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APCP Key Concepts
Quiz 1
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Political Studies
12th Grade
01/29/2009

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 Power

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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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State

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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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Government

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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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Nation

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The primarily psychological sense of identification with a people becase of culture, geography, or linguistic ties.

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Executive

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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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Legislative

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The political structure that passes law.

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Judicial

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The political structure (usually courts) that adjudicates cases and applies the law.

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Judicial review

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The power of the courts to modify or nullify the actions of the legislatures and executive.

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Seperaration of Powers

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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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Regime

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The institution and practices that endure from government to government

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Ideology

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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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Sovereignty

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 Independent legal authority over a population in a particular place.

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Rule of law

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A system that operates according to a predictable, known, and visible set of laws and precedures.

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Politics

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The process through which groups of people govern themselves or are governed through authority.

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Legitimacy

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The belief the authority is properly ruling.

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Supranational Organization

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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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State-building concerns

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Unitary state

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Regimes in which subnational units have little or no power.

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Federal state

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Constitutional practice in which sub national units are granted considerable power.

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Political culture

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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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Political socialization

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The institutions and methods of developing and reinforcing significant public beliefs, attitudes, and practices.

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Public policy

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The decisions made by a state that define what it will do.

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 Political party

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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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Democracy

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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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Democratization

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The spread of representative government to more countries and process of making governments more representative.

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Globalization

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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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Revolution

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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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