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developed democracy

a country with institutionalized democracy and a high level of economic development

modern

characterized as secular, rational, materialistic, technological, and bureaucratic and placing a greater emphasis on individual freedom than in the past

post modern

characterized as a set of values that center on quality of life considerations and give less attention to material gain

intergovernmental system

a system in which two or more countries cooperate on issues

supranational system

an intergovernmental system with its own sovereign powers over member states

Basic law

Germany's current constitution

Bundesrat

the upper house of Germany's legislature

Bunderstag

the lower house of Germany's legislature

catchall parties

parties that attempt to attract voters of of all classes and are therefore generally centrist in their platform

Christian democratic union

Germany's largest Conservative party

codetermination

the system requiring unions occupy half of all seats on the boards of directors of Germany's largest private firms

federal chancellor

Germany's prime minister and head of government

Federal constitutional court

The powerful court that interprets Germany's basic law

Federal president

the indirectly elected largely ceremonial head of state

Federal republic of Germany

the official name of the democratic West Germany during the postwar division of Germany

free democratic party

a small centrist party that has often formed part of governing coalitions

Gastarbeiter

the German term for guest worker or foreign workers allowed to reside temporarily to provide much needed labor

German democratic republic

the official name of Communist east Germany during the postwar division of Germany

The Greens

Germany's environmentalist party

Adolf Hitler

the Nazi leader during the third reich who led Germany to defeat in ww2

Lander

German states

The left

The party furthest to the left out of all Germany's major parties; an alliance of leftist social democrats and remnants of former east German communists

Angela Merkel

Germany's conservative chancellor as of 2017

minister-president

the governor of a German state

natinal socialist party

Hitlers fascist nazi party

Prussia

the most powerful German state before reunification

reich

the German word for empire

reunification

the 1990 integration of east and west Germany

socialist democratic party

Germany's oldest party located on the center left

social market economy

the term used in Germany to describe the country's capitalist economy with strong social democratic features

Third reich

the name hitler gave to his fascist totalitarian regime

Weimar republic

Germany's first democratic republic, the collapse led to the rise of hitler

Germany's legislative/executive system

parlimentry

mixed single member districts and proportional representation

electoral system for the lower house

709

members in the Bundestag

69

members in the Bundesrat

public debt

63%

Shinzo abe

conservative national liberal democratic party politician and two time prime minister

Abenomics

Prime minister Abe's three pronged plan for economic recovery including monetary easing, fiscal stimulus, and structural reform

administrative guidance

extralegal policy directives from government officials to private sector

amakudari

"descent from heaven" , retiring Japanese senior bureaucrats take up positions in corporations or run for political office

article 9

the clause in Japans postwar constitution that requires Japan to renounce the right to wage war; also known as the peace clause

capatalist developmental state

Japan's neo-mercantilist state, which has embraced both private property and state economic intervention

democratic party of Japan

Social democratic party in government from 2009 -12; formed the merger of reform-minded opposition parties in 1998 and reformed as the democratic party after a subsequent 2016 merger

Diet

Japan's bicameral parliament

house of councillors

the upper and weaker chamber of Japan's Parliament

industrial policy

government measures designed to promote economic and industrial development

iron triangle

a term describing the Conservative alliances among Japan's bureaucrat elites, conservative politicians and big business executives

Yurikio Koike

Japan's first female governor of Tokyo, also the founder of the party of hope

Komeito

a minor political party and LDP coalition partner founded and supported by lay members of Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai

Douglas MacArthur

Us general who presided over the 7 year occupation of Japan

Meiji Oligarchs

the vanguard of junior samurai who led Japan's 19th century modernization drive

Meiji restoration

Japan's 1867-68 revolution from above, which launched Japans modernization in the name of the Meiji emperor

pork barrel projects

government appropriation or other policy supplying funds for local improvements to integrate legislatures with their constituents

rich country strong military

the mercantilist slogan promoting Japan's 19th century modernization efforts

self defense force

Japans military, ostensibly permitted only defensive capacity

shogun

a dominant lord in feudal Japan

Taishio democracy

the era of democratization in Japan ( 1918-1931

Tokogawua

the military clan that unified and ruled Japan from the 17th-19th century

twisted diet

the situation in which no party or coalition of parties controls both chambers of Japan's Parliament

465 seats

seats in the house of Representatives , directly elected in single and multiple districts

245 seats

seats in the house of councillors, elected by single majority and single proportional representation

authoritarinism

a political system in which a small group of individuals exercise power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public

nondemocratic regimes

a political regime that is controlled by a small group of individuals who exercise power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public

totalitarianism

a nondemocratic regime that is highly centralized, possessing some form of strong ideology that seeks to transform and absorb fundamental aspects of the state, society, and the economy using a wide array of institutions

resource curse

theory of development in which the existence of natural resources in a state is a barrier to modernization and democracy

populaism

a political view that does not have a constant ideological foundation, but that emphasizes hostility towards elites and established state and economic institutions and favors greater power in the hands of the public