AP Comp Gov - Global Challenges (Ch. 1)

Democracy

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

Democratization

A process of transition as a country attempts to move from an authoritarian form of government to a democratic one.

Communist

Command system, government owns the means of production, economic decisions are made by central government, and government provides extensive social programs for population

Globalization

the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Hybrid Regime

a class of regime that appears to be neither fully democratic nor fully authoritarian, such as electoral authoritarianism, delegative democracy, and illiberal democracy

Imperialism

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.

ladder of abstraction

organization of concepts in sequence from the most concrete and individual to the most general

Marxist-Leninism

Derived from Bolshevism, this calls for an overthrow of the state by an organized unit, but in the cities of industrialized countries.

multinational corporation

a company that is heavily engaged in international trade, beyond exporting and importing

nation-state

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

Parliament

A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation

political culture

an overall set of values widely shared within a society

public goods

Goods that are neither excludable nor rival in consumption

public policy

the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem

regime change

the replacement of a country's government with another government by facilitating the deposing of its leader or leading political party

BRICS

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

European Union (EU)

(syn Common Market) an economic association established in 1957 by a number of Western European countries to promote free trade among its members