Poly Sci Midterm Part II
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- weak state
- one unable to govern effectively, corrupt and penetrated by crime
- mainstream
- sharing the average or standard political culture
- judicial activism
- willingness of some judges to override legislatures by declaring certain statutes unconstitutional
- nation
- population with a historic sense of self
- brief
- written summary submitted by one side giving relevant facts, laws, and precedents
- Paradigm
- a model or way of doing research accepted by a discipline
- third world
- the developing areas: asia, africa, and latin america
- question hour
- time reserved in commons for opposition to challenge cabinet
- salience
- literally, that which jumps out; the importance of given issues in public opinion or the characteristics of public holding various opinions
- anecdotal
- recounting the views of a few respondents
- gross domestic product (GDP)
- sum total of goods and services produced in a given country in one year, often expressed per capita (GDPDC) by dividing population into GDP
- plurality
- the most, even if less than half
- francophone
- a french speaker
- welfarism
- economic system of major government redistribution of income to poorer citizens
- basic law
- germany's constitution since 1949
- decentralization
- shifting some administrative functions from central government to lower levels;less than devolution
- quasi
- nearly or almost
- Judicial Review
- ability of courts to overturn laws
- anticlericalism
- movement in catholic countries to get church out of politics
- constituency casework
- attention legislators pay to complaints of people who elect them
- majoritarian
- electoral system that gives over half of seats to one party
- backbencher
- ordinary member of parliament with no leadership of executive responsibilities
- constitutionalism
- degree to which government limits its powers
- anglophone
- english speaker
- economic issues
- questions relating to jobs, income, taxes , and welfare benefits
- civil society
- associations bigger than family but smaller than government
- aggregate
- thing or population considered as a whole
- bourgeouis
- adjective, originally french for city dweller; later and current, middle class in general
- subject
- felling among citizens that they should obey authority but not participate much in politics
- institutions
- the formal structures of the government... ex- us constitution
- positivism
- theory that society can be studied scientifically and incrementally improved with the knowledge gained
- behavioralism
- the empirical study of actual human behavior rather than abstract or speculative thories
- appeal
- taking a case to a higher court
- political efficacy
- feeling that one has at least a little political input.... opposite- feeling powerless
- regions
- portions of a country w/a sense of self and sometimes subcultural differences
- laissez-faire
- economic system of minimal government interference and supervision; capitalism... french for "let it be"
- political culture
- the psychology of the nation in regards to politics
- public opinion
- citizens reactions to current, specific issues and events
- Plaintiff
- the person who complains in a law case
- first-order civil divisions
- countries main territorial components, such as US states or spanish provinces
- marginalized
- pushed to the edge of a society and the economy, often said of the poor and of subcultures
- constitution
- basic rules that structure a government, usually written
- failed state
- one incapable of even minimal government, with essentially no national government
- majority
- more than half
- constitutional law
- that which grows out of a country's basic documents
- parochial
- narrow, having little or no interest in politics
- Common Law
- "Judge made law", old decisions built up over the centuries
- center- periphery tensions
- resentment by outlying regions of ruble by the nations' core area and/or capital
- skewed
- a distribution with its peak will to one side
- post behavioral
- synthesis of traditional, behavioral and other techniques in the study of politics
- strong state
- modern form of government, able to administer and tax entire nation
- thesis
- a main idea or claim, to be proved by evidence
- political competence
- knowing how to accomplish something politically
- protogovernment
- a beginning or trial-basis government
- integration
- merging subcultures into the mainstream culture
- unitary state
- centralization of power in a nations capital with little autonomy for subdivisions
- leftist
- favors social economic change to uplift poor
- burden shifting
- moving expenditures to other levels of government
- longitudinal
- studying how something changes over time
- statute
- an ordinary law passed by a legislature, not part of constitution
- anarchy
- the absence of government
- precedent
- legal decisions based on earlier decisions
- canon law
- laws of the roman catholic church, based on roman law
- code law
- laws arranged in books, originally updated roman law
- center-periphery tension
- resentment of outlying areas at rule by nation's capital
- minority
- subgroup distinct by language, ethnicity, race, or religion within the larger society
- devolution
- shifting some powers from central government to component units
- state
- government structures of a nation
- proportional representation
- elects representatives by party's percent of vote
- overt socialization
- deliberate government policy to teach culture
- consistency
- applying the same standards to all
- cohesive
- holding together
- civil law
- non criminal disputed among individuals
- non economic issues
- questions relating to patriotism, religion, race, sexuality, and personal choice
- turnout
- percent of eligible who vote in a given election
- socialism
- economic system of government ownership of industry, allegedly for good of whole society; opposite of capitalism
- new deal
- FDR's mild welfare programs during depression
- federalism
- balancing of power between nations capital and autonomous subdivisions, such as U.S states
- superstructure
- marx's term for everything that is built on top of the economy
- autonomias
- spanish regions w/devolved powers
- apartheid
- system of strict racial segregation formally practiced in South Africa
- prefect
- administrator of a french department
- judicial review
- ability of courts to decide it laws are constitutional; not present in all countries
- statism
- economic system of state ownership of major industries to enhance power and prestige of state; a pre-capitalist system
- mixed-member
- hybrid electoral system that uses both single-member districts and proportional representation
- unimodal
- a single, center-peaked distribution, a bell shaped curve
- roman law
- system based on codes of ancient rome
- rule of anticipated reactions
- politicians form policies based on how they think public will react
- autonomy
- the state leaving associations free and unsupervised
- ombudsman
- swedish for "agent"; lawyer employed by parliament to help citizens wronged by government
- regionalism
- feeling of differences sometimes found among populations of a nations regions
- diplomatic recognition
- the official announcement by one state that is prepared to have dealings with another state
- reciprocity
- mutual application of legal standards