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| Has political and administrative authority to make decisions and carry out policies to deal with country's problems |
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| 4 aspects of good governance |
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Rule of law-government cannot take actions not authorized
Property Rights
Regulatory regime
Macroeconomic policies
Absence of corruption |
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| ability to get people or groups to do what they otherwise would not do |
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| 4 aspects of government's power |
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develop institutions
carry out policies
sometimes unpopular
must be sufficiently strong |
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| oblige the government to control itself |
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single member district and first-past-the-post
proportional representation system |
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| division and limit of power between branches of government and central and local governments |
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| 3 basic things government needs to function |
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1. legislature, courts an beauracrats
2. established rules of acceptable behavior
3. political structure to implement laws |
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| organizational structures through which political power is exercised |
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| structure is generic while institution is specific |
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| carries out laws and administers functions |
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| creating, repealing, and amending laws |
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| enforces law (management and budget, security council, economic advisors, etc |
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| 7 gov decision in relation to business |
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infrastructure
financial assistance
R&D
Gov procurement
gov regulations
market stability
economic and foreign policy |
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| bicameral system with committee system |
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| subgovernment/iron triangle |
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| cozy, three sided relationship among government agencies, interest groups, and key members of congress in which all parties benefit |
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| group of political actors that is concerned with some aspect of public policy. Participants constantly move in and out and include anyone from political activists, to members of Congress, journatlists, interest groups, and the president |
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| UK Executive chosen by... |
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| prime minister who is slected by the queen who is advised by Parliament |
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| house of commons and house of lords |
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| very limited and can really only postpone laws and sugggest amendments |
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| Two part of german ballot |
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1. single member district where canidate with plurality of vote wins. Half of Bundestag is elected like this
2. select a party at the federal level and all second votes are aggregated nationwide. Half of Bundestag members are elected as party reps |
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| choose one canidate and one federal level parts |
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Germany-defines government policy and controls cabinet (14 ministers.
recommends appointment and dismissal of ministers |
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| German Cabinet Appointments |
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| make it difficult to build multi-party government |
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| German Federal Constitutional Court |
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reviews constitutionality of legislation,
limits decision making power of Bundestag
can request review of law |
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| integral par tof german political process and welcomed as necessary participants. (government actually contacts them when forming policies) |
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| cooperation between government and interest groups. Associations formed can direcly participate in policy process |
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| Top 2 German Associations |
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1. German Federation of Trade Unions (8 million members
2. Confederation of German EMployers' Association-80% of entrepeneurs |
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| Unique model of combining state and market-social market economy. This blurs distinction between public and private sector |
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| Japan government branches similar to... |
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| Japanese Legislative Power |
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| Diet-consisting of popularly elected House of Reps and House of Councilors |
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| Cabinet that is organized by prime minister, who is elected by Diet |
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| Supreme Court, 8 high courts, and district courts |
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| Japanese Economic success following WWII resulted from... |
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| engineering revival of basic industries (coal, steel, machinery) using trial and error |
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| Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry became Minstry of Economy trade and industry in 2001. Has a strong role |
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| Description of Japanese state |
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| politically weak but supported by strong work ethic and complex culture |
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| MITI and information gathering |
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| externalized costs and made it a pubulic good |
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| business group consistuing of a host of companies and banks linked through ownership or joint ventures |
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