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Accountability the concept that public officials serve at the pleasure of
the citizens
countries that have well established democratic
Advanced Democracies
governments and a high level of economic
development
feel that the government should not exist and
that humans should live in a free system of
Anarchists natural selection and natural communities with no
regulation or leadership system; Anarchism—like
communism believes that private property and
capitalism
create inequality; like liberalism, Anarchism
places a high value on individual political
freedoms
Associational Group groups that support political contenders or become
contenders themselves
a system of governance in which political
Asymmetrical Federalism authority is shared between a central
government and regional or state governments,
but where some sub-national units in the federal
system have greater or lesser powers than
others.
A system of power of rule in which power
Authoritarian depends on popular legitimacy but on the
coercive force of political authorities; a regime
where decisions are made by
political elites without much input from citizens
Authority the legal right to exercise power
a territorial unit in the Soviet Union that was a
Autonomous Republics
constituent unit of the union republic within
, which it was located.
Bicameral two houses; a legislative assembly with two houses/parts
used to describe owners of factories and other
Bourgeoisie
means of production in the "The Communist
Manifesto"
a system of public administration; a hierarchical
Bureaucracy
organization charged with carrying out the
decisions of those who have political authority