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| Rivalry between the superpowers from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union | ||
| A basic political document that lays out the institutions and procedures a country follows | ||
| A critical turning point | ||
| The way governments (or other bodies) make policies | ||
| In systems theory, everything lying outside the political system | ||
| How events today are communicated to people later on and shape what people do later on | ||
| Popular term used to describe how international, economic, social, cultural and technological forces are affecting events inside individual countries | ||
| Either a generic term used to describe the formal part of the state or the administration of the day | ||
| The policy of colonizing other countries-literally establishing empires | ||
| The richest countries with advanced economies and liberal states | ||
| Support or demand from to the state | ||
| An organization formed to work for the views of a relatively narrow group of people such as a trade union or business association. | ||
| The network of economic activities that transcends national boundries | ||
| The poorest countries with failing economies and sometimes nonexistent states | ||
| As used by political scientists primarily a psychological term to describe attachment or identity rather than a geopolitical unit such as the state | ||
| The handful of countries such as South Korea that have developed a strong industrial base and grown faster than most of the third world | ||
| Public policy in systems theory | ||
| Basic values and assumptions that people have towards authority, the political system, and other overarching themes in political life | ||
| Organization that contests elections or otherwise contends for power | ||
| The process through which a community, state, organizes and governs itself | ||
| As conventionally defined the ability to get someone to do something he or she otherwise wouldn't want to do | ||
| The decisions made by a state that define what it will do | ||
| The institutions and practices that endure from government to government such as the constitutional order in a democracy | ||
| All individuals and institutions that make public policy whether they are in the government or not | ||
| One with the capacity and the political will to make an implement effective public policy | ||
| In systems analysis, popular input that tends to endorse the current leadership and its policies | ||
| A model for understanding political life | ||
| Informal term for the poorest countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America | ||
| One without the capacity and the political will to make and implement effective public policy |
