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| Rejection of any official recognition of separate communities |
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| strict separation between private religious life and public political life |
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| process whereby immigrants adopt the customs, values, and traditions of their new culture |
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| Longtime leader of the extreme right National Front Party |
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| Qualified Majority Voting |
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| requirement of super-majorities in terms of countries- 55% and population - 65% to pass certain bills |
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| Major Alternative Types of Decision Rules (4) |
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1) Unamity
2)Qualified or Super Majority
3)Simple Majority
4)Plurality |
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| citizens and politicians opposed to European immigration |
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| unrestricted free trade and little/no economic role for state |
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| restrictions on imports to shield domestic industries from foreign competition |
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| term used to describe low-income, immigrant housing projects |
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| loose, informal cooperation between parties of similar orientation |
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| A conservative populist philosophy that is anti-establishment, anti-intellectual, and anti-immigrant |
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| nickname for conservative parties on the right, named after Charles de Gaulle |
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| Advantages of Two Round Systems |
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1)more choices/greater representation
2)more stable coalitions |
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| Three Types of Islamic womens Wear |
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| legal system where the role of the court is solely that of an impartial mediator between parties |
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| French National police organization with responsibility for general law enforcement |
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| nomadic people whose ancestors are thought to have left North west India and scattered across Europe |
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| a person or a group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place |
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| a legal system where the court or a part of the court is actively involved in determining the facts of the case |
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| foreign affairs and defense |
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| scheduled terms of office so that only some officials are elected during any given election, often adopted to create more relative stability in government bodies |
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| ability of the court to nullify actions taken by other government entities on the basis of constitutionality |
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| made by elected officials and usually only deal with broad principles |
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| made by bureaucrats and spell out specific rules of implantation |
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| rectification by a court harm inflicted upon an individual through a wrongful act |
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| First Order Civil Divisions |
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| the main territorial units within a country |
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| administrators appointed by central government to implement, not make policy |
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| sub national governments share sovereignty with National government |
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| sub national unites act as mere administrative branches of national government, no autonomy |
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| Three Problems With Unitary Systems |
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1)Regional Discontent and Fragmentation
2)Policy innovation Disincentives
3)Apathy |
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| a country's political capital |
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| Regions and cities outside the centers of power |
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| Failure or refusal of eligible voters to actually cast a ballot |
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| Parliamentary Dissolution |
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| the closure of a legislature when a new election is called |
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| President: Extraordinary Powers |
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1)Plebiscitary
2)Decree Authority
3)Emergency |
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| ability to call direct vote by the electorate to approve or reject a policy proposal |
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| power of an executive to enact policies without a need for legislative approval |
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| position of authority which carries great persuasive power due to its institutional significance |
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| process which a formal reprimand is issued to an individual by an authorative body |
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| system in which one executive originates and survives independent of the assembly while the survival of the other depends on support of legislature |
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| Situation in which the president and Premier are from different parties |
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| Crises of Institutionalism |
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| process by which governing principle of a system come to be widely accepted |
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| systems in which core governing principles or rules are considered open to debate and thus seen by opposition as temporary |
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| socipolitical segregation within a system that emerges when social cleavages come to overlap and reinforce each other |
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| France's Three Dominant Cleavages |
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1)Religion
2) Region
3)Class |
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| opposition to any political influence or sanction by the state of a particular religion |
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| French term for middle class |
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| type of regime in which all power is concentrated in a single individual |
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| Two consequences of France's Pendelum History |
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1)Crises of Institutionalism
2)Social Polarization |
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| Russian for intellectual elite of a society |
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| Marxist term for industrial working class |
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| tern used to describe military and political collaborators with a foreign occupation government |
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| french puppet government during WWII Nazi Occupation |
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| Three Structural Causes of Fourth Republics Failure |
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1)Party system Fragmentation
2)Polarization and Instability
3)Immobilism |
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| situation in which two ore more parties are needed to form a government in a parliamentary |
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| situation in which most parties are not centrist, but far left or far right |
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| political paralysis or gridlock arising from lack of a stable, effective parliamanetary majority |
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| military takeover of a sitting government |
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| leader of the WWII French Resistance |
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| Vietnamese nationalist Guerrilla group fighting for Independence |
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| After WWII, France faced serious challenges from independence movements in its former colonies |
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| process in which countries achieve their independence from another country through peaceful or violent means |
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