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chap1 vocab mr adams
Question | Answer |
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an economical system with the means of production and the measn are privately owned | capitalism |
started at the end of world war 2 lasted til the collapse of the soviet union.it was the rivalry between the two super powers, US and soviet union. it was the war on words. | cold war |
a person who is regarded as supporting politically leftist or subversive casues. | communist |
a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined: critical turning point and danger. | crisis |
inputs through which people and interest groups put pressure on the state for change | demand |
invalidate a theory by finding at least one example where it does not hold true | falsifs |
a description of how international, economic, social, cultural, and technological forces are affecting events inside individual countries | globalization |
a generic term to describe the formal part of the state or administration | government |
the policy of colonizing other countries. establishin empires | imperalism |
the ricest countries with advanced economics and liberal states | industrial democracies |
organizations formed to work for the view of a narrow group | interest group |
the network of economic activity that transcends national boundaries | international political economy |
poor countries that have not developed strong states or stable reigns | less developed countries |
countries that have developed a strong industrial base grown faster than most third world nations | newly industrialized countries |
basic values and assumptions that people have toward authority, political systems, and overarching themes in poitical life. | political culture |
activities through which individuals can take part in countries politics | political participation |
an organization that contest elections or otherwise contend for power | political party |
the decisions ade by a state that defines what it will do | public policy |
the ability to get someone to do something him or her otherwise would not do | power |
the institutions and oractices that endures form government to government | regime |
all individuals and institutions that make public policy whether they are n government or not | state |
a model for understanding poitical life | system theory |
a resign in which the state has all but total power | totalitarianism |
a form of government that gurantees individual freedoms | democracy |