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What is the term for a political system where authority is concentrated in a small group or a single leader, with limited rule of law?

Which region in southeastern Nigeria launched a failed bid for independence in 1967, leading to a bloody war?

What are the tax-exempt, charitable trusts in Iran that control a significant portion of the country's GDP through petroleum?

What term describes patron-client networks in political systems?

What is the term for a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials?

What type of political party attracts a wide range of political interests?

What term describes social or cultural divisions within a state?

What is the term for the body of government officials employed in civil occupations that are neither political nor judicial?

What term describes organizations outside of the state that help people communicate and advance their own interests?

What is the political system where interest groups become an institutionalized part of the state, often resulting in public policy through negotiations?

What type of authority is derived from the personality of a leader rather than ideology?

What is the term for a sudden, violent, illegal seizure of government power?

What type of economy is characterized by production, investment, prices, and incomes determined centrally by a government?

What is a written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government called?

What system of law is based on precedent and customs, often derived from past judicial rulings?

Which political party in the UK is generally more right-wing, favoring free markets and the upper class?

What was the campaign ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of opponents in China?

What term describes the spread of power away from the center to local branches of government?

What is the political system in which power lies in a body of citizens who elect people to represent them?

What is the Leninist organizational structure that concentrates power in the hands of the party elite?

What is the set of rules that decide how votes are cast, counted, and translated into seats in a legislature?

What is the international organization of European countries formed after WWI to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation?

What system divides power between national and regional governments?

What term describes divisions based on ethnic or cultural identity?

What principle of parliamentary democracy involves the executive and legislative branches sharing powers?

What is the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year called?

What is the total value of goods and services, including income received from abroad, produced by the residents of a country within a specific time period?

What was the policy of openness initiated by Gorbachev in the 1980s that increased freedom of speech, association, and the press in the USSR?

What term describes the increasing interdependence of economies and societies on a worldwide scale?

What is the difference between the roles of the head of government and the head of state?

What is a procedural democracy with elections but lacking real competition and some civil rights/liberties?

What is the review by a court of law of actions of a government official or entities by an appellate court of the decision of a trial court?

What is the working-class socialist party established to represent the interest of workers in the British government?

What is the acceptance by citizens of the right and power of a government to exercise authority?

What is the most radical party in Britain, known as the third largest party by number of votes?

What was Mao's method of leadership that sought to learn from the masses and continuously alter political leadership?

What system consists of both a president elected by the people and another head of government chosen by a legislative body?

What is the process of reforming political, military, economic, social, and cultural traditions to imitate the early success of Western societies?

What is a system in which three or more political parties have the capacity to gain control of a government separately or in coalition?

What term describes a group of people who feel bound into a single body by a shared culture, values, language, etc.?

What is the process of filling influential jobs in the state, society, or the economy with people approved and chosen by the communist party?

What are organizations that operate outside of the formal political arena but are still influential in confronting social, economic, and environmental issues?

What is a system in which a small group holds power, often referred to as elites or oligarchs?

What is a party system where a single party rules for long periods, and opposition parties are unlikely to gain enough support to challenge the dominant party?

What are industries partially or fully owned by the state, such as PEMEX in Mexico?

What is the term for a system where a powerful patron offers resources in return for political support and services of clients?

What was the policy by Gorbachev that involved restructuring the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market-based economy?

What is the theory of government where multiple and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group?

What is the seven-member committee that became the leading policy-making body of the Communist Party in Russia?

What is the overall set of values widely shared within a society?

What is the process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions?

What is the process of changing from government/public ownership or control to private ownership or control?

What are the fundamental rules that control access to and the exercise of political power, characterizing a regime as democratic or authoritarian?

What is a country that obtains a hefty income by exporting raw materials or leasing out natural resources to foreign companies called?

What is the term for the overthrow of a government by those who are governed, typically from the bottom up?

What is the difference between 'rule of law' and 'rule by law'?

What is the Islamic law used in Iran and northern Nigeria called?

What was the abrupt move by Boris Yeltsin to a free market economy in Russia, known for its liberalization of prices and privatization of state property?

What is the term for independent legal authority over a population in a particular territory?

What is the development strategy that uses tariffs and other barriers to imports to stimulate domestic industries?

What are the zones in China where countries were invited to set up shop with minimal regulations, producing goods for cheap labor?

What is the difference between a supranational organization and an international organization?

What is a government controlled by religious leaders called, as seen in Iran?

What form of government exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life?

What is a state governed constitutionally as a unit, without internal divisions or a federalist delegation of powers?

What is the vote taken by a legislature to determine whether its members continue to support the current prime minister?

What is a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health, housing, pensions, etc.?

What is the term for the durability of a political regime over time?

What is the term for valuing the opinions and needs of the general public over that of the elites?

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