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What is ethnic identity?

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A set of values that bind people through a common culture

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True or false: most countries are ethnically homogeneous

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False

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In Bosnia, what are the main ethnic groups?

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Croats, Serbs, and Muslims

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What divides Bosnia?

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Religion; Croats are catholic, Serbs are Eastern orthodox, Muslims practice Islam

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What are the two main religions in Germany?

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Catholic and Protestant

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What is the term for a set of institutions that bind people together through common political aspirations?

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National Identity

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What language is spoken in Quebec?

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French

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What is nationalism?

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A pride in one’s people and the belief that they have their own sovereign political destiny

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In some places, citizenship implies what two things?

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  • duty to serve in military

- duty to pay taxes

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Political attitudes involve what four categories?

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Radical, Liberal, Conservative, Reactionary

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Radicals believe what?

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The current system is broken and must be completely thrown out in favor of a new order

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Unlike radicals, liberals believe in what?

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Evolutionary change

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Conservatives question what?

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Whether significant change in existing institutions is necessary or whether it is even good

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Reactionaries seek to return to what?

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An envisioned, past ideal that never really existed

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What is the term for sets of political values held by individuals about the primary goals of politics?

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Political ideologies

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What ideology favors a limited state role in society and economic activity?

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Liberalism

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What ideology emphasizes limited personal freedom and a strong state in order to achieve social equality?

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Communism

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What ideology accepts a strong role for private ownership and market forces to maintain economic equality?

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Social Democracy

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What ideology is hostile to the idea of individual freedom and rejects the notion of equality?

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Fascism

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What ideology views the state as a threat to freedom and equality?

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Anarchism

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Anarchist ideas played a role when?

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During the 1917 Russian revolution

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Political economy is the study of what?

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  • How politics and economics relate

- how economic institutions influence politics

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What involves the interactions between the forces of supply and demand, along with how goods and services were exchanged?

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Markets

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Property refers to what?

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the ownership of goods and services

