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| citizens' response to percieved deprivation, generally through discontent and anger, but not necessarily (think gandhi). |
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| to what extent a government is effective at disciplining it's people. |
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| the social and structural conditions in a country which might promote the outbreak and persistence of strife. Think twitter. |
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| the extent to which societal structures beyond the primary level are broad in scope, command substantial resources and/or personnel, and are stable and persisting. The provide alternate ways for a citizen to gain satisfaction and they provide citizens with outlets to channel their dissatisfactions and anger in a nonviolent manner. |
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| risks which could effect the whole spectrum of firms and businesses operating in a host country. |
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| risks of a specific action against a specific company by a group or government. |
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| This stands for the Overseas Private Insurance Corporation. It's a state agency which offers U.S. firms low interest rate funding as well as insurance for operations in many emerging and lesser developed countries. |
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| perceived relative deprivation |
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| the cirizens' perceptions of discrepancy between the goods and conditions of the life to which thei velieve they are justifiable entitled and the amounts of those goods and conditions that they think they are able to get and keep. |
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| different participant groups in a political system. It is the players in a society influencing the authoritative decisions of the government in power. |
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| a system with a set of stakeholders each with their own aspirations and goals, who's conflicting aspirations with other stakeholders in the system need to be managed in some way (i.e. managed via a government). |
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| a firms attempts at controlling political risk through various strategic and operational actions. |
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| a firm's response to a political risk through an action. this raises costs but limits exposure. |
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| the extent of influence a government has to make and enforce authoritarian decisions. |
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| A comprehensive set of written codes or rules of law which have been stated in general terms. These codes are then applied to specific cases as they arise because civil law recognizes that business problems are often unique and consequently need special status under the law. |
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| this form of law is based on tradition and legal precedents forumulated by past court rulings, statutes, and government decrees. |
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| Stands for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. A U.S. law which prohibits American companies from making corrupt payments to foreign officials for the purpose of obtaining or keeping business. |
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| intellectual property rights |
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| law which prevent the theft of proprietary information or intellectual capital. |
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| habitual patterns of behavior that evolve over a number of years to reach the level of obligatory rules which govern how nations and their subjects interact with one another (think an international precedent for doing business). |
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| a set of nomrs prescribing patterns of behavior, including illegal conduct, which is enforced usually through a series of sanctions. |
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| an international agreement between states in written form and governed by international law. Can be bilateral or multilateral or called a convention, agreement, protocol, or declaration. |
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| a legal system and nature of laws which are based on the Koran. A.K.A. SHARI'AH. |
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| a law signed by GWbush in 2002 which provides and international system for registering trademarks. It provides at a discount and makes it easier for companies with a registered trademark in one country to extend this trademark to other member countries. |
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