By Ameen B.
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Political
Efficacy
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Political efficacy indicates a citizens'
faith and trust in government and their
own belief that they can understand and
influence political affairs.
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Rational-legal
Authority
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Rational legal authority is based neither on
tradition nor on the force of a single
personality, but rather on a system of wellestablished laws and procedures
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Centripetal and
Centrifugal
Forces
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Centripetal: Forces that bind the
people of the state; giving it strength
Centrifugal: oppose centripetal
forces; they destabilize
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Linkage institutions
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Groups that connect government
to its citizens, such as political
parties, interest groups, and print
and electronic media
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Democratic Deficit
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A democratic deficit occurs when
ostensibly democratic organizations
or institutions in fact fall short of
fulfilling what are believed to be the
principles of democracy
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Iron Triangle
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Mutually beneficial relationships
between private interests,
bureaucrats, and legislators
Sometimes called an
“integrated elite”
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Pluralism
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A political theory or system of
power sharing among a
number of political parties
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Parastatals
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A government-owned corporation to
compensate for the lack of private
economic development or to ensure
complete and equitable service to the
whole country (can be anything from a
national airline or railroad to a postal
system or manufacturing and marketing
operations
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Post Materialist
Values
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Beliefs in the importance of policy
goals beyond one’s immediate selfinterest, as well as one’s prosperity
and security
Examples: Environmentalism and
cultural diversity
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Bonyads
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Quasi-private foundations and religious
endowments that are charged with aiding
the poor by managing many state-owned
enterprises
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Difference:
Correlation and
Causation
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•Correlation: An apparent
association between variables
•Causation: A correlation in which
a change in one variable results in
a change in others
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Difference:
Code Law and
Common Law
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Code Law
no tradition of judicial review or consistent
application of the law.
letter of the law is what matters.
great in theory.
no interpretation of judge—follow the code (the law)
Most developing countries have this system
Common Law
one application determines the next application of
the law
Precedence
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Difference:
Coup d'état and
Revolution
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Coup d'état: A forceful replacement of a
regime or a government by a small elite
group or groups
Revolution: A process by which a political
regime is overthrown and replaced
because of a broad popular support and
participation in the process
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Difference:
Coinciding and
Cross-Cutting
Cleavages
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•Factors that separate groups within a society
•May be cultural, historic, geographic, economic,
ethnic, racial, etc.
•The wider and deeper the cleavages, the less
unified the society
•Cleavages which coincide with one another can
reinforce each other: Religion and Ethnicity
•Cleavages that are cross-cutting weaken
divisions between groups: Race and Labor
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Difference:
Consensual &
Conflictual
Political Culture
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•Consensual: accepts both the
legitimacy of the regime and the
solutions to major problems
•Conflictual: sharply divided,
often on both legitimacy of the
regime and the solutions to the
major problems.
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Which of the AP6 have
strong patterns of patronclientelism in their political
cultures
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Russia, China,
Mexico, Nigeria
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Which of the AP6 directly
elect both a president and
representatives to a
legislative body?
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Russia, Nigeria,
Iran, and Mexico
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Which of the AP6 combines a
plurality (first-past-the-post)
electoral system with
proportional representation?
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Mexico
(Russia stopped in 2007)
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Which of the following
countries bases its legal
and justice system on
common law?
UK, Russia, and China
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UK
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Which of the following countries
formally divides its executive into
two positions: the head of
government and the head of
state?
UK, Russia, and China
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UK, Russia,
and China
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Which of the AP6 have a
president?
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Russia, Mexico,
China, Nigeria, Iran
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Which of the AP6 have
a federalist political
system?
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Russia, Mexico, Nigeria
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Which of the AP6 use a
plurality system only for
electing representatives
to the national
legislature?
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UK, Iran,
Nigeria
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The legitimacy of the most
recent national elections
has been seriously
challenged in which of the
AP6?
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Mexico, Iran, and
Nigeria
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Which of the AP6 have
bicameral legislatures?
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Mexico, Russia,
Nigeria, UK
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Daily
Double!
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Which of the following
countries has a history of
corporatism?
UK
Russia
China
Mexico
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United
Kingdom &
Mexico
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Final
Jeopardy
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Name the current Presidents
and Prime Ministers of all of
the AP6.
Answers must include title.
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Mexico: Felipe Calderón (President)
UK: David Cameron (PM)
Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan (President)
Russia: Vladimir Putin (PM) & Dmitry Medvedev (Pr)
China: Hu Jintao (President)
Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President)
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