AP COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT TERMS

Legitimacy

Sovereignty

State

Nation

Authoritarianism

cooptation

coercion

accounability

civil liberties

checks and balances

seperation of powers

democratic backsliding

theocracy

personalist regime

regime

rule by law

rule of law

civil society

pluralism

social movements

government

multinational state

subnational units of government

coup d’etat

authority

regime stability

power

corruption

transparency

correlation

causation

empirical

normative

qualitative

quantitative

democracy

hybrid regime

freedom house

fascism

neoliberalism

ideology

bureaucracy

cabinet

chief executive

bicameral

unicameral

legislature

code law

common law

judicial independence

judicial review

judiciary

parliamentary system

presidential system

vote of no confidence

semi-presidential system

federal system

unitary system

first-past-the-post

electoral system

majority

plurality

mixed electoral system

single-member-district plurality

quotas

proportional representation

catch-all party

one-party system

two-party system

multiparty system

GDP growth rate

GDP per capita

Gini index

austerity

Human Development Index

productivity

economic liberalization

social welfare

referendum

runoff election