CPO2001 Exam 1 Cases

1. An example of asymmetric federalism India 2. Has no written constitution United Kingdom 3. Has a legislative-executive system: Parliamentary United Kingdom 4. United Kingdom's lower house House of Commons 5. United Kingdom's Upper house House of Lords 6. UK's division of power Unitary 7. UK's electoral districts Single-member districts with plurality 8. UK's chief judicial body Supreme Court 9. UK's Head of state The king, position is more ceremonial 10. Election UK use for the house of Commons "First past the post" 11. How MPs are elected in UK Voters directly elect their local MP 12. Whose political system is India similar to UK 13. What did India's constitution establish it as? A federal republic 14. What does each of India's states have Own elected government consisting of a legislature and a chief minister 15. India's House of the People Seats 545 members, all but two elected by voters 16. India's Council of States Represents India's 28 states and nine territories, all but 12 of its 250 members are indirectly elected by state assemblies 17. Manages the day-to-day affairs of the government in India Prime minister of India, his ofce remains the primary source of policy making and political power 18. President's role in India Largely symbolic 19. Cabinet (UK) Top members of the UK government who assist the prime minister and run the major ministries. 20. Celtic Fringe Refers to Scotland and Wales 21. Collective Responsibility (UK) Tradition that requires all members of the cabinet to either support government policy or resign 22. Collective Consensus (UK) Postwar consensus between the UK's major parties ot build and sustain a welfare state. 23. Common Law (UK) Legal system that based on local customs and precedent rather than formal legal codes 24. Commonwealth (UK) Organization that includes the UK and most of its former colonies 25. Confederation of British Industry UK's most important group representing the private sector 26. Crown British monarchy, head of state 27. House of Commons the frst legislative body of Parliament whose members are elected. 28. House of Lords the upper house of the British parliament 29. Magna Carta the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 30. Majoritarian (UK) Term describing the virtually unchecked power of a parliamentary majority in the UK political sysetm 31. Member of Parliament (UK) An individual legislator in the House of Commons 32. Parliament (UK) the lawmaking body of British government 33. Prime Minister Head of government 34. Assymetric Federalism (India) A system where power is devolved unequally across the country and its constituent regions 35. BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) Indian People's Party, Hindu nationalist party 36. Caste (India) Hindu hereditary social grouping 37. Center (India) Term referring to India's national government and its capital in New Delhi 38. Chief Minister Chief executives of federal states in India; elected by the state legislature to serve a 5 year term 39. Council of States Weaker, upper house of Indian Parliament representing India's 28 states and 9 territories 40. Emergency Rule Law invoked by Indian national government to suspend the constitution by declaring martial law 41. Hinduism India's dominant religious tradition 42. Hindutva Hindu nationalism 43. House of the People (India) Lower and more powerful house of Indian Parliament 44. Indian National Congress Major Indian political party; began as leading organization of Indian independence movement 45. License Raj India's highly bureaucratized and politicized mercantilist system of licenses, permits, and quotas governing virtually all aspects of the economy 46. President's rule Similar to emergency rule but on the state level; national government takes control of the state. 47. Abenomics Prime Minister Abe's three-pronged plan for economic recovery, including monetary easing (raising infation), fscal stimulus (budget increases), and structural reform 48. Administrative guidance Extra-legal policy directives from government ofcials to the private sector (Japan) 49. Article 9 (Japan) The clause in Japan's postwar constitution that requires japan to renounce the right to wage war 50. Capitalist Developmental State Japan's modern neomercantilist state, which has embraced both private property and state economic intervention 51. Diet (Japan) Japan's legislature made up of two houses (bicameral parliament) 52. House of Councilors The upper and weaker chamber of Japan's parliament 53. Industrial policy (Japan) Government measures designed to promote economic and industrial development 54. Rich country, strong military The mercantilist slogan promoting Japan's nineteenth-century modernization eforts 55. Twisted Diet situation in which no party or coalition of parties controls both chambers of the Japanese parliament; common since 2007