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| the ability of a state to carry out actions or policies within a terriotry independently from external or internal rivals |
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| An organization or activity that is self-perpetuating valued for its own sake |
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| the struggle in any group for power that will give one or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group |
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| the study and comparison of domestic politics across countries |
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| the means by which social scientists make comparisons across cases |
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| study through statistical data from many cases |
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| Study through an in depth investigation of a limited number of cases |
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| the study of how to govern |
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| a theory asserting that as societies developed, they would take on a set of common characteristics, including democracy and capitalism |
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| a movement in political science in the 1950s and 1960s to develop general theories about individual political behavior that could be applied across all countries |
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| the ability of an individual to act independently, without fear of restriction or punishment by the state or other individuals or groups in society |
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| a shared material standard of individuals within a community, society, or country |
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the organization that maintains a monopoly of legitimate force over a given territory a set of political institutions to generate policy regarding freedom and equality |
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| the fundamental rules and norms of politics |
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| the leadership or elite in charge of running the state |
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| term used to refer to state, government, regime, and the people who live within that political system |
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| a value whereby an institution is accepted by the public as right and proper, thus giving it authority and power |
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| legitimacy that accepts aspects of politics because they have been institutionalized over a long period of time |
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| legitimacy built on the force of ideas embodied by an individual leader |
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| rational-legal legitimacy |
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| legitimacy based on a system of laws and procedures that are highly institutionalized |
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| a system in which significant state powers, such as taxation, lawmaking, and security, are devoted to regional or local bodies |
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| a state in which most political power exists at the national level, with limited local authority |
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| a state that is able to fulfill basic tasks, such as defending terriotry, making and enforcing rules, collecting taxes, and managing the economy |
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| a state that has difficulty fulfilling basic tasks |
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| a state so weak that its political structures collapse, leading to anarchy and violence |
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| the ability of the state to wield power to carry out basic tasks |
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| the ability of the state to wield its power independently of the public |
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| complex human organization, a collection of people bound by shared institutions that define how human relations should be conducted |
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| specific attributes and societal institutions that make one group of people culturally different from others |
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| a sense of belonging to a nation and a belief in its political asparations |
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| group of people bound together by a common set of political aspirations, the most important which is self-government |
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| pride in one's people and the belief that they have a unique political destiny |
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| an individuals relationship to the state, wherein citizens swear alliegance to that state and the state in return is obligated to provide rights to those citizens |
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| a state encompassing one dominant nation that it claims to embody and represent |
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| a conflict in which different ethnic groups struggle to achieve certain political or economic goals at each other's expense |
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| a conflict in which one or more groups within a country develop clear aspirations for political independence, clashing with others as a result |
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| description of ones views regarding the speed and the methods with which political changes should take place in a given society |
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| a political attitude that favors dramatic, often revolutionary changes |
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| political attitude that favors evolutionary transformation |
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| a political attitude that is skeptical of change and supports the current order |
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| Someone who seeks to restore the institutions of a real or imagined earlier order |
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| the basic values held by an individual about the fundamental goals of politics or the ideal balanceof fredom and equality |
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| a political ideology that favors a limited state role in society and the economy, and places a high priority on individual political and economical freedom |
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| a political system that promotes participation, competition, adn liberty and emphasizes individual freedom and civil rights |
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| political ideology/system where all wealth and property are shared so as to eliminate exploitation, oppression, and ultimately the need to political institutions such as the state |
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| political system/ideology where freedom and equality are balanced through the state's management of the economy and the provision of social expenditures |
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| political ideology that asserts the superiority and inferiority of different groups of people and stresses a low degree of both freedom and equality in order to achieve a powerful state |
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| political ideology that stresses the elimination of the state and private property as a way to achieve both freedom and equality for all |
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| a view of religion as absolute and inerrant that should be legally enforced by making faith the sovereign authority |
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| a nondemocratic form of rule where religion is the foundation for the regime |
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| basic institutions that define society |
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| the basic norms for political activity in a society |
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| the study of the interaction between states and markets |
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| the interaction between the forces of supply and demand that allocates resources |
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| goods or services that are owned by an individual or group, privately or publicly |
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| goods, provided or secured by the state, available to society and which no private person or organization can own |
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| state provisions of public benefits, such as education, health care, and transportation |
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| the state institution that controls how much money is flowing through the economy, as well as how much it costs to borrow money in that economy |
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| an outstripping of supply by demand, resulting in an increase int he general price level of goods and services and the resulting loss of value in a country;s currency |
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| inflation of more than 50 percent a month for more than two months in a row |
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| a rule or order that sets the boundaries of a given procedure |
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| a single prducer that is able to dominate the market for a good or service without effective competition |
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| a small number of producers that, although each individually is unable to dominate a market, collaborate to do so together |
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| the ability of one country to produce a particular good or service more efficiently relative to other countries efficiency in producing the same good or service |
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| a nontariff barrier that limits the quantity of a good that may be imported into a country |
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| policies and regulations used to limit imports through methods other than taxation |
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| political economic systems |
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| the relationship between political and economic institutions in a particular country and the policies and outcomes they create |
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| a system of production based on private property and free markets |
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| the principle that the economy should be allowed to do what it wishes; a liberal system of minimal state interference in the economy |
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| a system of social democratic policy making in which a limited number of organizations representing business and labor work with the state to set economic policy |
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| a political-economic system in which national economic power is paramount and the domestic economy is viewed as an instrument that exists primarily to serve the needs of the state |
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| industry partially owned by the state |
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| the totawl market value of goods and services produced within a country over one year |
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| a statistical tool that attempts to estimate the buying power of income across different countries by using prices in the US as a benchmark |
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| the total market value of all goods and services produced by the residents of a country, including income from abroad |
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| a mathematical formula that measures the amount of economic inequality in a society |
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| a statistical tool that attempts to evalutate the overall wealth, health, and knowledge of a country's people |
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| changes consistent with liberalism that aim to limit the power of the state and increase the power of the market and private property in an economy |
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