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| A sovereignty held by one government |
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| A soverignty held by multiple governments |
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Absolute law making authority
Ability to control a nation, province, and people...etc |
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| Political cultures Definition |
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| A shared set of beliefs in regards to how power and authority should be used in a society |
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| Institutions of government and principle that inform those institutions |
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| Rsponsible government Definition |
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| Legislative and executive power must be organized in accordance to a set of rules |
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| Rsponsible government Definition |
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| Legislative and executive power must be organized in accordance to a set of rules |
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| the man who was sent to canada to replace the original seperation of powers with responsible government |
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| Electoral system Definition |
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| The ability for people to pick from a list of options for the people they wish to run. |
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| Harm principle Definition |
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| The principle that states people are free to do as they wish aslong as it dones not harm anyother human being in the process |
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| Manufactured majority Definition |
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| A party wins less then 50% of the votes but wins 50% or more of the seats |
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| Social cleavage Definition |
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| long standing social division that receives organizational expression |
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| When old social cleavages lose their capacity to structure politics |
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| when old social cleavages are replaced by new social cleavages |
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| Political parties Definition |
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| a publicly organized group of people, set of common public ideas,try to win public office to translate those ideas into policies |
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| a principle which asserts that a plurality rule election system tends to favor a two-party system. So 2 dominant parties. |
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| A vote that does not go to actually elected a potential candidate |
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| Stratigeic voting Definition |
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| voting for 2nd choice to prevent worse outcomes |
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| Disportionality Definition |
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| when a party's seat share not equal to its vote share |
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| Primus Inter Pares Definition |
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| set of rules setablishint the structure and fundamental principles of a political regime |
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| Un-written constitution Definition |
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| means nor containesd in a single document |
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| a long standing political practice or custom based on implicit agreement and precedent that is enforced in a political arena |
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| Charter of rights Definition |
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| Protection from arbitrary exercise of government power, also inforced balance of minorities and majoritites |
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| The area of government that is incharge of law and the interpretation of it |
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| judges to be free form prejudice for or against parties appearing before them |
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| A system of territotirally shared sovereignty |
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| A system of goerventment on a written document that establishes the rules and principle of an autonomous political entity |
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| Fiscal federalism Definition |
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| study of how competencies (expenditure side) and fiscal instruments (revenue side) are allocated across different (vertical) layers of the administration. |
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| executive federalism Definition |
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| Executive federalism is a form of federalism that is dominated by the Executive branches (President and Governors). The role of Congress and the courts are downplayed in this type of federalism. |
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| asymmetric federalism Definition |
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| found in a federation in which different constituent states possess different powers: one or more of the states has considerably more autonomy than the other substates, although they have the same constitutional status. |
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