| A | B |
|---|
| Those with election of parliament only which in turn elects the prime minister. | Parliamentary Systems |
| Chief political official in. parliamentary systems | Prime Minister |
| Top executives in a government who head ministries or departments. | Cabinet |
| Legislator who instructors others party members when and how to vote. | Whip |
| Lower more important chamber of the German parliament. | Bundestag |
| A legislative body with an upper and a lower chamber. | Bicameral |
| Attention legislators pay to complaints of people who elect them. | Constituency Casework |
| Government pojects aimed at legislators'constituencies, also called earmarks. | Pork Barrel |
| Legislators mutually supporting each other to be pork-barrel bills passed. | Log Rolling |
| Cabinet lacking firm majority in parliament. | Minority Government |
| System of strict racial segregation formerly practiced in South Africa. | Apartheid |
| Process by which the U.S. president is indicted by the House and tried by the Senate | Impeachment |
| The career civil service that staffs government executive agencies. | Bureaucracy |
| A bureaucracy pased on competitive exams rather than patronage. | Merit Civil Service |
| Law written by humans and accepted over time, the opposite of natural law. | Positive Law |
| Law that evolves over time through judicial precedent. | Common Law |
| Legal decisions based on earler decisions. | Precedent |
| Laws of the Roman Catholic Church | Canon Law |
| The liberal activist U.S. Supreme Court which broaden the rights of defendants. | Warren Court (Led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1953-1969) |
| The ability of a federal court to strike down executive acts or lawas as unconstitutional, established in the case of Marbury vs. Madison | Judicial Review |
| System of sergreationaist laws once standard in the U.S. | Jim Crow |
| U.S. Central bank that can raise and lower interest rates. | Federal Reserve Board |
| Combination of slow growth plus inflation in the U.S. economy in the 1970s. | Stagflation |
| U.S. federal expenditure by law such as Social Security and Medicare. | Entitlement |
| Programs limiting the duration of welfare payements and requiring recipients to work or get job training. | Workfare |
| From the french hit against the state. The extralegal takeover of government usually by the military. | Coup |
| Feeling by some groups that they are missing out on economic growth. | Relative Deprivation |
| Political use of violence to weaken a hated authority. | Terrorism |
| The changing of a country's political, economic, and social values, usually done violently. Groups that were out of power now control state and society. | Revolution |
| Relatively nonviolent mass uprisings that ousted Communist regimes such as in Czechoslovakia. | Velvet Revolution |
| Free flow of commerce across borders, making the world one big market. | Globalization |
| Policy of keeping out foreign goods to protect domestic producers. | Protectionism |
| A tax on an import | Tariff |
| System in which major nations form and reform alliances to protect themselves by keeping one nation from becoming too strong. | Balance of Power |
| An agreement among all nations to automatically counter an aggressor. | Collective Security |
| A general overall rise in prices. | Inflation |
| Period of Economic Decline. | Recession |
| U.S. Tendency to Minimize Importance of the Outside World. | Isolationism |
| The value of what a country exports compared to what it imports | Balance of Payments |
| A type of party system in which there are several parties but one party tended to win elections and control government. | Dominant Party System |
