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TPolitical Efficacy

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TThe Difference

TPolitical Institutions

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TRational-legal Authority

TPluralism

TDifference: Code Law and Common Law

TWhich of the AP6 directly elect both a president and representatives to a legislative body?

TWhich of the AP6 have a federalist political system?

TCentripetal and Centrifugal Forces

TParastatals

TDaily Double!

TWhich of the AP6 combines a plurality (first-past-the-post) electoral system with proportional representation?

TWhich of the AP6 use a plurality system only for electing representatives to the national legislature?

TA democratic deficit occurs when ostensibly democratic organizations or institutions in fact fall short of fulfilling what are believed to be the principles of democracy

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TPost Materialist Values

TDifference: Coinciding and Cross-Cutting Cleavages

TWhich of the following countries bases its legal and justice system on common law?UK, Russia, and China

TThe legitimacy of the most recent national elections has been seriously challenged in which of the AP6?

TDemocratic Deficit

TBonyads

TDifference: Consensual & Conflictual Political Culture

TWhich of the following countries formally divides its executive into two positions: the head of government and the head of state?UK, Russia, and China

TWhich of the AP6 have bicameral legislatures?

TFinal Jeopardy

TCorrelation: An apparent association between variables

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TCode Lawno tradition of judicial review or consistent application of the law. letter of the law is what matters. great in theory. no interpretation of judgefollow the code (the law)Most developing countries have this system

Common Lawone application determines the next application of the lawPrecedence

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TDifference: Coup d'tat and Revolution

TCoup d'tat: A forceful replacement of a regime or a government by a small elite group or groupsRevolution: A process by which a political regime is overthrown and replaced because of a broad popular support and participation in the process

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TFactors that separate groups within a societyMay be cultural, historic, geographic, economic, ethnic, racial, etc.The wider and deeper the cleavages, the less unified the societyCleavages which coincide with one another can reinforce each other: Religion and EthnicityCleavages that are cross-cutting weaken divisions between groups: Race and Labor

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TConsensual: accepts both the legitimacy of the regime and the solutions to major problemsConflictual: sharply divided, often on both legitimacy of the regime and the solutions to the major problems.Scoreboard

TRussia, China, Mexico, NigeriaScoreboard

TRussia, Nigeria, Iran, and MexicoScoreboard

TMexico(Russia stopped in 2007)Scoreboard

TUKScoreboard

TUK, Russia, and ChinaScoreboard

TRussia, Mexico, China, Nigeria, IranScoreboard

TRussia, Mexico, NigeriaScoreboard

TUK, Iran, NigeriaScoreboard

TMexico, Iran, and NigeriaScoreboard

TMexico, Russia, Nigeria, UK

TWhich of the following countries has a history of corporatism?UKRussiaChinaMexico

TUnited Kingdom & MexicoScoreboard

TName the current Presidents and Prime Ministers of all of the AP6. Answers must include title.

TMexico: Felipe Caldern (President)UK: David Cameron (PM)Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan (President) Russia: Vladimir Putin (PM) & Dmitry Medvedev (Pr)China: Hu Jintao (President)Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President)

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