The Concept of Country

Question 1

Absolutism

Answer 1

Royal dictatorship that bypasses nobles

Question 2

Authoritarian

Answer 2

Nondemocratic or dictatorial politics

Question 3

Bound

Answer 3

Bordering countries

Question 4

Causality

Answer 4

Proving that one thing causes another

Question 5

Coalition

Answer 5

Multiparty alliance to form government

Question 6

Constitution

Answer 6

Written organization of a country’s institutions

Question 7

Constructed

Answer 7

Deliberately created but widely accepted

Question 8

Core

Answer 8

Region where the state originated

Question 9

Cynical

Answer 9

Untrusting; belief that political system is wrong or corrupt

Question 10

Democracy

Answer 10

Political system of mass participation, competitive elections, and human and civil rights.

Question 11

Electoral franchise

Answer 11

Right to vote

Question 12

Elites

Answer 12

Those few persons with great influence

Question 13

Ethnicity

Answer 13

Cultural characteristics differentiating one group from another

Question 14

Euro

Answer 14

Currency of most of West Europe (but not Britain) since 2002

Question 15

European Union

Answer 15

Quasi-federation of most European states; began in 1957 as Common Market

Question 16

Failed state

Answer 16

One incapable of exercising even minimal governing power

Question 17

Feudalism

Answer 17

Political system of power dispersed and balanced between king and nobles

Question 18

GDP

Answer 18

Gross Domestics Product, sum total of goods and services produced in country in one year

Question 19

Generalization

Answer 19

Finding repeated examples and patterns

Question 20

Han

Answer 20

Original and main people of China

Question 21

Ideology

Answer 21

Belief system to improve society

Question 22

Institution

Answer 22

Established rules and relationships of power

Question 23

Interest group

Answer 23

Association aimed at getting favorable policies

Question 24

Legitimacy

Answer 24

Mass perception that regime’s rule is rightful

Question 25

Mass

Answer 25

Most people, those without influence

Question 26

Multinational

Answer 26

Country composed of several peoples with distinct national feelings.

Question 27

Nation

Answer 27

Cultural, element of country; people psychologically bound to one another

Question 28

Parliament

Answer 28

National assembly that considers and enacts laws

Question 29

Particularism

Answer 29

Region’s sense of its difference

Question 30

Per capita

Answer 30

GDP divided by population, giving approximate level of well-being

Question 31

Political culture

Answer 31

Values and attitudes of citizens on politics and society

Question 32

Political geography

Answer 32

How territory and politics influence each other

Question 33

Power

Answer 33

Ability of A to get B to do what A wants

Question 34

Pragmatic

Answer 34

Without ideological considerations, based on practicality

Question 35

President

Answer 35

Elected Head of State

Question 36

Prime minister

Answer 36

Chief of government in parliamentary systems

Question 37

Quarrels

Answer 37

As used here, important, long-term political issues

Question 38

Redistribution

Answer 38

Taxing better off to help worse off

Question 39

Reification

Answer 39

Taking a theory as reality

Question 40

Russification

Answer 40

Making non-Russian Nationalities learn Russian

Question 41

Secularization

Answer 41

Diminishing role of religion in government and society

Question 42

Sovereignty

Answer 42

Last word in law in given territory; boss on your own turf

Question 43

State

Answer 43

Institutional or governmental element of country

Question 44

Symbol

Answer 44

Political artifact that stirs mass emotions

Question 45

Theory

Answer 45

Firm generalization supported by evidence