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The ability to get people or groups to do what they otherwise would not do through coercion, persuasion, or leadership.
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All individuals and institutions that exert power and make public policy through direct action or political participation whether they are in the government or not.
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The leadership in power or hold authority at a particular moment in as state- roughly akin to an American administration.
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The primarily psychological sense of identification with a people becase of culture, geography, or linguistic ties.
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The people and agencies which implement or execute government policy (from the head of government to the lowest bureaucrat).
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The political structure that passes law.
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The political structure (usually courts) that adjudicates cases and applies the law.
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The power of the courts to modify or nullify the actions of the legislatures and executive.
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The system of governement where power is divided into several structures- executive, legislative, and judicial- with the ability to check the power of the other structures.
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The institution and practices that endure from government to government
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The set of beliefs or convictions that (1) identify problems in a political culture, (2) explain why they exist, and (3) prescribe a cure for the problems.
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Independent legal authority over a population in a particular place.
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A system that operates according to a predictable, known, and visible set of laws and precedures.
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The process through which groups of people govern themselves or are governed through authority.
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The belief the authority is properly ruling.
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An international organization that a state may surrender sovereignty to in order to pursue a broader regional or global purpose.
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Regimes in which subnational units have little or no power.
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Constitutional practice in which sub national units are granted considerable power.
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The collection of history, values, beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, traditions, and symbols that define and influence political behavior with a state.
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The institutions and methods of developing and reinforcing significant public beliefs, attitudes, and practices.
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The decisions made by a state that define what it will do.
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An organized group of people with their primary purpose of electing its members, promoting a particular ideology, or advancing a particular issue.
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Power by the people or as John Locke once said a government that has the consent of the people.
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The spread of representative government to more countries and process of making governments more representative.
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The increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of people, cultures, economies, and nation state facilitated by technology, trade, and cultural diffusion.
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A process by which a political regime is overthrown and replaced because of broad popular support and fundamental economic, social, or political changes are made.
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