| A | B |
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| public policies | all those things a government decides to do |
| government | is an institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies |
| state | a body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically, and having the power to make and enforce law without consent of any higher authority |
| sovereign | having supreme and absolute power within its territory |
| unitary government | a centralized government with all powers of the government held by a central authority |
| federal government | one in which the powers of the government are divided between a central government and several local governments |
| confederation | an alliance of independent states |
| presidential government | features a separation of powers bwtween the executive and legislative branches of the government |
| parliamentary government | one in which the executive is made up of the prime minister or premier and that official cabinet |
| dictatorship | form of government in which those who rule cannot be held respobnsible to the will of the people |
| democracy | a system of government in which supreme authority rests with the people |
| direct democracy | a democratic system of government in which the peopleparticipate directly in decision making |
| representative democracy | system of government in which publci policies are made by officials who are selected by the voters and held accountable to them in periodic elections |
| compromise | the process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests in order to find the position most acceptable to the largest number |
| anarchy | the total absence of government |
