Human Geography 1.2.1 -Government
- Unitary government: one singular organization of power
- Federal government: many state governments and one federal system managing states
U.S. Federal Government
- States choose some laws, Federal government chooses some others
- Electoral college - every state gets a certain amount of votes in the US election
- Reapportionment - The amount of seats in congress per state changes every US census
Centripetal Forces
- Things that bring a region together
- Promoting state cohesion
- Nationalism
- Unifying institutions
- Organization
Centrifugal Forces
- Things that push a region apart
- Challenges to state authority
- Less nationalism
- Regionalism
- Peripheral location
- Social and economic inequality
- Devolution - The movement of power from the central government to regional governments.
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