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59 Cards in this Set
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Alternative vote
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f
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Approval voting
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f
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Disproportinality
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f
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District Magnitude
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fd
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Duverger's Law
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df
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Effective number of parties
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fd
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Electoral formula
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d
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electoral thresholds
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d
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Issue dimensions
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f
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Factions
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f
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Gerrymander
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f
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Majority system
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f
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Malapportionment
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f
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Majority-minority districts
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f
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Mixed-member majoritarian (MMM)
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f
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Mixed member proportional (MMP
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f
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Partisan dealignment
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f
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Proportional represntation
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PR
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Public vs. private financing of campaigns
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f
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Run-off election
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f
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Single Member District (SMD) plurality
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f
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Single nontransferable vote (SNTV)
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f
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Single transferable vote (STV)
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f
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Accountability
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those who govern are accountable to at least a portion of the governed
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Agenda-setting authority
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determining which public policy questions will be debated or considered
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Balance of power
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f
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Bicameralism
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members vote in two separate chambers, in lower and upper house.
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Cabinet duration
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if cabinets are in power for a long time, that means they are powerful and stable
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Cabinet minister
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leader of the cabinet, if the cabinet wins then the cabinet leader either becomes the president or the prime minister
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Coalition government
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f
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Cohabitation/ Divided government
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occurs in semi-presidential systems such as France. President is from a different political party than the majority of the members of the parliament
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Dissolution
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f
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Dual democratic legitimacies
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f
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Government formation
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f
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Government instability vs. Democratic instability
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f
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Identifiability
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f
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Immobilism
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f
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Investive requirement
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f
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Majoritarianism
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f
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Manufactured Majority
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f
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Midterm election
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f
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Minimal connected coalitions
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f
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Minimal range coalitions
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f
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Minimal winning coalition
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s
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Minority government
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f
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Mutual checks
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f
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One-party vs. coalition cabinets
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f
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Oversized coalition
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f
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Parliamentarism
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f
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Parliamentary dissolution
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f
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Perils of Presidentialism
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f
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Premier-presidentialism
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f
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Presidential vs. parliamentary cabinets
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f
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Presidentialism
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f
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Prime Minister
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f
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Separation of powers vs. fusion of powers
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f
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temporal rigidity
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f
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Veto powers (item and package) and override provisions
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f
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Vote of no confidence vs. Vote of confidence
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