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| 312760764 | Authoritarian | A system of government based on coercion. | |
| 312760765 | Bicameralism | A legislature with two houses. | |
| 312760766 | Causation | When a change in one variable causes a change in another variable. | |
| 312760767 | Charismatic legitimacy | The right to rule based on the personality of an individual. | |
| 312760768 | Civil society | The web of membership in formal and informal social and political groups that are not part of the state apparatus but operate in public, and which some analysts believe is needed to sustain democracy; composed of organizations that are voluntary and autonomous self-governing groups created to advance their own causes. | |
| 312760769 | Cleavages | Factors that separate groups. | |
| 312760770 | Coinciding cleavage | A division that strengthens feelings of difference and discrepancy, weakening society. | |
| 312760771 | Colonialism | The control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent nation, territory, or people. | |
| 312760772 | Command economy | A system in which the central power makes all major economic decisions through central planning. | |
| 312760773 | Conservatism | An ideology that questions whether change is necessary. | |
| 312760774 | Cooptation | Granting special favors in exchange for a benefit. "Buying off" critics. | |
| 312760775 | Corporatism | When groups, such as business and/or labor, work closely with the government in policy-making. | |
| 312760776 | Correlation | An apparent connection between variables. | |
| 312760777 | Country | The state, government, regime, and people who live in a political system. | |
| 312760778 | Cross-cutting cleavage | A division that includes people with differences, strengthening society. | |
| 312760779 | Democracy | A system of government that allows citizens to choose policy makers in free, competitive elections. | |
| 312760780 | Democratization | Transformation process from a non-democratic regime to a procedural democracy to a substantive democracy. | |
| 312760781 | Developed countries | Countries with a high standard of living and strong economies. | |
| 312760782 | Developing countries | Countries attempting to improve their economic status. Currently with low average income and less sophisticated infrastructure. Might be described as the "third world". | |
| 312760783 | Devolution | Decentralization of national/central power to local units of government. | |
| 312760784 | Economic liberalization | Less government regulation of the economy and greater participation of private entities. | |
| 312760785 | Electoral system | Mechanisms through which votes are cast and tallied, and seats in the legislature are allotted. | |
| 312760786 | Fascist | Authoritarian regimes, such as Hitler's and Mussolini's. Totalitarian attempts to impose state control on all. aspects of life. | |
| 312760787 | Federal system/federalism | A way of organizing a nation so that two levels of government have formal authority over the same land and people, with shared power between units of government. | |
| 312760788 | First-past-the-post, SMD (Single member district) | Winner-take-all. Whoever wins the most votes gets the one seat available in an election. |
