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| An organization that is controlled partly by the government and partly by the private sector. |
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| what the government has the right to do |
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| the belief that events occur in predictable ways and that one event leads to another |
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| A legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized |
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| a social order which depends on relations of patronage and favors |
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| the act of compelling by force of authority |
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| Interdependence of variable quantities. |
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| The transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, esp. by central government to local or regional administration |
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| extending goods and services (as well as the costs of these goods and services) to members of an organization or state |
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| Less government regulation of the economy and greater participation of private entities (free markets, reducing state control over markets, pricing, employment, property, distribution) |
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| a voting system for making democratic choices |
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| The state of being equal in rights, status, and opportunities |
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| policies which deal with removing natural resources from the ground |
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| regional and central authorities have constitutional status and have certain responsibilities plus concurrent powers they share |
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| The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint |
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| the executive and legislative branches are intermingled; a feature of parliamentary democracies |
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| A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force |
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| The notion that a government should do what it can to reduce its dependency on foreign nations by developing its own products internally |
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| the process of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one |
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| A group of persons working on behalf of or strongly supporting a particular cause, such as an item of legislation, an industry, or a special segment of society. |
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| International organization |
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| an organization made up of sovereign states that has certain membership, scope, and presence, and can be divided into IGOs and INGOs. |
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| The process of changing something from private ownership to government ownership. |
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| An elections sytem where the winner is whoever has the most votes; a majority is not required |
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| what defines a person's political views, ideology, and levels of political participation |
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| the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process |
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| An organized system of political beliefs, values, and ideas |
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| How the public involves itself in the government's actions and policies. |
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| a system of politics and the government; compared to the economic system, legal system, etc. |
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| ideas expressing the attitude of social groups as a whole, toward the needs of other social groups and of the whole of that society |
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| a manufacturing-based economy that moves on to a structure of society based on the provision of information, innovation, finance, and services. |
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| transformation of individual values, switching from economic and physical security, to a new set of values, which instead emphasized autonomy and self expression |
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| a method of thought that challenges the traditional practices and intellectual pillars of western civilization |
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| What the government has the power to do |
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| The process of putting the economy into the private hands of the public; less government ownership |
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| generates non-numerical data. It focuses on gathering of mainly verbal data rather than measurements |
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| research generates numerical data or information that can be converted into numbers |
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| mandates that minimize economic disparity |
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| mandates that limit the discretion of individuals and agencies, or otherwise compel certain types of behavior |
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| a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people. |
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| a political movement that seeks to build an alternative socialist economy gradually through the institutions of liberal democracy. |
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| A system of government where the government has higher taxes and more control over the people, but also provides them with more social services |
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| programs created by the IMF and World Bank to guide countries in debt into fixing their monetary problems. |
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| Supranational organization |
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| An organization that involves several different nations |
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| A system of government where the power rests with one central authority |
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