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In legal-rational authority, the ruler exercises power to govern based on legal rules and procedures to maintain public order. As leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Mao’s political authority was _______
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Largely legal-rational and charismatic.
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Political Ideologies are sets of ideas and beliefs that inspire and affect political action, thus, ideologies are ____
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Never Neutral
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The following features best describe free-market environmentalism.
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Private property ownership; free market economy; full environmental production cost.
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According to Mintz et. al ___ is largely about collective decision-making, because of the diversity of needs, ideas, and wants andthe resources for distribution are never enough
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Politics
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Examples of Counter-ideologies are ____
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environmentalism, reform liberalism, and social conservatism
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_____ is generally a desirable good for all members of the community.
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Common good
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Power is inherent in politics as people are largely _____
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coerced, influenced, or persuaded to obtain the common good.
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The following features best describe Marxism and communism
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Class conflict, cooperative nature of human beings, workers control the state
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In Canada, education is a political issue, so that Canadians have _____regarding funding for educational institutions.
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different opinions
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The following features best describe socialist feminism
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patriarchal capitalist system; transformation of capitalist system
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The following features best describe conservatism
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Inherently irrational humans, law and order, and strong government
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When Canada imposed Sanctions on Russia, Canada was using power as _____
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Coercion
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Politics is important in conflict resolution. Whether in a family, business, or government, people with ____
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opposing views do cooperate
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Government decisions have ______ on the lives of people
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Different impacts.
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______ suggest that a limited government should promote the separation between religion and politics
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Liberalism
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The key characteristics of liberal democracy:
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Western representative democracy, rule of law, and rights and freedoms
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In a _______, the political executives are also legislators.
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Parliamentary system
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When public laws are being decided by the people themselves, _____ exists.
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Democracy
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_____ means citizens have the opportunity to evaluate regularly how political leaders perform in office.
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Accountability
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A nation refers to a group of people who have a sense of belonging based largely on _____
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Identity
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The political leaders in a ____ regime encourage the proliferation of civil society organizations advocating their own political interests.
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Democratic
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The government makes political and administrativedecisions on a daily basis. Thus, it includes the following:
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prime minister, cabinet, and bureaucracy
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The Benn video emphasizes the principles of ____ in a functioning democracy
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Freedom and equality
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This form of government subjects everyone, including the government, under the law.
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Polity
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The state is characterized by the following:
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sovereign, government, and permanent
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Plebiscitary democracy is most appropriately described as:
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Populist, direct vote by citizens, and citizen's petition
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When the citizens elect their political leaders, it indicates _____ present in liberal democracy.
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Popular participation
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Representative democracy is best described as:
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party representation, election, and indirect democracy
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Timely access to information is important in _____ democratic government
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Transparent
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Adolf Hitler in Germany was a ______ leader because his government controlled and monitored the lives of citizens.
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totalitarian regime
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When the interests of the voters in a riding, rather than national interest, are the priority, representation is called ______
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delegate model
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_____ Ideology supports New Public Management which adopts entrepreneurship into public administration
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neoliberalism
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In the New Public Management, public administration is characterized as:
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businesslike, lean public service, and decentralized
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Thelegislature in presidential system is ___ than parliamentary system because thelegislators are able to develop or modify policy proposals.
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more open
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It implies that external controls over the power of the bureaucracy are necessary.
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Administocracy
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Theyare generally viewed as the most powerful government agencies because they haveadministrative, fiscal, and policy powers.
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Central Agencies
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____ implies that parliamentary lawmakers cannot always vote according to their conscience.
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Strong party discipline
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Holding the government accountable for its actions or inactions is the responsibility of the ____
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legislators
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Amajority government in a parliamentary system is very decisive,thus effective, because the political executives control ____ of government.
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Both the executive and legislative branches
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Partnership with voluntary organization is a _____ strategy of delivering government services.
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New Public Management
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In instrumental representation, the voter is called ____ in its relationship with the member of parliament.
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principal
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Being involved in policymaking is generally viewed as a political function of the modern bureaucracy. It includes ______
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drafting of proposed bills
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The ___ control(s) the power of the bureaucrats because of the ability to appoint or remove deputy ministers from their advisory functions.
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Cabinet ministers
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Alberta has a one-party dominant system because one particular party wins elections and governs for a long period of time, but there are ____ in elections.
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more than two parties competing
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The political party which may have a better chance to govern in a democracy because it is perceived as less ideological, and seeks compromises of varied interests.
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brokerage party
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It connects the citizens and their government
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political party
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The central or national government is specified by the constitution to have the only sovereign power in a ______.
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Unitary system
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Theconstitution establishes the fundamentalrules and principles by which a State is governed. Thus, itspecifies the State's ____.
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Form of government
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A _____ always produces a majority government
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one-party dominant system
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Whether the state has a fusion or separation of political powers is determined by its _____
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Constitution
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_____ allows the courts to declare a law to be unconstitutional.
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Judicial review
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Thenotwithstanding clause allows provincial governments to pass laws that ___ aCanadian citizen’s freedom of opinion or expression.
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May suppress
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The Liberal Party and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada are originally ____
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Cadre parties or elite-based.
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The rule of law or constitutionalism in liberal democracies means that there should be limits on the power of _____
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Government
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This party system has five or more significant parties, with no single party having a large number of seats
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Fragmented multi-party system
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Theproportional representation is a/an ___ because it determines the number ofseats a political party could win based on the percentage of votes and,eventually, which party could form the government.
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electoral system
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This principle gives every adult citizen in a democracy the right to choose political leaders regardless of gender, ethnicity, class, or education.
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Universal suffrage
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The world values survey results indicating support for democracy is an example of _____
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public opinion
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It is the primary means by which citizens participate in government affairs.
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Election
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It is anelectoral system that gives a political party seats based on winning the mostvotes in some districts as well as the popular votes.
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mixed-member proportional
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The preferential voting requires a candidate to win the majority of votes after the voters preferences are considered and counted. Thus, it is a ____ system.
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Majoritarian
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It is an electoral system that ensures the winning candidate has the support of the majority of the constituency.
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Preferential voting system
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It suggeststhat there are various political cultures in a political community, such asethnic, linguistic, religious, class, regional, gender or generationalgroupings.
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Sub-culture
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It explains why most Albertans dislike big governments.
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Political sub-culture
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They haveinfluence over government leaders, laws and public policies, but they do notonly seek to change public policies but also transform the values of thesociety in general.
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Social movements
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Theymaintain their effectiveness in influencing government actions and policiesbecause of the largely grassroots nature of political participation, whichpotentially generates new ideas and shape political discourse.
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Social movements.
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Thisparticular perspective considers the role of media in shaping political cultureas served neither by public nor private organizations, but by making journalismas ethical as possible.
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Social responsibility
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Family plays an important role in _____ , thus, if our parents value voting and elections we are more likely to vote during elections.
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Political socialization
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This term implies that elections generally allow the citizens to choose the party they believe is most competent to design and implement solutions to deal with important government issues.
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Valence issues
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It occurs when children hear their parents give their views on the political parties.
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Political socialization.
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In principle, politicalrepresentation requiresthe Members of Parliament to cast their votes based on ____.
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The people's wishes
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Thebureaucracy's main function is to run the government as efficiently as possibleon a daily basis.
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Public Administration
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Theconstitution of the UK is ___ because it does not have a formal document calledthe Constitution.
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Uncodified
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In democracies, political parties help articulate political interests to the public as their parties’ policy _____.
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Platforms
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The Canadianconstitution can be considered a mixture of a variety of elements consisting of constitutional conventions,such as the ___.
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Non-confidence rule in Parliament.
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