AP vocab Flashcards

14753923044	Federalism	A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments	0
14753935101	assymetric federalism	power is divided unevenly between regional bodies	1
14753936520	Unitary State	A state in which most political power exists at the national level, with limited local authority.	2
14753940975	Devolution	Transferring responsibility for policies from the federal government to state and local governments.	3
14753943754	Legitimacy	a value whereby something or someone is recognized and accepted as right and proper	4
14754009184	traditional legitimacy	Legitimacy that accepts aspects of politics because they have been institutionalized over a long period of time	5
14754030995	charismatic legitimacy	Legitimacy built on the force of ideas embodied by an individual leader	6
14754033438	rational-legal legitimacy	Legitimacy based on a system of laws and procedures that are highly institutionalized.	7
14754035195	Empirical Statement	A fact-based statement.	8
14754036620	normative statement	claims that attempt to prescribe how the world should be	9
14754036621	State	the organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a territory	10
14754044542	regime	a government in power	11
14754228604	Government	The leadership or elite in charge of running the state	12
14754230973	inductive reasoning	reasoning from detailed facts to general principles	13
14754233177	deductive reasoning	the process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations	14
14754239043	Causation	the action of causing something	15
14754241359	Correlation	A measure of the relationship between two variables	16
14754242925	Liberal Democracy	A political system that promotes participation, competition, and liberty and emphasizes individual freedom and civil rights.	17
14754246060	Authoritarianism	A political system in which a small group of individuals exercises power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public.	18
14754248206	Rule of Law	No one is above the law	19
14754249477	Republicanism	the belief that government should be based on the consent of the people	20
14754252270	Coup d'etat	a sudden overthrow of the government	21
14754253992	Illiberal Democracy	a governing system in which, although elections take place, citizens are cut off from knowledge about the activities of those who exercise real power because of the lack of civil liberties	22
14754256436	Theocracy	A government controlled by religious leaders	23
14754257275	Revolution	a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.	24