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| the concept that public officials serve at the pleasure of the citizens. |
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| the legal right to exercise power. |
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| a hierarchical organization charged with carrying out the decisions of those who have political authority. |
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| all those organizations that provide opportunities for participation in society. |
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| widespread, general agreement. |
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| highest, most authoritative law. |
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| spread of representative government. |
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| delegation of decision making to lower (more local) levels of government. |
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| a regime in which public authority is shared by national and local governments. |
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| regime in which all or most authority is by one element of government. |
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| increasing world interdependence. |
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| policy to encourage domestic production of goods and services. |
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| methods by which citizens express their opinions and desires to the government. |
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| belief that a regime is proper or a government has the right to exercise public authority. |
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| a group of people who identify themselves as belonging together. |
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| Patron-Client Relationship |
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| relationship between powerful people seeking support and less powerful people seeking benefits. |
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| the largest number of votes received in an electoral contest. |
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| definitions of goals and actions taken to reach those goals. |
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| process by which people become participants in and leaders of political action. |
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| Proportional Representation |
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| system in which parties are represented in government to the degree they are successful in winning votes. |
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| a political system in which public officials are chosen by citizens. |
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| possessing the highest level of independent legal authority. |
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| all people and groups that have power to effect change. |
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| economic reform programs focusing on economic liberalization. |
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| a political regime in which the national government holds all meaningful authority. |
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