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| the ability to get people or groups to do what they otherwise would not do through coercion, persuasion, or leadership. |
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| all individuals and institutions that exert power and make public policy through direct action or political participation whether they are in the government or not |
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| the leadership in power or hold authority at a particular moment in as state--roughly akin to an american administration |
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| the primarily psychological sense of identification with a people because of culture, geography, or linguistic ties. |
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| the people and agencies which implement or execute government policy (from head of government to the lowers bureaucrat) |
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| the political structure that passes laws. |
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| the political structure (usually courts) that adjudicates cases and applies the law. |
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| the power of the courts to modify or nullify the actions of the legislatures and executive. |
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| the system of government where power is divided into several structures-- executive, legislative, and judicial-- with the ability to check the power of the other structures |
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| the institution and practices that endure from government to government. |
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| the set of believes or convictions that (1) identify problems in a political culture, (2) explain why they exist, and (3) prescribe a cure for the problems. |
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| Independent legal authority over a population in a particular place. |
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| a system that operates according to predictable, known, and visible set of laws and procedures. |
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| the process through which groups of people govern themselves or are governed through authority. |
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| The belief the authority is properly ruling. |
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| Supranational Organization |
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| An international organization that a state may surrender sovereignty to in order to pursue a broader regional or global purpose. |
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| All States must deal with fiver interlocking concerns: (1) solving identity concerns, (2) buliding and maintaining legitimacy, (3) responding to citizen participation, and (4) distributing the state's resources. |
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| regimes in which sub national units have little or no power. |
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| constitutional practice in which sub national units are granted considerable power. (bicameral legislatures) |
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| the collection of history, values, beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, traditions and symbols that define and influence political behavior with a state. |
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| the institutions and methods of developing and reinforcing significant public beliefs, attitudes, and practices |
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| The decisions made by a state that define what it will do. |
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| An organized group of people with their primary purpose of electing its members, promoting a particular ideology, or advancing a particular issue. |
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| Power by the people or as John Locke one said a government that has the consent of the people. |
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| the spread of representative government to more countries and process of making governments more representative. |
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| the increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of people, cultures, economies, and nation state facilitated by technology, trade, and cultural diffusion. |
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| a process by which a political regime is overthrown and replaced because of broad popular support and fundamental economic, social, or political changes are made |
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