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developed democracy

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

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modern

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

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post modern

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

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intergovernmental system

a system in which two or more countries cooperate on issues

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supranational system

an intergovernmental system with its own sovereign powers over member states

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Basic law

Germany's current constitution

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Bundesrat

the upper house of Germany's legislature

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Bunderstag

the lower house of Germany's legislature

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catchall parties

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

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Christian democratic union

Germany's largest Conservative party

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codetermination

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

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federal chancellor

Germany's prime minister and head of government

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Federal constitutional court

The powerful court that interprets Germany's basic law

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Federal president

the indirectly elected largely ceremonial head of state

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Federal republic of Germany

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

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free democratic party

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

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Gastarbeiter

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

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German democratic republic

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

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The Greens

Germany's environmentalist party

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Adolf Hitler

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

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Lander

German states

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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

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Angela Merkel

Germany's conservative chancellor as of 2017

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minister-president

the governor of a German state

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natinal socialist party

Hitlers fascist nazi party

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Prussia

the most powerful German state before reunification

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reich

the German word for empire

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reunification

the 1990 integration of east and west Germany

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socialist democratic party

Germany's oldest party located on the center left

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social market economy

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

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Third reich

the name hitler gave to his fascist totalitarian regime

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Weimar republic

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

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Germany's legislative/executive system

parlimentry

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mixed single member districts and proportional representation

electoral system for the lower house

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709

members in the Bundestag

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69

members in the Bundesrat

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public debt

63%

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Shinzo abe

conservative national liberal democratic party politician and two time prime minister

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Abenomics

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

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administrative guidance

extralegal policy directives from government officials to private sector

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amakudari

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

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article 9

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

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capatalist developmental state

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

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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

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Diet

Japan's bicameral parliament

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house of councillors

the upper and weaker chamber of Japan's Parliament

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industrial policy

government measures designed to promote economic and industrial development

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iron triangle

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

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Yurikio Koike

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

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Komeito

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

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Douglas MacArthur

Us general who presided over the 7 year occupation of Japan

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Meiji Oligarchs

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

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Meiji restoration

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

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pork barrel projects

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

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rich country strong military

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

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self defense force

Japans military, ostensibly permitted only defensive capacity

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shogun

a dominant lord in feudal Japan

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Taishio democracy

the era of democratization in Japan ( 1918-1931

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Tokogawua

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

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twisted diet

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

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465 seats

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

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245 seats

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

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authoritarinism

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

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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

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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

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resource curse

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

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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

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