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Nation
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As used by political scientists, primarily a psychological term to describe attachment or identity, rather than a geopolitical unit such as the state.
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Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs)
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The handful of countries, such as South Korea, that have developed a strong industrial base and grown faster than most of the Third World.
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Output
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Public policy in systems theory.
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Political Culture
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Basic values and assumptions that people have toward authority, the political system, and other overarching themes in political life.
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Political Party
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Organization that contests elections or otherwise contends for power.
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Politics
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The process through which a community, state, or organization organizes and governs itself.
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Power
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As conventionally defined, the ability to get someone to do something he or she otherwise would not do.
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Public Policy
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The decisions made by a state that define what it will do.
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Regime
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The institutions and practices that endure from government to government, such as the constitutional order in a democracy.
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State
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All individuals and institutions that make public policy, whether they are in the government or not.
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Strong State
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One with the capacity and the political will to make and implement effective public policy.
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Support
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In systems analysis, popular input that tends to endorse the current leadership and its policies.
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Systems Theory
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A model for understanding political life.
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Third World
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Informal term for the poorest countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Totalitarianism
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Regime in which the state has all but total power.
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Weak State
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One without the capacity and the political will to make and implement effective public policy.
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Bureaucracy
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Part of the government composed of technical experts and others who remain from administration to administration.
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Cabinet Responsibility
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Principle that requires a prime minister and government to retain the support of a parliamentary majority.
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Catch-All
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Term devised in the 1960s to describe a new type of political party that plays down ideology in favor of slogans, telegenic candidates, and the like.
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Civic Culture
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Culture characterized by trust, legitimacy, and limited involvement, which some theorists believe is most conducive to democracy.
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Civil Society
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The web of membership in social and political groups that some analysts believe is needed to sustain democracy.
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Coalition
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a combination or alliance, especially a temporary one between persons, factions, states, etc.
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Democracy
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Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
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Electoral System
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Mechanisms through which votes are cast and tallied, and seats in the legislature are allotted.
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Facism
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Right-wing regimes, often drawing on racist philosophies in countries such as Germany and Japan between the two world wars.
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Integrated Elite
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In japan, France, and Germany, refers to cooperation among government, business and other interest groups.
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