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- Premier
- (French prime minister) president appoints; names ministers of cabinet; Premier & cabinet answer to president, support president's programs & responsible to deputies of the Nat'l Assembly
- consolidated democracies
- countries with well-established democratic gov'ts
- PRI
- (Institutional Revolutionary Party) led Mexico for >60 yrs & made it more authoritarian than democratic; 1994 candidate made voting more fair & gave other parties a chance
- Nat'l Party Congress
- CCP's top governing body; 3000 members selected from different provinces meets 2 wks/yr; approve policies of party's leader
- Tiananmen Square
- Beijing, China; 1989 Chinese military killed 100's of pro-decomacry students that were protesting
- parliamentary gov't
- executive & legislative functions both reside in the elected assembly, or parliament
- presidential gov't
- a president heads the executive branch
- Japanese Diet
- parliament (legislature) of two houses: House of Concillors (upper) and House of Representatives (lower); "soul lawmaking organ of the state" & has power over the nation's fiscal policies
- CCP
- (Chinese Communist Party) - controls the nat'l gov't; "core of the leadership of the whole Chinese people"
- Solidarity
- trade union that emerged from underground resistance movement to sweep the first democratic elections since WW2; supported/strengthened by Pope John Paul II in fight against Poland's Communist gov't; leader Lech Walesa became first elected President
- Mao Zedong
- 1949 led Communist revolutionaries & led China for 30 yrs afte; established a toltarian gov't controlled strictly by the CCP that turned China into a socialist state (taking charge of industries and farms)
- governors' powers
- legislative: propose legislation, send legislative messages,present new porgrams as part of state budget, arrouse public opinion, veto power (item veto), call a special session of state legislature; judicial: appoint state judges, may have power of peole convicted of crime (right to grant pardons, shorten, sentences, waive fines, release prisoners on parole)
- PAN
- (Nat'l Action Party) 2000 candidate defeated PRI's & replaced as dominant party
- Nelson Mandela
- ANC leader in 1960's; formed military operation & went to jail (1962); become world famous freedom symbol; released (1990); first elected president (1994)
- Kyoto Protocol
- 1997; a int'l agreement; supplemented 1992 concention & focused on timetables for reducing greenhouse emissions to target levels among participating nations; US signed in 1998; 1999 was voted against thought would harm economy & KP didn't hold developing industrial nations accountable
- Politburo
- party's Political Burea; 20 top party leaders; standing committee made of CCP's top 7 leaders; makes key political, economical & militry decisions
- prime minister
- the leader of the executive branch of a parliamentary gov't
- ANC
- (African Nat'l Congress) black nationalists group; wanted to end apartheid (segregation)
- Mexico
- transition into democracy; PAN dominant in Mexican Congress but isn't complete majority; Vicente Fox current leader & will have to work with other parties in Congress to pass legislation
- EU
- (European Union) intergovernmental organization; created in 1957; 6 Western European nations cooperate politically & economically
- Poland
- transition into democracy; joined EU in 2004; political party is the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) holds majority of seats in lower house of Parliament; 2001 economy problems > voters voted out Solidarity members > benefited Communist