Poli Sci Final

  1. Political identity

    1. A social identity associating you with a specific party 

  2. Political attitude 

    1. How one thinks about how well a society is doing based off how quickly political change is occurring 

  3. Political ideology 

    1.  The basic ideas someone holds regarding the fundamental goal of politics and 

  4. Primordialism 

    1. The idea that ethnicities and nations are natural are fixed 

  5. Constructivism 

    1. Individuals ideas shape themselves and not religon 

  6. Secularization 

    1. The idea of moving something from a religious to a secular thing 

  7. Gender 

    1. A social construct that refers to differences between men and women 

  8. Women’s suffrage 

    1. The process by which women gained rights across the globe 

  9. Gender Wage Gap 

    1. The difference of earnings between men and women 

  10. Reserved Seats 

    1. A seat of seats in a parliamentary position (ie senate house lok sabbah) 

  11. LGBTQ+ Rights 

    1. Right affecting LGBTQ people 

  12. Populism (left, right, neo liberal, radical right) 

    1. The political ideology to appeal to ordinary people 

  13. Political violence 

    1. Violence outside of state control that is politically motivated

  14. Revolution 

    1. Public seizure of the state in order to overturn the existing regime and government

  15. Terrorism 

    1. The use of violence by non state actors against civilians in order to achieve a political goal 

  16. Westminster Model 

    1. The executive branch must respond on parliament 

  17. Tory Party 

    1. One of the the UK’s largest conservative party 

  18. Labour Party 

    1. One of the UK’s largest parties it has been in opposition for a little bit but as of recent came into power with Keir Starmer 

  19. Brexit 

    1. British Exit from the European Union 

  20. Fifth Republic 

    1. France's current regime a system of semi-presidentialism 

  21. Marie Lepen 

    1. Leader of the national front right wing party 

  22. Emmanual Macron 

    1. Young centrist, economist, elected in 2017 

  23. Triple transition 

    1. Russia simultaneous economic, political and regime change 

  24. Sad Vald Putin 

    1. Current president of Russia has been president since 1999 rules with an iron fist 

  25. Personalist Autocracy 

    1. All power lies in the hands of 1 person in this case Vladimir Putin 

  26. Mao Zedong 

    1. Leader of the chinese communist party dominated party until 1976 when he died 

  27. Deng Xiaoping 

    1. Paramount leader who changed chinese economics 

  28. Xi Jinping 

    1. China's current leader serves as of head of party, head of the state and head of military 

  29. CCP (chinese communist party) 

    1. Authoritarian party that has ruled China since 1999 

  30. Party State 

    1. One single party in this CCP controls the whole state 

  31. Cultural Republic 

    1. Socio Political movement in China 

  32. Gandhi 

    1. Indian National and leader of Indian Freedom movement 

  33. Congress Party 

    1. One of two major parties in India ruled for quite a while after independence and was very corrupt! 

  34. BJP 

    1. India’s peoples party, hindu nationalist, came to power in 2014

  35. Narendra Modi 

    1. BJP Priminister 

  36. Guardian Council

    1. Appointed council that vets candidates for office and can overturn legislation 

  37. Revolutionary Guard 

    1. Parliamentary force charged with protecting the regime from domestic and internal enemies 

  38. Basij 

    1. “People's Militia” serves as morality police 

  39. Mahsa Amini Protest Movement 

    1. A protest movement about bodily autonomy that took over in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini a women that died in the custody of morality police 

  40. 1917 Revolution 

    1. ??

  41. PRI state led development 

    1. ISI based until economy failed then went to IMF who told them to liberalize their economy 

  42. Drug war 

    1. A war on drugs that started in 2006 

  43. AMLO 

    1. Mexico leftist president 

  44. Gender quotas 

    1. Making sure that women are represented throughout politics 

  45. Claudia Sheinbaum 

    1. Mexico’s first female president, left wing, has a majority in both the house and senate, hand picked my AMLO 

  46. Republic of Biafra 

    1. Igbo-dominated region that tried to secede from Nigeria in the 1970s 

  47. Resource Curse 

    1. Theory of development where the vast existence of a natural resource poses a barrier to modernization and democracy 

  48. Federal Character Principle 

    1. Nigerian quota system designed to ease ethnic tension by requiring the president to appoint ministers and civil servants from each Nigerian state

  1. Bola Tinabu 

    1. President of Nigeria since 2023