Unit 3

  1. What is seperation of powers and levels of government?
    Seperation of powers is the seperation of government power into three branches in order to limit power, they are executive (P.M., proposes laws), legislative (passes laws) and judicial (enforce law). The three levels are municipal, provincial and federal.
  2. What is a parliamentary democracy?
    It is a democracy in which the leader of the party with the most seats becomes P.M.
  3. What is a constitutional monarchy?
    A form of government where the monarch is the head of state but their power is restricted by law.
  4. Whtat is a presidential democracy?
    A form of goverrnment that implements seperation of powers and the president/P.M. is the head of the executive branch.
  5. What was the five year plan?
    It was Stalin's plan to collectivize agriculture in Russia and promote heavy industry. It took five years.
  6. What is war communism?
    COmmunism used in 1918-21 during the war, by Vladmir Lenin.
  7. What is porportional respresentation?
    A system in which citizens vote directly for a party and then representatives are assigned based on the amount of votes.
  8. What is a responsible government?
    It is the branch of the government that proposes laws. The exec branch's law making is dependent on the support of the legislative.
  9. What is a secret ballot?
    It is when voter identity is secret.
  10. What is popular sovereignity?
    It is when the voice of people is the absolute authority.
  11. What is Dollar voting?
    Dollar voting is a theory that states consumer interest defines what products are created and not the producers.
  12. What is National socialism?
    It was the far right totalitarian rule expressed by Hitler and the Nazi's. It is a form of facism without democracy.
  13. What was the Holodomor and who were the Kulaks?
    It was the forceful starvation of 30 million Ukranians because of Stalins policies because he was scared of a Ukranian revolt. Kulak's were wealthy farmers who opposed collectivization and Stalin decided has to be eliminated first.
  14. What were the Vietnam War protests?
    They were protests by the Americans against the decision to engage in the Vietnam War.
  15. What is Affirmative Action?
    Policies by the government that seek to benefit minority groups in society.
  16. What is "First past the post"?
    It is a system in which candidates who pass a certain point in the race with the highest number of votes win.
  17. What is an Appropriation bill?
    A bill that authorizes government spending.
  18. What is Initiative?
    It is a means by which a pertiotion signed by a certain number of voters can force a public vote.
  19. What is a Representative democracy?
    A democracy in which people decide issues through elected officials who represent and make laws in their interest.
  20. What are Referendums/Plebiscites?
    They are when all citizens ay vote on whether to accept or reject a proposed piece of legislation.
  21. What is Recall?
    When the majority may choose to remove an elected official from power.
  22. What is Oligarchy?
    An oligarchy is when society is controlled by an elite segment who pass influence to their children.
  23. What is Nationalization?
    The transfer of a major industry from private to state control?
  24. What is keynesian economics, monetary and fiscal policy?
    • Keynesian economics is an economic system that calls for government intervention in The economy using monetary and fiscal policy. 
    • Fiscal policy (use of taxation to increase or decrease monies availible for investment) and Monetary policy (use interest rates to increase or decrease supply of money in the economy)
  25. What is the corporate state?
    A belief that corporates should govern society.
  26. Centralized vs. Decentralized decision making?
    Centralized decision making is done by a leader, a powerful individual (totalitarian). Decentralized decision making is done by a collective and their interests (democracy).
  27. Who was Adam Smith and the invisible hand?
    He is considered the father of capitalism and insisted individualism in a free market would strengthen the economy and benefit most. The invisible hand is an economic theory that states that a government  should create free markets as through supply in demand the economy will run itself.
  28. Who is John Reagan?
    He was an American politician his eco policy was reaganomics where he used the policies of the former presidents, deregulated free markets, trickle down and lower taxes in order to reduce inflation
  29. Who was Margaret Thatcher?
    She was a former prime minister of the Britain who implemented thatcherism (an economic system that promotes low inflation, the small state and free markets through tight control of money supply, privitization and constraints on the labour movement.
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