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17 Cards in this Set
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Capitalism |
Economic model wherein people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market, with the goal of achieving profit McKinna Copple |
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Commodification |
The process through which something is given monetary value. Commodification occurs when a good or idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy McKinna Copple |
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Core |
Processes that incorporate higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology, generate more wealth than periphery processes in the world economy McKinna Copple |
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Periphery |
Processes that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology, and generate less wealth than core processes in the world economy McKinna Copple |
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Semi-periphery |
Places where core and periphery processes are both occurring, places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the periphery |
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Ability |
In context of political power, the capacity of a state to influence other states or achieve its goals through diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means McKinna Copple |
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Centripetal |
Forces that tend to unify a country such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences McKinna Copple |
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Centrifugal |
Forces that tend to divide a country such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences McKinna Copple |
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Unitary |
A nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state |
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Federal |
A political-territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state McKinna Copple |
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Devolution |
The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government McKinna Copple |
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Territorial representation |
System wherein each representative is elected from a territorially defined district McKinna Copple |
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Reapportionment |
Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people McKinna Copple |
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Splitting |
In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which the majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created therein ensuring control by the majority of each of the districts, as opposed to the result of majority-minority districts McKinna Copple |
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Majority-minority districts |
In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which a majority of the population is from the minority McKinna Copple |
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Gerrymandering |
Redistricting for advantage, or the practice of dividing the areas into electoral districts to give one political an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible McKinna Copple |
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Boundary |
Vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above the surface McKinna Copple |
