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AP Comparative Government ExamReview Questions with Answers
Accountability - -The concept that government officials are responsible to
and serve at the pleasure of constituents or elected officials (and that they
may be removed from office by those electors or officials).
-Adjudicate - -To resolve a matter in disputed; when backed up by the
authority of government the decision can be enforced
-Agricultural sector - -That part of a country's economy that is involved in
the production of farm products
-Autarchy - -Complete self-sufficiency
-Authoritarianism - -A system of governance based in coercion rather than
political legitimacy
-Authority - -The legal right to exercise power on behalf of the society
and/or government
-Autocracy - -A system of governance in which a small group has absolute
power
-Autonomy - -The degree to which a state can implement policies
independent of the populace or the amount of sovereignty a nation-state can
exercise in the global environment
-Balance of trade - -Comparison between the value of exports and the value
of imports for a nation-state; usually figured by subtracting the value of
imports from the value of exports (a positive balance of trade means that
exports were worth more than imports; a negative balance of trade means
the value of imports exceeded the value of exports).
-Bicameral - -Describing a legislative body with two houses
-Budgetary deficit - -The result of government spending in any one fiscal
year exceeding the government revenue in that year (national debt is the
total of yearly deficits)
-Bureaucracy - -A hierarchically structured organization charged with
carrying out the policies determined by those with political authority
, -Cabinet - -In a parliamentary system, the group of ministers who direct
administrative bureaucracies (ministries) and make up the government,
which is responsible to the parliament; in a presidential system, the
administrative directors responsible to the president
-Capacity - -The degree to which a state or government is able to
implement its policies
-Capitalism - -An economic system that emphasizes private property rights
and market mechanisms
-Catch-all party - -A political party whose aim is to gather support from a
broad range of citizens through a de-emphasis of ideology and an emphasis
on pragmatism, charismatic leadership, and marketing
-Causation - -A correlation in which a change in one variable results in
change in others
-Checks and balances - -A system of governance in which divisions of
government can restrain the political authority of other divisions
-Citizen - -A member of a state who is legally entitled to full civil rights and
is legally obliged to perform defined public duties
-Civic culture - -A political culture in which citizens widely share a belief in
the legitimacy of their regime and a trust in the government; therefore the
citizens demonstrate restraint in their demands on the government
-Civil servants - -Employees of the government who administer policy;
expected to serve all governments
-Civil service - -A system of carefully describing the tasks involved in
performing government jobs, evaluating applicants for those jobs (civil
service examinations), and hiring people from among those applicants based
on skills and experience rather than political factors; civil service also
protects incumbents in civil service positions from politically based
retribution
-Civil society - -All those organizations outside of government and
(according to some authorities) commercial arenas, which provide avenues
of public participation in society
-Class - -The divisions of society into groups according to economic roles
and status attributes (also called social class).
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