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| working structures of government |
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| to make a political relationship permanent |
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| hereditary rule by one person |
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| a political system without a monarch |
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| Electoral system that elects one person per district, as in the United States or Britain |
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| electoral system that gives over half of seats to one party |
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| the most, even if less than half |
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| proportional representation |
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| electoral system that elects representatived by party's percent of vote |
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| hybrid electoral system that uses both single member districts and proportional representation |
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| first order civil divisions |
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| countries main territorial components, such as U.S. states or Spanish provinces |
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| resentment of outlying areas at rule by nation's capital |
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| shifting some powers from central government to states |
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| shifting some administrative functions from central government to lower levesl; less than devolution |
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| political system in which states have more power than national government |
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