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What are public goods?
Goods provided by the state for all citizens
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In the US, healthcare is not what?
A public good
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In Canada, healthcare is a public good in the form of what?
Publicly owned hospitals and universal benefits
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In Saudi Arabia and Iran, what is a public good?
Oil
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The major source to pay for public expenditures is what?
Taxation
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What does the central bank control?
The flow of money and interest rates
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What is hyperinflation?
Inflation that is more than 50% a month for more than two months in a row
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In 2008, which country faced an inflation rate between 100,000 and 1 million percent?
Zimbabwe
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In most economies, markets are longer only what?
Local
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What are tariffs?
Taxes on imported goods
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What are quotas?
A limit on the quantity of goods coming into the country
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What is the term for tools that may create health and other restrictions to make it difficult to sell foreign goods in certain places?
non tariff regulatory barriers
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In Canada, what percent of all music must be of Canadian origin?
35%
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In Canada, what percent of TV programs must be of Canadian origin?
60%
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Liberalism places a strong emphasis on what economic philosophy?
Laissez-Faire
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Social democracy wants to increase the availability of what?
Public Goods
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What is the Communist belief about capitalism?
It cannot serve the needs of a society
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The building of empires was an extension of what?
Mercantilism
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What does mercantilism highlight?
The needs of the state by generating wealth to use for national power
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What is an example of mercantilism?
The British colonies in North America
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What is Gross Domestic Product?
Total market value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year
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What is the Purchasing Power Parity?
The estimate of the buying power of income in each country by comparing similar costs using US prices as a benchmark
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The approach used to measure the distribution of wealth and the amount of inequality in a society is called what?
The Gini Index
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A perfect score in the Gini ranking system is what?
Zero
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What countries have the lowest Gini scores?
Social Democratic Countries
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The Human Development Index was developed by who?
The UN Development Program
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HDI considers what?
adult literacy, life expectancy, educational enrollment, and GDP
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Nations with the highest levels of education and life expectancy also have the highest what?
National incomes
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The Greek word demos means what?
people
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The Greek word Kratia means what?
power
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The Roman empire laid out the concept of what?
Republicanism
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Roman Republicanism emphasizes what?
- the separation of powers | - the representation of the public through elected officials
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The Greeks established the idea of what?
Popular Sovereignty
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Legislative bodies, like the senate, derive from where?
Rome
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Which King was forced to sign the Magna Carta?
King John
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The most prominent office in any country is the what?
Executive
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The role of the executive that symbolizes and represents the people nationally and internationally is called what?
Head of State
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The role of the executive to run the state and formulate and execute policy is called what?
Head of Government
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What is a country that combines the two roles of the executive?
USA
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What are the 2 forms of legislature?
Unicameral and Bicameral
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Until 1913, how were senators elected?
By state legislators
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Many liberal democracies have some form of what to ensure legislation is compatible with the constitution?
Constitutional Court
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Power of Constitutional Courts may be what?
Concrete, Abstract, or Both
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What is concrete review?
when the court decides whether an act is constitutional only when the issue has been raised by a court case
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What is abstract review?
when the court decides whether an act is constitutional without a court case or before the law has been exercised
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What are the two basic elements of parliamentary systems?
- Prime minister | - legislature
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In parliamentary systems, prime ministers can be removed from office through what?
Vote of no confidence
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Usually, positions of head of state and head of government are combined in what?
A presidency
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What is a semi-presidential system?
A hybrid between parliamentary and presidential system
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In a semi-presidential system, power is divided between who?
The Prime Minister and President
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What is the best example of a semi-presidential system?
France
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Political parties are what?
organizations that bring together people into a single group that can help govern
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Political parties create what?
The means by which politicians can be held accountable
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Political parties serve as what?
political symbols of shorthand ideas
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What is the dominant party in Sweden?
Social Democratic Party
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What is the dominant party in Japan?
Liberal Democratic Party
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What country has experienced a lot of instability among a handful of parties and shifts between them?
Italy
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In what countries is voting compulsory?
Australia, Belgium, Brazil
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All democracies break up populations into what?
Boundaries and Constituencies
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Norway is broken up into how many counties?
19
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How many constituencies are in Nigeria?
360
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Liberal democracies have how many forms of electoral systems?
2
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What do plurality and majority systems create?
Single-member districts
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Plurality-based, single member district systems are called what?
First Past the Post
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The UK, Canada, Nigeria, India, and the USA all have what kind of systems?
First Past the Post
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What country has a system where candidates go round by round until a runoff?
France
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In a alternative preferential system (instant runoff) who gets eliminated first?
The candidate with the lowest number of first place votes
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What countries use the preferential system?
Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea
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In proportional representation, voters cast votes for what rather than what?
Party rather than candidate
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In proportional representation, the percentage of votes a party receives determines what?
The number of seats they receive in that district
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Countries using proportional representation rely heavily on what?
Multi-member districts
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What percentage do parties in Germany need to gain seats?
5%
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What percentage do parties in Turkey need to gain seats?
10%
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What electoral system gives voters two votes, one for party and one for a candidate?
Mixed electoral system
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Countries allowing a public vote on a particular issue is called a what?
Referendum
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Countries allowing citizens to collect signatures to put a question to national vote is called what?
Initiative
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Autocracy, oligarchy, dictatorship, tyranny, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism are all names for what?
Non-democratic regimes
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Totalitarianism consists of what two factors?
- highly centralized state | - well defined ideology
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Non-democratic regimes maintain control through what?
- Coercion - Surveillance - co-optation
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What is co-optation?
Individuals from outside an organization are brought in with incentives that make them dependent
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What is corporatism?
Enabling a limited number of organizations to represent the public, which are mandated by the state
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What is clientism?
When the regime co-opts members of the public by providing specific benefits to a single person in exchange for public support
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Clientism involves what?
individual patronage
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What is rent-seeking?
When political leaders rent out parts of the state to their supporters
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At its worst, a non-democratic regime may turn into what?
A kleptocracy
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What is a kleptocracy ruled by?
Theft; those in power drain the state of resources
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Constant praising of the leadership is enforced by what?
Personality cults
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Personality cults are promoted through the what?
- News reports - Public rallies - Films and other imagery

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